Unbowed
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $16.00

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through... Read more >

The Wild Trees
A Story of Passion and Daring
Written by Richard Preston

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $16.00

Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of... Read more >

National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Southwestern States
Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: September 21, 1999
Price: $19.95

Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States belongs in the home of every resident of the Southwest and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor.  This compact volume contains:

An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms... Read more >

Sibley's Birding Basics

Written by David Allen Sibley

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $15.95

“I wrote and illustrated this book to help every inquisitive birder, from novice to expert. Whether you can identify six birds or six hundred, you’ll be a better birder if you have a grounding in the real nuts and bolts of what birds look like, and your skills will be even... Read more >

The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $32.50

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >

Dirt Work
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
 
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready...

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Swan
Poems and Prose Poems
Written by Mary Oliver

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $14.00

“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so...

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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to New England

Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $19.95

Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England belongs in the home of every New England resident and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:

An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the region's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses... Read more >

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees--W
Western Region
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: June 12, 1980
Price: $19.95

All 933 identification pictures are full-color photos of significant details of virtually all native trees and many cultivated species as you see them in their natural habitat. Read more >

Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.95

A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by Science, has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with...

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