Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before

The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

Shreve Stockton · 287 pages

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

Lyanda Lynn Haupt · 229 pages

There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. CROWPLANETreminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature." Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreci

Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

Bernd Heinrich

"When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist/author to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the anima

Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd

Karsten Heuer · 238 pages

In April 2003, newlyweds Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison embarked on a five-month research journey to migrate more than 2,000 miles with a herd of 120,000 Porcupine Caribou.

Last Chance to See

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine · 222 pages

An interactive multimedia exploration of the authors' trip around the world in search of endangered species. Contains the unabridged text of the book Last chance to see, a reading of the entire book by Douglas Adams, and over 800 full-screen color photographs. Allows the user to either read or listen to the book, to choose any chapter within the book, and to explore the many sidebars that provide

Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn

Hannah Holmes · 272 pages

More than 550 square miles of new lawns unfold each year in the U.S. alone. Although new research shows that these lawns aren't nearly as "unnatural" as ecologists once thought, no one has offered an accessible exploration of this novel habitat--until now. Equipped with a lawn chair and her infectious curiosity, science writer Holmes spends a year on her lawn hoping to discover exactly what's goin

Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

Nathanael Johnson · 224 pages

"Johnson argues that learning to see the world afresh, like a child, shifts the way we think about nature: Instead of something distant and abstract, nature becomes real all at once comical, annoying, and beautiful. This shift can add tremendous value to our lives, and it might just be the first step in saving the world...[C]hapter by chapter, "Unseen City" takes us on a journey that is part natur

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

Jon Mooallem · 352 pages

Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls--while the actual world she's inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America's endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world aroun

The Living Planet

David Attenborough · 320 pages

Book discusses and pictures life in various environments such as deserts, grasslands, oceans, and the sky.

Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)

Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages

The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America

David Baron · 277 pages

Kings of the Wild

Scott, Jonathan, Angela Scott, Collins Big Cat · 47 pages

Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World

Charles Darwin · 576 pages

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

William Stolzenburg · 297 pages

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworm

Amy Stewart · 240 pages

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver · 384 pages

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begi

Genesis

Lelia Wanick Salgado · 518 pages

In 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. In over 32 trips, he created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous people. This book presents his images such as: ancient animal species and volcanoes of the Galapagos; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; and, African lions, leopards, and elephants.

Encounters with the Archdruid

John McPhee · 245 pages

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard a

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard · 279 pages

What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature

The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

Jerry Dennis · 308 pages

"If fresh water is a treasure, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. Superior is the largest lake on earth, and the five lakes together contain a fifth of the world's supply of standing fresh water. Their ten thousand miles of shoreline bound seven states and a Canadian province and are longer than the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States;

The Edge of the Sea

Rachel Carson · 276 pages

We see how the tides, waves, and ocean current shape the living creatures that depend on them. Three main types of environment--the rock shore, the rim of sand and the coral coast found on the American Atlantic coast are studied in detail.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

David Abram · 313 pages

A startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living wor

The Oldest Living Things in the World

Rachel Sussman · 269 pages

"The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual coll

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

Edward Abbey, Jim Stiles · 242 pages

A collection of essays on the American West covers such issues as urban growth, the gentrification of the small-town West, and wilderness preservation.