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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692968147Author Kurt Louis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Hanscyrus LLCPublisher Hanscyrus LLCWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692675144Author Jeff JohnsonFormat PaperbackImprint Jeff JohnsonPublisher Jeff JohnsonWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692323403Author Alexis RykkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Nighthawk PressPublisher Nighthawk PressWeight(grams) 340g

The Pecos River flows snake-like out of New Mexico and across West Texas before striking the Rio Grande. In frontier Texas, the Pecos was more moat than river--a deadly barrier of quicksand, treacherous currents, and impossibly steep banks. Only at its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615916873Author Phaedra GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Nighthawk PressPublisher Nighthawk PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615737638Author Howard L SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Howard L. SmithPublisher Howard L. SmithWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595162109Author Joan F LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312275624Author Spike WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Through the distillation of a lifetime of experiences, John Hay describes in The Undiscovered Country his quiet, profound search for our place in the natural world. In considering snails, alewives, terns, woodland moths, and other forms of natural life,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395953860Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 197mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395953853Author Henry ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring.The twelve sheep have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129134875Author Ananda BanarjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Part nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach. A light, literary take on an animal...

In the tradition of Thoreau's Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own house and barn, puts in a garden and an orchard, acquires a milk cow, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258774Author Mary QuadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

The pivotal figure in John Elder's latest book - itself a combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir - is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded now as Americais first...

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot and her husband moved from New York City to a farm in western Pennsylvania thirty-five years ago with the hope that they could build a life and raise a family there. This collection of more than twenty essays documents what they...

Trail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the Outdoors is a collection of quotes, poetry, and passages from classic books that provide outdoor inspiration to those in the woods, on the mountain, beside the water, or at home. Featured throughout the book is a pantheon...

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Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists investigate the ecosystem's trees, wildlife, water, and...

This is a charming series of essays on animal behavior, written in 1951 by the note British science writer Frank W. Lane, reveals obscure and fascinating oddities of animal behavior. The clear, logical explanation behind each bizarre happening grounds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578264698Author Sylvia JorrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 306g

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Paid in Sunsets: The Making of a National Park Ranger is the story of one park ranger's journey from Gettysburg to Denali and back, raising a family, contending with bears, and rescuing hikers, in four national parks over more than 30 years. Interspersed...

A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America's Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find...

How people perceive wetlands has always played a crucial role in determining how people act toward them. In this account, Hugh Prince examines literary evidence as well as government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes...

In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago's landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In "Of Prairie, Woods,...

Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, award-winning...

Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction AwardWarm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defining moments in the life of novelist and essayist Theresa Kishkan. For Kishkan, trees are memory markers of...

There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which inevitably accompany any attempt to break free of the ties...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894898492Author Anny ScoonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and...

As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty...

The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the many extant books on John Muir. Building on her lifelong...

This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after ""Walden"". First appearing in the 1840s, through to the 1860s, the essays were written during a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486832371Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

A Sportsman's Journey lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald C. Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America's Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171564Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other.In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and...