Influential naturalist, author, and co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir loved the outdoors. His writings and advocacy for protection of the pristine wilderness of the American west were vital in helping to preserve noted sites of...
The Nature of Desert Nature (Southwes...
Gary Paul NabhanIn this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “Th...
Coast Range: A Collection from the Pa...
Nick Neely"Finely tuned essays that vary intriguingly in form and tone . . . Neely capably explores the complexity of his subjects with polish and finesse, looking carefully and thinking deeply." ―Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewCOAST: the edge...
Embracing the Seasons: Memories of a ...
Gunilla NorrisIn Embracing the Seasons Gunilla Norris shares her soulful and thought-provoking observations of a year lived in the countryside and reflects on the abundance and meaning of nature and its cycles of renewal. This journey through the s...
Good Pasture: Short & Shorter Stories...
Annie OliverioDivided into months, Good Pasture: Short & Shorter Stories from Rural Oklahoma is a compilation of mostly true tales of everyday life on a ranch in the Midwest. It’s all about small towns, dirt roads, coyotes, fields strung with spi...
Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essay...
Robert Michael PyleNature Matrix is a gathering of some of Robert Michael Pyle’s most significant, original, and timely expressions of a life immersed in the natural world, in all its splendor, power, and peril\r\n \n\nNature Matrix: New and S...
Here Is Where I Walk: Episodes from a...
Leslie Carol RobertsIt is in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s m...
Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for W...
Linda RussoThe Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of humanity in the transformation of earth's environment globally, has become the subject ...
A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecs...
Martin ShawA BRANCH FROM THE LIGHTNING TREE is centered around several key elements: 1.It features four texts and commentaries -- Welsh, Russian, Siberian and Norwegian myths that explore the process of leaving what is considered safe and predic...
Animal Stories: Encounters with Alask...
Bill SherwonitThese timeless, beautifully written essays share encounters and observations on a variety of Alaskan wildlife and include natural history information. They have a wide reach, in a number of ways. Besides essays about Alaska's best-kno...
Two beautifully paired essays, "Tawny Grammar" and "Good, Wild, Sacred," serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Gary Snyder's long work as a poet, environmentalist, and a leader of the Buddhist community ...
Rust Belt Arcana: Tarot and Natural H...
Matt StansberryA young bear―The Fool―is cast off from its mother in the spring to wander a fragmented suburban forest, to be harried by dogs and traffic, chased through golf courses and farms. An ocean-going trout climbs industrial, sewage-taint...
"A man may stand there and put all America behind him." Wishing to get a better view of the ocean, Thoreau made three walking trips across the Cape beaches between October of 1849 July of 1855. Sometimes he walked alone, ot...
Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Waldenas a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part...
The Alphabet of the Trees: Opening to...
Patrice VecchioneStep outside your door and reconnect with nature. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your connection to the earth and inspire you to develop and strengthen your imagination.The natural ...
Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing t...
Ted WilliamsNoted nature writer Ted Williams invites readers along on a year-long immersion in the wild and fleeting moments of the natural world, from winter candy and spring quackers to summer’s scarlet farewell and autumn reveilles. This...
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist\r\n\r\nTerry Tempest Williams\'s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on...
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topograp...
Terry Tempest WilliamsLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 millio...