Chaga
King of the Medicinal Mushrooms
Written by David Wolfe
Contribution by Pierre Beaumier and Ramiz Saad
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $15.95
Taking the counsel of Hippocrates—"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"—acclaimed author David Wolfe brings the wisdom of eating herbal medicine to today's health-conscious readers. His enthusiastic fan base, which includes celebrities such as Woody Harrelson and Angela Bassett, continues to blossom as more and more people realize...
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Close to Shore
The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Written by Michael Capuzzo
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2002
Price: $14.95
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative,
Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
During the summer before the United States entered...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 992 pages
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $24.95
The first and only field guide to offer comprehensive coverage of the African continent, this guide sends the reader on a virtual safari. All the birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects are brought to life, and the parks and reserves for which the continent is famous are described in thorough detail. This...
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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...
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World
An Identification Guide
Written by Paul Stamets
Foreword by Andrew Weil
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $32.50
From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their long-standing (and often religious) use by ancient peoples and their continued significance...
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American Buffalo
In Search of a Lost Icon
Written by Steven Rinella
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.”A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a...
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The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers...
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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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