Nature:

Flora Mirabilis
How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Written by Catherine H. Howell
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction by Douglas Holland

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

Flora Mirabilis is a sumptuously designed showcase of superb illustrations paired with fascinating stories of botanical exploration and trade through the ages. A collaboration between National Geographic and the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden, this book will prove an evergreen source of delight, not just for gardeners and flower aficionados, but for... Read more >

Pharmako/Dynamis
Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft
Written by Dale Pendell

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2009
Price: $35.00

This is the second volume of North Atlantic Books’ hard cover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a... Read more >

Pharmako/Gnosis
Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
Written by Dale Pendell

Format: Hardcover, 398 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2009
Price: $35.00

This is the third and final volume of North Atlantic Books’ hard cover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader... Read more >

Pharmako/Poeia
Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Written by Dale Pendell
Foreword by Gary Snyder

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2009
Price: $35.00

This is the first volume of North Atlantic Books’ hardcover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a unique... Read more >

Heirloom
Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Written by Tim Stark

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.00

Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.

Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories... Read more >

Edible
An Illustrated Guide to the World's Food Plants
Written by National Geographic

Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $40.00

A natural choice for the millions of people turning to a healthier lifestyle, this book invites readers on a sumptuously illustrated walk through the world garden to discover the story of some 250 food plants from field to table. Illustrated with more than 500 images and written by top international horticultural... Read more >

National Geographic Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine

Written by Steven Foster and Rebecca Johnson

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $24.00

For millennia, humans have looked to nature for remedies to ailments great and small. Long before formal science enabled us to take a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of dozens of diseases, and treat complaints of every kind. And today, countless people still... Read more >

Planet Ocean
Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm
Written by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
Introduction by Jean-Michel Cousteau

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $40.00

Spanning the vast range of Earth's marine environments, from Greenland to the Polynesian Islands, Planet Ocean reveals hidden landscapes of unsurpassed beauty and awe. These fascinating undersea worlds occupy more than three quarters of the globe, and their natural richness is the source of all life—yet they are still poorly understood... Read more >

In the Land of the Blue Poppies
The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward
Written by Frank Kingdon Ward
Preface by Jamaica Kincaid
Edited by Tom Christopher

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2003
Price: $19.00

A Modern Library Paperback Original

During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. He was responsible for the discovery of numerous varieties... Read more >

The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00

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... Read more >

The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $16.00

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant — thought this time the obsessions revolves around... Read more >