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Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, Guardian Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. What does it mean to be out walking in the world,... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and... -
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Collins Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9780007925292
RRP: $6.28$4.91HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,... -
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies by Dewey W. Hall 9781498518031
RRP: $96.60$84.74Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and... -
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
RRP: $18.88$12.64'A lovely little book ... quietly lyrical, often funny and gently persuasive' Sunday Times 'Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading it' Jeff VanderMeer We've all... -
Hardy, Conrad and the Senses by Hugh Epstein 9781474449878
RRP: $54.58$44.23This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. With a focus on nature and the environment, Hugh Epstein analyses thirteen of these powerful works in the... -
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt 9781529114478
RRP: $23.08$16.32A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.'Beautiful' Colm Toibin'Rapturous' New York Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Stunning' Sunday TimesWhen Sean meets... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson 9780198798743
RRP: $25.18$17.70In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands... -
Global Literature and the Environment Matthew Whittle 9780367373689
RRP: $73.48$64.79Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of... -
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by Marta McDowell
RRP: $41.98$28.33"Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography." -The Wall Street JournalNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has... -
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
RRP: $25.18$21.32An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written-grown-a radiant and... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas
RRP: $27.28$19.09How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of... -
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs 9780008605377
RRP: $27.28$17.47A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy). 'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas 9780198835400
RRP: $31.48$28.25"This is the finest kind of travel: not just across continents, but through time, space and our infinite minds. The journey is the joy, and Emily Thomas a terrific guide." - Mike Parker How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the... -
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare Sally Weintrobe (Psychoanalyst, The Institute of Psychoanalysis , UK) 9781501372865
RRP: $48.28$39.65Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also... -
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books by Alex Preston
RRP: $31.48$9.89'Delightful . . . an original look at the literature inspired by Britain's birdlife' the Guardian, Best Nature Books of 2017'[The] pages light up with feathered magic' Evening StandardWhen Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence... -
The Last of the Light: About Twilight by Peter Davidson 9781780238272
RRP: $33.50$24.34This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: $39.88$28.58The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
The Dream Of The Earth Thomas Berry 9781619025325
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025325Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture by Mark Bould
$27.76The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth - is to be found... -
Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel by Anna Burton 9780367747916
RRP: $83.98$73.63This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of... -
The Sea by David Farrell Krell 9781350080539
$56.66Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is... -
Emile Zola: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Nelson 9780198837565
RRP: $18.88$13.55Emile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways... -
The concept of nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt
RRP: $37.78$36.83In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this... -
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction by David Farrier 9781517906269
RRP: $37.78$33.39How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system... -
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel Sherrell
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136538Author Daniel SherrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Love Language of Flowers by Jess Buttermore 9781684811915
RRP: $65.08$42.42A Fresh Twist on Vintage Flower Meanings & Arrangements"This book is enchanting to the eyes, inspiring for the mind, and refreshing for the soul." -Maggie Hyde, Petal Back Farm#1 New Release in Plant & Animal Photography, Photograpy Equipment &... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: $35.60$29.09Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others... -
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science John MacNeill Miller 9780813951775
$201.54Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of different disciplines, John... -
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science John MacNeill Miller 9780813951782
$59.87Traces the roots of this branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew on a shared set of literary techniques to imagine how different species could work together as a... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities Scott Slovic 9781350304543
$84.19Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: · Represents the... -
Media Ecologies of Literature Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp 9781501383915
$61.64This book explores the media ecologies of literature – the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951621
$212.00A critical examination of the ‘agricultural trap’ in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled, itinerant life of hunting and gathering appeared, to many,... -
Reading Underwater Wreckage: An Encrusting Ocean Killian Quigley 9781350290006
$61.64Presenting a novel and needed theoretical model for interpreting shipwrecks and other drowned fragments—the histories they tell, and the futures they presage—as junctures of artefact and ecofact, human remains and emergent ecologies, this book puts the... -
Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition: Writing to Save the World by Joseph R. Lease 9781498528849
RRP: $73.50$65.00Now more than ever—in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about sustainability is greater than it ever has been... -
Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water by Ursula Kluwick 9780813950976
$218.97Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal... -
Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature: Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality by Steven Petersheim 9781498581196
RRP: $73.50$65.00A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that... -
Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination by Danette DiMarco 9781666901832
RRP: $63.00$56.03Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowledge. This book contains fifteen innovative essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and... -
The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene by Michael J. Gormley 9781498594073
RRP: $63.00$56.03In The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines literary imaginings of the Anthropocene’s end and the Astropocene’s beginning—when humans are no longer bound to the blue planet on...