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Daddy Long Legs
The Natural Education of a Father
Written by John Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“If David Sedaris and Annie Dillard had a literary love child and raised him in Iowa, he would write like this.”—The Iowan
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children... Read more >
The Natural Education of a Father
Written by John Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“If David Sedaris and Annie Dillard had a literary love child and raised him in Iowa, he would write like this.”—The Iowan
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children... Read more >
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Hunger Mountain
A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
Written by David Hinton
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.00
Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont—excursions informed by the worldview he’s imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape... Read more >
A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
Written by David Hinton
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.00
Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont—excursions informed by the worldview he’s imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape... Read more >
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Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Written by Jim Sterba
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Written by Jim Sterba
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless...
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Nature Wars
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Written by Jim Sterba
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $12.99
The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Written by Jim Sterba
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $12.99
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
LISTENING POINT
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 242 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space... Read more >
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 242 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space... Read more >
Lonely Land
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $13.99
The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but... Read more >
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $13.99
The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but... Read more >
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Of Time and Place
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 172 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $13.99
Of Time and Place is a legacy from one of the best-loved woodsman writers of our time. To the outdoorsmen who often canoed and portaged with him through the northern Lake country, Sigurd Olson was affectionately known as the Bourgeois—the name that voyageurs gave two hundred years ago to the trusted... Read more >
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 172 pages
On Sale: July 4, 2012
Price: $13.99
Of Time and Place is a legacy from one of the best-loved woodsman writers of our time. To the outdoorsmen who often canoed and portaged with him through the northern Lake country, Sigurd Olson was affectionately known as the Bourgeois—the name that voyageurs gave two hundred years ago to the trusted... Read more >
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Singing Wilderness
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 245 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $10.99
to do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silences of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many... Read more >
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 245 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $10.99
to do with the calling of loons, with northern lights, and the great silences of land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life which is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many... Read more >
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Reflections from the North Country
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on... Read more >
Written by Sigurd F Olson
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
Written in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on... Read more >
Nature and Walking
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $13.00
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature. Read more >
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $13.00
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Nature Stories
Written by Jules Renard
Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 14, 2011
Price: $14.95
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters... Read more >
Written by Jules Renard
Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 14, 2011
Price: $14.95
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
About This Life
Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $14.99
The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man.
With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez established himself as that rare writer... Read more >
Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $14.99
The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man.
With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez established himself as that rare writer... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Driving Home
An American Journey
Written by Jonathan Raban
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $29.95
An American Journey
Written by Jonathan Raban
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $29.95
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America. Spanning two decades, Driving Home...
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The Immense Journey
An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
Written by Loren Eiseley
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $8.99
Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
Written by Loren Eiseley
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $8.99
Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
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Lost Woods
The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Written by Rachel Carson
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2011
Price: $23.00
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life... Read more >
The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Written by Rachel Carson
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2011
Price: $23.00
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Holding the Center
Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion
Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $14.95
As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of Heckler’s lessons arise from his life... Read more >
Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion
Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $14.95
As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of Heckler’s lessons arise from his life... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Insectopedia
Written by Hugh Raffles
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
Written by Hugh Raffles
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not...
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Walden
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Read by Lloyd James
Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $18.00
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books... Read more >
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Read by Lloyd James
Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $18.00
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books... Read more >
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The Laws of Nature
Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Walt McLaughlin
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.95
Though written in the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, particularly his nature writing, speaks to contemporary sensibilities. The uniquely American, nature-based philosophy commonly attributed to Thoreau was first presented to the world by Emerson in his slender volume Nature and later developed by both men, each with his own distinct... Read more >
Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Walt McLaughlin
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.95
Though written in the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, particularly his nature writing, speaks to contemporary sensibilities. The uniquely American, nature-based philosophy commonly attributed to Thoreau was first presented to the world by Emerson in his slender volume Nature and later developed by both men, each with his own distinct... Read more >
Insectopedia
Written by Hugh Raffles
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2010
Price: $13.99
Written by Hugh Raffles
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2010
Price: $13.99
A New York Times Notable Book
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Written by Mike O'Connor
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of... Read more >
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Written by Mike O'Connor
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
Poems and Essays
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit... Read more >
Poems and Essays
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit... Read more >
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Insectopedia
Written by Hugh Raffles
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $29.95
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
For as long as humans have existed, insects have existed, too. Wherever we’ve traveled, they’ve traveled, too. Yet we hardly know them, not... Read more >
Written by Hugh Raffles
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $29.95
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
For as long as humans have existed, insects have existed, too. Wherever we’ve traveled, they’ve traveled, too. Yet we hardly know them, not... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Thoreau and the Art of Life
Reflections on Nature and the Mystery of Existence
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Roderick MacIver
Illustrated by Roderick MacIver
Format: Trade Paperback, 116 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $16.95
Featuring nearly 100 luminous watercolor illustrations, Thoreau and the Art of Life collects eloquent passages from the writings of the seminal author and philosopher. Drawn mainly from his journals, the short excerpts provide fascinating insight into his thought processes by presenting his raw, unedited feelings about the things that meant the... Read more >
Reflections on Nature and the Mystery of Existence
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Roderick MacIver
Illustrated by Roderick MacIver
Format: Trade Paperback, 116 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $16.95
Featuring nearly 100 luminous watercolor illustrations, Thoreau and the Art of Life collects eloquent passages from the writings of the seminal author and philosopher. Drawn mainly from his journals, the short excerpts provide fascinating insight into his thought processes by presenting his raw, unedited feelings about the things that meant the... Read more >
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Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
Written by Kathleen Dean Moore
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in... Read more >
The Solace of Nature
Written by Kathleen Dean Moore
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in... Read more >
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