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The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man
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Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
Kyo Maclear · 221 pages
A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this meditation on creativity and life – a field guide to things small and significant. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted a young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature she decided to follow him for a year to find out. Observing two artists through seasonal
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould · 343 pages
For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Terry Tempest Williams · 232 pages
In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams (beloved author of "Refuge") creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals .. and what it means to have a voice beyond a selfless existence informed by children and a husband.
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals
Amy Leach · 208 pages
Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
Mary Oliver · 109 pages
With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the powerful flight of swans, and of the "thousand unbreakable links between us and everything else."
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Jay Griffiths · 384 pages
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
Ted Kooser · 155 pages
"Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska. Like many other people in this rural area, he has what he calls "wolf vision"--He sees every change in the landscape around him. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother's cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the old-fashioned o
Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver · 288 pages
"In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us from one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects, ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remo
Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Kathleen Dean Moore · 195 pages
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
Aldo Leopold · 269 pages
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Jon Krakauer · 191 pages
Krakauer takes the reader to wonderful, awful peaks like Denali, the Eiger, Devil's Thumb, K-2 and Everest.
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Kathleen Norris · 228 pages
Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.
Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgard · 224 pages
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
The John McPhee Reader
John McPhee · 385 pages
In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, "A Sense of Where You Are"; a decade later, he had published eleven others. This reader is comprised of selections from those first twelve books.
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin · 95 pages
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
Heather Lende · 288 pages
Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful pla