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The Salt Stones

Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWinner of the Vermont Book AwardA New Yorker Best Book of the YearFeatured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHourA Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close... ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWinner of the Vermont Book AwardA New Yorker Best Book of the YearFeatured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHourA Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close...
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Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

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In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that "belonging more than anything requires participation" and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the field and Whybrow becomes a ... Read more

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In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that "belonging more than anything requires participation" and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the field and Whybrow becomes a
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A Man Apart

Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living

by Peter Forbes, Helen Whybrow ...

A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better worldA Man Apart is the story—part family memoir and part biography—of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow’s longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine and understand their own.Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to nature and in opposition to ... Read more

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A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better worldA Man Apart is the story—part family memoir and part biography—of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow’s longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine and understand their own.Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to nature and in opposition to
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Tiny Worlds

A Field Guide to Small Wonders

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Through luminous prose, Tiny Worlds invites us to consider what we might learn about connection, belonging, and repair by attending to the very small.In Tiny Worlds, author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder seeks a different way to grapple with the enormity of the changing natural world: by narrowing the lens, and gazing at familiar artifacts of home through a microscope. Chelsea examines curious objects ... Read more

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Through luminous prose, Tiny Worlds invites us to consider what we might learn about connection, belonging, and repair by attending to the very small.In Tiny Worlds, author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder seeks a different way to grapple with the enormity of the changing natural world: by narrowing the lens, and gazing at familiar artifacts of home through a microscope. Chelsea examines curious objects
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Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is
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Eating Dirt

Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

by Charlotte Gill ...

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• Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our ... Read more

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• Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our
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On Trails

An Exploration

by Robert Moor ...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the
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Life Safari

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From the author of the #1 bestseller The Why Café, comes this much anticipated next work. An inspiring and emotionally powerful story set amidst the mystery, beauty, and allure of Africa.Jack is a young man struggling to find happiness in his life. Although he doesn’t know why, the one image that seems to capture his soul is that of Africa. With solitary focus, he saves for two years and then ... Read more

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From the author of the #1 bestseller The Why Café, comes this much anticipated next work. An inspiring and emotionally powerful story set amidst the mystery, beauty, and allure of Africa.Jack is a young man struggling to find happiness in his life. Although he doesn’t know why, the one image that seems to capture his soul is that of Africa. With solitary focus, he saves for two years and then
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Wilder Journeys

True Stories of Nature, Adventure and Connection

Edited by Laurie King, Miriam Lancewood ...

Environmental writer Laurie King and internationally bestselling author Miriam Lancewood present a collection of narrative non-fiction stories and poems on the human connection with nature.Follow the call of the wild with these incredible true stories from an international group of nature lovers, nomads and adventurers.In these pages, you are invited to share the wisdom they gained on their wild ... Read more

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Environmental writer Laurie King and internationally bestselling author Miriam Lancewood present a collection of narrative non-fiction stories and poems on the human connection with nature.Follow the call of the wild with these incredible true stories from an international group of nature lovers, nomads and adventurers.In these pages, you are invited to share the wisdom they gained on their wild
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The Ground Beneath Us

From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are

by Paul Bogard ...

From growth and life to death and loss, and from city-running technology to the dwindling idyllic Edens that remain, this is the story of our earth's soil.When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to our food supply, the planet's wildlife, the soil on which every life-form depends? ... Read more

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From growth and life to death and loss, and from city-running technology to the dwindling idyllic Edens that remain, this is the story of our earth's soil.When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to our food supply, the planet's wildlife, the soil on which every life-form depends?
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The Road Is How

A Prairie Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire and Soul

by Trevor Herriot ...

Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of waiting for his body to heal. The Road is How re-enchants our modern map of desire, spirit and nature by taking us on a three-day walk down an ordinary prairie road. Detouring along ... Read more

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Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of waiting for his body to heal. The Road is How re-enchants our modern map of desire, spirit and nature by taking us on a three-day walk down an ordinary prairie road. Detouring along
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The Age of Deer

Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

by Erika Howsare ...

**Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardFinalist for the Library of Virginia People’s Choice AwardsFinalist for the Virginia Literary AwardsA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer—from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination—and invites readers to contemplate ... Read more

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**Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardFinalist for the Library of Virginia People’s Choice AwardsFinalist for the Virginia Literary AwardsA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer—from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination—and invites readers to contemplate
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