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Making Hay by Verlyn Klinkenborg
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11"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 ... -
The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.65Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Last Fine Time sensitively chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days before WWII as a Polish tavern to 1947, when it became a swank... -
Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg 9780316735513
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from... -
Timothy; Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg 9780679737537
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679737537Author Verlyn KlinkenborgFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprin -
Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279415Author Verlyn KlinkenborgFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprin -
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen 9780393326000
Booksplease Price: £13.36In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend,... -
Captain James Cook: A Biography by Richard Alexander Hough 9780393315196
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.23James Cook, born in 1728, was one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages in the Royal Navy to the eastern and western... -
The Face of Minnesota by John Szarkowski 9780816654482
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.25"Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The Face of Minnesota is a fresh, simple, unpretentious... -
Some Horses: Essays by Thomas McGuane 9780762791514
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.14In these nine intensely compelling essays, with a new preface, bestselling author Tom McGuane shares remarkable stories of the exceptional horses and horsemen he has known as he learned roping,... -
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 9780393308730
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.71In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago... -
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by John W. Reid
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering... -
Garden Guide: New York City Nancy Berner 9780393733075
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36Tucked inside venerable museums, perched on rooftops, concealed behind sleek midtown facades, and waiting beyond unassuming gates you may have passed a hundred times, if you know where to look,... -
Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship by Ulrich Raulff
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world' James Rebanks'Scintillating, exhilarating ... you have never read a... -
This Patch of Earth: Observations on a Rural Life Daryln Brewer Hoffstot 9780811778299
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811778299Author Daryln Brewer HoffstotFormat HardbackPage Count 136 -
The Catch of a Lifetime: Moments of Flyfishing Glory by Peter Kaminsky 9781648291494
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60A Gorgeously Illustrated Collection of First-Person Stories on the Sublime Joy of FlyfishingEvery fly fisher has one: that moment-that ineffable, transcendent moment-they can point to and say, That's... -
The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires by Stanley Crawford 9781945652059
RRP: £13.59Booksplease Price: £10.60The compelling personal story at the heart of the Netflix documentary, "Garlic Breath." Readers who care about preserving local businesses will appreciate this new book by writer and garlic farm... -
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet John W. Reid 9781324006039
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.79Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering... -
Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Ulrich Raulff 9781631494321
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £24.75Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries... -
The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West by David Haward Bain 9781496230485
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author's... -
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle by Lukas Rieppel 9780674737587
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in... -
The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr 9780674018297
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on... -
Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become Lynne Jones 9781934137666
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"Remarkable insight and sensitivity ...deepen[s] our understanding of human resilience and how people rebuild their lives from tragic circumstances." --KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director, Human Rights... -
Fathoms: the world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs 9781913348809
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, Shortlisted for the Stella...