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  • Last Water on the Devil's Highway

    A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas

    by Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary Paul Nabhan, Mary Charlotte Thurtle ...
    Series series Southwest Center Series
    The Devil’s Highway—El Camino del Diablo—crosses hundreds of miles and thousands of years of Arizona and Southwest history. This heritage trail follows a torturous route along the U.S. Mexico border through a lonely landscape of cactus, desert flats, drifting sand dunes, ancient lava flows, and searing summer heat. The most famous waterhole along the way is Tinajas Altas, or High Tanks, a series ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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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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  • Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Expeditions and Encounters

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "A collection of meditations like polished stones — painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." — Kirkus ReviewsHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.Veering away from the long, meditative ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature

    A Michael Roads Reader

    by Michael Roads ...
    Michael Roads had always been close to nature, but when a river started talking to him, he began to doubt his sanity. A series of encounters with the natural world followed, and Roads began to listen and let go. He found himself led stage by stage to a final wisdom, remarkable in its simplicity and in its message of hope for humanity. This book, a bind-up of his two best-known works, beautifully ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

    Edited by Amy Stewart ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This anthology collects some of the year's best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more.As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, "science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of the day, we're all writers. We're just like novelists, ... Read more

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  • The Shape of the Journey

    New & Collected Poems

    by Jim Harrison ...
    Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers-now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling "correspondence" with a dead Russian poet in Letters to Yesenin. Also included is an ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • 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

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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

    $11.99 USD

  • Walden

    A Library of America Paperback Classic

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A special edition of “the most remarkable book in the American canon”—Thoreau’s timeless ode to the beauty of a life lived simply and among nature (Bill McKibben)In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once the record of the twenty-six months ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Things That Are

    Essays

    by Amy Leach ...
    Essays by a Whiting Award winner: "Like a descendant of Lewis Carroll and Emily Dickinson . . . one of the most exciting and original writers in America." —Yiyun Li, author of Must I GoThings That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far-flung ... Read more

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  • Home and Away

    More Tales of a Heritage Farm

    by Anny Scoones ...
    In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away, Anny presents more stories about the joys and sorrows, excitements and mishaps and also takes readers farther afield, sharing with them her travels to other parts of Canada, to New York and to such places as Malaysia and Belarus. Her travel tales ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • 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

    $8.69 USD