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The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction by Sally Cline 9781408131237
Booksplease Price: £25.36The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and... -
The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century by Neil W. Browne
Booksplease Price: £36.36American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be continuous with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the... -
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth 9780393635164
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings... -
Thoreau’s Botany: Thinking and Writing with Plants by James Perrin Warren 9780813949482
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Thoreau's last years have been the subject of debate for decades, but only recently have scholars and critics begun to appreciate the posthumous publications, unfinished manuscripts, and Journal... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: £20.87From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
Reservoir Year: A Walker's Book of Days by Nina Shengold 9780815636960
Booksplease Price: £55.13On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills' glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all... -
Intertidal: The hidden world between land and sea Yuvan Aves 9781804189818
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50'A wondrous work of walking, seeing and thinking' - Robert Macfarlane'A startlingly brilliant and moving debut' - William DalrympleA deep observation of coast and wetland, climate and self, by a... -
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.94Across Russia's easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region... -
This Impermanent Earth: Environmental Writing from the Georgia Review by Douglas Carlson
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £27.39With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged... -
The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson 9781526633675
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.31WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove... -
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword by Robert Macfarlane by J. A. Baker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature... -
Freeman's Power by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is... -
Freeman's Arrival: The Best New Writing on Arrival by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95We live today in constant motion, travelling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta... -
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit 9781803510484
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that preferred women to be... -
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford 9781838852061
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2023No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global eventsToday,... -
Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature by Mark Browning 9780821412190
Booksplease Price: £29.21Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a... -
Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld by Lee Rozelle
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American... -
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Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths 9780141006444 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.53WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable,... -
The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone's Legendary Druid Pack by Rick McIntyre 9781771645249
Booksplease Price: £20.79"A redemption story, an adventure story, and perhaps above all, a love story."-Nate Blakeslee, New York Times-bestselling author of American WolfThe Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in... -
Between Light and Storm: Our Lives With Other Species by Esther Woolfson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in... -
Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica by Tom Griffiths 9780674034709
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.57From Scott and Shackleton to sled dogs and penguins, stories of Antarctica seize our imagination. In December 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the Australian Antarctic... -
The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary by Philip Connors 9780826368348
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24A poignant and ruminative work of creative nonfiction by the bestselling, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's... -
The Pale Flesh of Wood Elizabeth A Tucker 9781647428341
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.641953. WWII veteran Charles Hawkins sweet-talks his daughter, Lyla, into climbing the family's oak tree and hanging the rope for their tire swing. Eager, Lyla crawls along the branch and ties off a... -
Water Lines: A Life on Rivers and Seas and In the Rain by Riverhorse Nakadate 9781952338359
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.85A luminous, deeply felt collection of essays from Riverhorse Nakadate-angler, musician, conservationist, and lifelong nomad-whose devotion to wild places and the healing power of water pulses through... -
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.99SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2023Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. In this book James Crawford argues that our enduring... -
Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland James Crawford 9781780279268
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a... -
How Animals Heal Us by Jay Griffiths 9780241997918
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.37'A moving, essential book . . . Nobody writes about Nature with more beauty and grace than Jay Griffiths' Brian EnoFrom celebrated author Jay Griffiths comes a unique and heartfelt insight into the... -
Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Karen Babine 9780816696789
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.342016 Minnesota Book Award Winner for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Consider your place, the place where you feel the most at home: a tree-lined lake, a bean field planted on stolen land, a rig... -
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520285958
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly... -
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520285941
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly... -
Reclaimers by Ana Maria Spagna 9780295995137
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.18For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a... -
Reclaimers by Ana Maria Spagna
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.46For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a... -
Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers by Virginia L. Bartlett 9781032408200
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Elements of Moral Experience in Clinical Ethics Training and Practice: Sharing Stories with Strangers is a philosophical and professional memoir of the education, training, and professional... -
The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories Matthew Cheney 9798986614502
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on. The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist... -
In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area by Dick Evans 9781597146913
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £24.80Experience the wild beauty of birds around the Bay."Gives voice to a piece of California that nourishes an astonishing array of birds who deserve celebration." -Chris Johns, Former Editor-in-Chief,... -
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman 9780753559710
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages"On the day after... -
Conversations on the Edge: Narratives of Ethics and Illness by Richard M. Zaner 9781626161511
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.21At the edge of mortality there is a place where the seriously ill or dying wait - a place where they may often feel vulnerable or alone. For over forty years, bioethicist cum philosopher Richard... -
Encountering Gorillas: A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival by James L. Newman 9781442219557
Booksplease Price: £76.51Gorillas, the largest of the apes inhabiting our planet, have been a source of fear, awe, and inspiration to humans. In this book, James L. Newman brings a lifetime of study of Africa to his... -
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores 9781324065913
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.57In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of... -
Thinking Like a Wolf: Lessons From the Yellowstone Packs by Rick McIntyre 9781778403767
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Book Five in the Award-Winning "Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone" series"Rick's writing is so vivid, so powerful, that I feel I have been right there with him among the wolves of Yellowstone."-Jane...