This book was built for your adventures. "Leave room in your dry-bag, boat-box, rucksack, even fishing vest, for this rich collection of voices." -Chris Dombrowski, author of BODY OF WATER A collection of stories, essays, and poems ab...

In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tra...

"Finch is today's best, most perceptive Cape Cod writer in a line extending all the way back to Henry David Thoreau."―Christian Science Monitor Weaving together Robert Finch's collected writings from over fifty years and a...

"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a rem...

"An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itse...

From the first human settlements to the latest marine explorations, The Golden Shore tells the tale of the history, culture, and changing nature of California’s coasts and ocean. David Helvarg takes the reader on both a geographic a...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIANFrom pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work ...

The wolf was so close now... Approaching the place where the edge of the forest met the open meadow, I paused before stepping out from the shadows of the trees. The sun was directly overhead. In that moment I stood frozen in my tracks...

With 18 Full Color Photos! Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. ...

Eric Wade knew he'd finally found the perfect cabin location in the vast wilderness of interior Alaska. He climbed up the river bank to walk on the firm forest floor. He wove through the trees, brushed aside rose bushes and kicked the...

The tallgrass prairie offers solutions to the many environmental challenges facing our water, soils, and ecosystems. Planting prairie on just 10 percent of a field can effectively remove excess phosphorous and nitrogen from the remain...