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Three by Annie Dillard by Annie Dillard
RRP: $52.34Booksplease Price: $34.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060920647Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint -
The Annie Dillard Reader by Annie Dillard 9780060926601
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926601Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed... -
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060915438Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint -
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Art of the Essay) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375703478Author Annie Dillard -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint -
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061233326Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint -
Total Eclipse Annie Dillard 9781068591884
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.92What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning... -
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 9781848250789
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.92Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has continued to change people's lives for over thirty years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation with its beauty on the one hand and cruelty on the... -
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $28.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062432964Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.71'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd... -
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon and ends with the starry sky. From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies - considering everything from the... -
Inventing the Truth: Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser
Booksplease Price: $28.04For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs-or is thinking about writing one-this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others. The... -
Dissolve Nikki Gemmell 9780733650635
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually... -
The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood John Lister-Kaye 9781786891471
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays -... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind 9780300281910
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.01An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing... -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A... -
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
RRP: $40.46Booksplease Price: $23.54A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich's new book, Unsolaced"Wyoming has found its Whitman." -Annie DillardPoet and... -
Dao De Jing by Laozi
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $45.01From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated version of the classic work of Daoist philosophyC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the... -
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780393326659
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $34.68Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects... -
The Inner Coast: Essays by Donovan Hohn 9781324005971
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of... -
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee 9781037217746
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.30THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY GARTH GREENWELL'Every word makes me ache ... Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay'Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing... -
The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors by Tony Jones 9781538184448
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $35.37Millions of Americans, disillusioned with organized religion, yearn for meaning and transcendence in their lives, and many of them are finding that in nature. When pastor and theologian Tony Jones,... -
Night Fishing by Vicki Hastrich
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.40Vicki Hastrich takes the reader on a stunning voyage through her writer's life and across her chosen patch: the private byways of Brisbane Water, north of Sydney, where she has spent much of her life... -
Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir by Richard Shelton 9780816533992
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela's Ashes ; Annie Dillard did it with An American Childhood . In Nobody Rich or Famous ,... -
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker... -
The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel by Scott Russell Sanders 9780253045874
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97After decades of abuse transforms the world into a toxic wasteland, people flee into the safety of a global network of domed cities. Within these safe, orderly spaces, the only animals allowed are... -
The Way Home by Bibi Wein 9781932195132
RRP: $33.32Booksplease Price: $28.87Provocative from the opening lines, this is a treasure trove of love, loss, humor, and self-discovery amidst the trees and cabins of the Adirondack Mountains:Somewhere around the age of 40, when I... -
Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style by Amitava Kumar 9781478006275
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $39.20Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an... -
Bluets by Maggie Nelson 9781933517407
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.59Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as... -
The Meaning of Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson 9780816637096
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94Sigurd F. Olson (1899-1982) was one of the greatest environmentalists of the twentieth century. A conservation activist and popular writer, Olson introduced a generation of readers to the importance... -
Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson by David Backes 9780816628438
Booksplease Price: $40.53The critically acclaimed biography of this venerable naturalist and writer.The first biography of this venerable naturalist and writer.Sigurd Olson (1899-1982) was acknowledged during his lifetime as... -
Terrarium by Scott Russell Sanders
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a global network of domed cities known collectively as "the Enclosure."... -
New Songs of Innocence S J Hodson 9781587315541
Booksplease Price: $30.94"Poetry is language at play. In New Songs of Innocence S.J. Hodson is hard at work in this playground teasing us with syllabic verse ("Beside Himself with Calm"), haiku stanzas ("A Cougar Strolled... -
Radium Girl by Celeste Lipkes 9780299341749
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $30.27The poems in Radium Girl hold dual citizenship in the land of the sick and the kingdom of the well. The point where illusion ends and reality begins is never clear, as Celeste Lipkes evokes saints,... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: $49.67From 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... -
Trains in the Distance by 9780873387965
Booksplease Price: $35.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBorn in Canton, Ohio, Paul Zimmer worked for forty years in the book business. He is now retired and lives... -
The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas E. Christie
Booksplease Price: $121.21'There are no unsacred places,' the poet Wendell Berry has written. 'There are only sacred places and desecrated places.' What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it... -
The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems... -
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $40.72This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Though...