Essays

In The Paradise Notebooks, Richard Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact. Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle...

From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703133Author Outside Magazine EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061859373Author Philip ConnorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

From the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined.From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892725106Author Sy MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Down East Books,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316735889Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 146mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Books for a Better Life Book Award 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781623363857Author Nathanael JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rodale Press Inc...

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration...

When Richard Ryder coined the term 'speciesism' over two decades ago, the issue of animal rights was very much a minority concern that had associations with crankiness. Today, the animal rights movement is well-established across the globe and continues...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What...

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'A generous book, offering the small stories - of childhood, family, place, of growth and falling away and regrowth - that enable the big connections with the flow of the world.' - Mark Goldthorpe, Climate Cultures 'A meander through the seasons that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091757Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395967010Author Sue HubbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 249g

*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 5 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of practice: What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong...

A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs anthologies, this volume celebrates the surprising range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968736Author Richardson WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

A special edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of the environmental movement-plus original photographs and other writings on environmental ethicsSince his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable...

"What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is-an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and seeing which are fast vanishing."-Robert Macfarlane,...

The Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs-a legacy of government regulation over Indigenous life. Corinna Cook, who was born white on Aak'w...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682753408Author Bob BuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 285gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From butterflies and hummingbirds to narwhal and leopards, Naming Nature celebrates our wondrous natural world by exploring the language we use to describe it. Take elephants, for instance. African languages often focus on the power of the animal; Tswana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217086061Author Elizabeth KolbertFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358561203Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash BooksWeight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871143037Author Guy MaynardFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint University of Oregon PressPublisher University of Oregon PressDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714498Author Mary PaetzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityWeight(grams)...

An engaging new volume by the author of Letters from Side Lake and Seeing the Raven.A Native American proverb states that "yesterday is ashes, tomorrow is wood, only today does the fire burn brightly." This series of essays, set in the north woods of...

Witty and reflective author Leschak recreates his experience of the northern Minnesota landscape.Paperback copy:The story of a life in Minnesota's north woods-now in paperback!In Seeing the Raven, Peter M. Leschak blends humor, philosophy, and a keen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715532Author David OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

A journey into the soul of the coldest season.The locus of Jim dale Huot-Vickery's life is a remote cabin in the northern wilderness of Minnesota's Boundary Waters region. More often than not, it is winter here, a fierce, beautiful season that dominates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849356084Author Dani BurlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999809058Author Robert MacfarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Wellcome CollectionPublisher Wellcome Collection

An important collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the effects of ranching on the environment. Acclaimed nature writer Linda M. Hasselstrom sees herself as a rancher who writes-a...

An engaging, well-illustrated natural and cultural history of the oldest living organism-the bristlecone pine. Since Edmund Schulman discovered in 1958 that individual bristlecones live nearly 5,000 years, the trees have been investigated primarily for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963108088Author A. Kendra GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Tin HousePublisher Tin HouseWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 148mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816520046Format PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643264790Author Tove JanssonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Timber Press (OR)Publisher Timber Press (OR)Weight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555663742Author Pat HaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House