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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878397099Author Douglas WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint North Star Press of Saint Cloud IncPublisher North Star Press of Saint Cloud...

In his powerful memoir Where the Wind Dreams of Staying, Eric Dieterle captures the emotional storms of a boy, and then a man, who seeks meaning in a place, or a place with meaning. His restless search for purpose and identity in the American West moves...

"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately...

Bil Gilbert is one of America's most preeminent and popular essayists and nature writers. If you've ever opened a copy of Smithsonian, Audubon, or Sports Illustrated magazines, you've likely come across an article by Gilbert. In the past four decades,...

In Green Laurels, Donald Culross Peattie combines his extensive knowledge of history's foremost naturalists with his personal observations about the subject to form what the New York Herald Tribune calls "a delightful book...one would not wish to miss on...

A River Without Banks chronicles one family's journey to Idaho, with all of its uncertainties, promises, and hopes. The book explores their encounters with a place still partly wild, whose communities and landscapes teach them how to respect the earth...

More than a region on a map, North America's vast grasslands are an enduring place in the American heart. Unfolding along and beyond the Mississippi River, the tallgrass prairie has entranced and inspired its natives and newcomers as well as American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733547406Author David MuirheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Powers SquaredPublisher Catalyst Books

Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, family, and place, it begins with his honeymoon on a wine farm in France's Loire Valley and closes with...

Dead Reckoning examines accidents and close calls in outdoor recreation settings ranging from hiking to sea kayaking to backcountry skiing. Following the long tradition of learning from accident analysis, Emma Walker looks closely at hers and others'...

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and...

By an early age, Robert Michael Pyle discovered that he had a greater facility with words than with numbers. In high school, he found he could get good grades and win essay contests by relying on words alone. But he wasn't really moved to write until a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870711152Author Steven L. RadosevichFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874215663Author Greg GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Stories of the challenges and thrills of life in the North WoodsIn these fascinating tales, Sam Cook captures the remote and beautiful North Woods, examining how this dramatic and forbidding landscape shapes his life and the lives of other people who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011680Author John James AudubonFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

The Western approach to nature has always operated under both spiritual and scientific views. While Christianity decrees that human beings have dominion over nature, evolutionary biology teaches us that we are but highly adapted animals among a...

American environmental literature characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But conservation-minded authors have often been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental preservation. John...

Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world's top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery. A Mail on Sunday "Critic's Pick" Best Read of the Year "In their writing and in...

A new voice reveals the unique character of the upper MidwestIn the spirit of other writers who share an affinity for the natural world---authors such as Robert Frost, Emerson, and Bill Bryson---Looking for Hickories is Tom Springer's ode to the people,...

As well as fun and relaxation, cottage living throughout the seasons is a reminder that all of us, even the most urbanized individual, are part of the natural world. Listen carefully and you will hear cottage country whispering lessons that can make our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486823980Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm)...

Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionFrom the first sentence, "I come from a long line of river people," to the last, "Bad luck to kill a moose bird," Wayne Curtis signals that this book occupies the territory of a classic, a lyrical memoir...

It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high-a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242841Author Barry LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639550623Author Kerri Ni DochartaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Personal, poetic and profound reflections on the natural ocean system.Reviews"Big governments, big economies, and big polluters are coming to the realization that the Blue-Green recovery is the smart choice. With the UN Decade of Ocean Science for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948814089Author Zak PodmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935437461Author Robert K MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bartleby PressPublisher Bartleby PressWeight(grams) 453gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm...

Winter is the season that most tests our mettle. There are the obvious challenges of the weather-freezing rain, wind chill, deep snow, dangerous ice-but also the psychological burdens of waiting for spring and the enduring often false starts that...

Nestled in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, Sabino Canyon demonstrates the beauty and resiliency of life in what many would assume to be a most inhospitable place. For thousands of visitors each year, this oasis in the Sonoran Desert...

Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep ...For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, pot shards, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan...

As she did in Appalachian Spring and Appalachian Autumn, Bonta offers a day-by-day account of the natural life of one place--her 648-acre property in south central Pennsylvania. In Appalachian Summer, Bonta's first grandchild spends her first summer on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682753224Author Joseph BruchacFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 226gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Lizards dashing rapidly between plants. Songbirds and woodpeckers flying to and from their nests. Hawks perched on saguaros. What kinds of journeys have these and many other animals and plants and their ancestors taken in space and time to arrive in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555663254Author Edward RaventonFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

As Steven Meyers writes, an odyssey need not involve a long journey, simply a profound one. First drawn to Lime Creek for its fly fishing, this stream serves as Meyers's muse in seven transcendent essays that explore journeys in the discovery of self, of...

'Nature Journal' is an innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs from L. J. Davenport's popular column in 'Alabama Heritage' magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816521722Author William L. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 147g

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times.As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is often hard to come by. And how do we appreciate nature...