Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages On Sale: March 9, 2004 Price: $16.00 Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 978-0-375-72517-3 (0-375-72517-2)
Mike Tidwell knew nothing of the disappearing bayou country when he first visited the Cajun coast of Louisiana, but the evidence was all around him: the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, whole cemeteries sinking into swampland and out of sight, telephone poles in deep, standing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages On Sale: May 28, 2002 Price: $16.00 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 978-0-375-76039-6 (0-375-76039-3)
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages On Sale: April 18, 2006 Price: $12.95 Publisher: Steerforth ISBN: 978-1-58642-106-9 (1-58642-106-9)
We are the river, and the river is us. We carry the same chemicals; pesticides and heavy metals, antibiotics and estrogen in our bloodstreams. From the Mekong River in Vietnam, where he served as platoon leader during the Vietnam War, to the Connecticut River near his farm in St. Johnsbury, Vermont...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages On Sale: June 13, 2006 Price: $14.95 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 978-0-8129-7608-3 (0-8129-7608-8)
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages On Sale: July 9, 2002 Price: $15.95 Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 978-0-375-72778-8 (0-375-72778-7)
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages On Sale: June 19, 2007 Price: $13.95 Publisher: Three Rivers Press ISBN: 978-0-307-38135-4 (0-307-38135-8)
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages On Sale: September 29, 1992 Price: $14.95 Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 978-0-679-74226-5 (0-679-74226-3)
In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages On Sale: March 30, 1999 Price: $14.95 Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 978-0-679-75846-4 (0-679-75846-1)
Updated Edition—Ten Years Later
The scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife. When a pair of red-tailed...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages On Sale: September 1, 1992 Price: $13.95 Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 978-0-679-74024-7 (0-679-74024-4)
This is the story of one Mormon woman's quest for solace, without and within, as a bird sanctuary near her home is flooded by the rising waters of the Great Salt Lake and as her mother contends with cancer caused by the atomic tests conducted in Utah in the 1950s.
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages On Sale: January 6, 2004 Price: $15.95 Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 978-0-385-48226-4 (0-385-48226-4)
“The wolves of North America have their Jane Goodall, and her name is Renée Askins…. An eloquent plea for nature unrestrained.” —Outside Magazine
“Delightful…fun to read. The seamless way Askins weaves the natural world into her narrative brings to mind Terry Tempest Williams’s memoir Refuge.” —The New York Times Book Review