Essays

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Evans Biography and Handcart Award 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781611804591Author Michael P. BranchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Roost...

These timeless, beautifully written essays share encounters and observations on a variety of Alaskan wildlife and include natural history information. In these essays about Alaska's best-known and most charismatic animals-grizzlies and wolves, moose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516932Author John A. McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 181g

Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller's...

The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942--2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the...

"If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some of the boundaries between you and it dissolve," writes Susan Hand Shetterly in her introduction to these...

Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change...

Noted nature writer Ted Williams invites readers along on a year-long immersion in the wild and fleeting moments of the natural world, from winter candy and spring quackers to summer's scarlet farewell and autumn reveilles. This beautifully crafted...

Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising...

Fall under the spell of Florida's natural environmentIn this captivating collection, Florida's most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state. Continuing in the legacy of the beloved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988592565Author Jillian SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

"Making Hay takes one of the least common denominators in rural American life and gives it real glory. Klinkenborg is funny, learned, elegant, and accurate every single minute."--Thomas McGuane "Klinkenborg is our modern Thoreau."-Tom Brokaw "A...

Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this...

From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir about the joy and restorative power of your own garden.The perfect gift for the gardener in your life, Spring Rain is "a tonic for the soul" (Sy Montgomery)...

The Last Speaker of Bear is the patchwork story of a life spent traveling in the north from Alaska to Siberia. Lawrence Millman first visited northern Canada as a child and has spent four decades since on some thirty-five expeditions in search of...

A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author's experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816522491Author Gary Paul NabhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 235g

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The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807098134Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 4 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of interpersonal relations: Which experiences expand our...

In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312254155Author Jerry DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524630Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself crawling through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees...

Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The...

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Describing encounters and missed encounters with the wildlife that surrounds the Teifi, Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest and tender tribute to the many creatures - both in the garden and beyond the garden wall - that bring joy to Carly's...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955140041Author Richard J NevleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Samara PressPublisher Samara PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 173mm *...

From a young age Carly Holmes has been in thrall to the creatures that live around us. Her childhood companion was a blind gander called Beep Beep who thought she was his wife. She nearly postponed her wedding when a pair of wrens nested in a hole by her...

In the Ohio counties of the Alleghany Plateau, 9th-century barns hewn from old-growth wood rest near remnant forests, reminders of the state's deep agricultural roots and rich ecological past. Through fourteen linked, meditative essays, Deborah Fleming,...

What does a good long ramble in the woods tell us about our shared experiences, our loneliness. Is it possible to shed our civilized layers of defensive behavior, our fear of unmasking and discovery, of the unknown or once-known and forgotten? Join...

Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645472759Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647791957Author Don LagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint University of Nevada PressPublisher University of Nevada PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639551262Author Kerri Ni DochartaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions