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Desert Places eBook Series

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  • The Painted Desert

    Land of Wind and Stone

    by Scott Thybony ...
    Series series Desert Places
    Most people who are familiar with the Painted Desert of northeastern Arizona know it only from having pulled off at the Petrified Forest exit on Interstate 40. If they happen to come by it at midday, as most do, they find a landscape drained of color and flattened under the direct sunlight.But this remote pocket of the Arizona desert, sandwiched between the Little Colorado River on one side and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Letters to My Grandchildren

    by David Suzuki ...
    In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us - to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, and failure are important; why it is dangerous to deny our biological nature; and why First ... Read more

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  • Crossing Open Ground

    by Barry Lopez ...
    National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays.In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

    A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

    by Christopher Cokinos ...
    A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species. ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Eye in the Thicket

    Edited by Seán Virgo ...
    The essays in this inaugural volume were commissioned from a number of outstanding writers (many of them national prize winners). Some are professional naturalists, others are poets, filmmakers, dancers, philosophers, activists. All write with passion, originality and humour about the natural world, our place within it, and our impact upon it. The Eye in the Thicket reminds us of the tradition ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Moon By Whale Light

    And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

    by Diane Ackerman ...
    In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Beyond Your Doorstep

    A Handbook to the Country

    by Hal Borland ...
    The inspiring classic on the virtues of embracing the great outdoors from the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay.Over the course of his career, Hal Borland wrote eight nature books and hundreds of "outdoor editorials" for the Sunday New York Times, extolling the virtues of the countryside. From his home on one hundred acres in rural Connecticut, Borland wrote of the natural ... Read more

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  • The Home Place

    Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

    by J. Drew Lanham ...
    "A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful."—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkA Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award WinnerIn me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.Dating back to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Living at the End of Time

    Two Years in a Tiny House

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John Hanson Mitchell tells how he set out to recreate Henry David Thoreau’s two years at Walden Pond in a replica of Thoreau’s cabin. Mitchell lived off the grid, without running water or electricity, in a tiny house not half a mile from a major highway and in the shadow of a massive new computer company. Nevertheless, his contact with wildlife, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Moon and Sun

    Essays on Nature

    Edited by Allan Forrie ...
    Canada is a vast country defined by its untamed wilderness, diverse ecologies, and natural beauty. It is a country associated with nature and exploration on the most fundamental level, whose people each have a story to tell of their experiences with the landscape. With Moon and Sun: Essays on Nature, Thistledown Press brings readers a series of intimate encounters from Canadian writers who have ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cultivating an Ecological Conscience

    Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

    by Frederick L. Kirschenmann ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    "[A] superb collection of essays . . . one of the wisest, sanest, most practical, and most trusted voices in the movement to reform the American food system." —Michael Pollan, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This is Your Mind on PlantsTheologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agricultural thinker who has tirelessly promoted the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intimate Bond

    How Animals Shaped Human History

    by Brian Fagan ...
    Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna. Brian Fagan unfolds this fascinating story from the first wolf who wandered ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD