Nature Guidance

Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. Their sting is the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom, their v …

Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from …

For some years, The Nature of North Carolina’s Southern Coast has stood as an essential resource for all who treasure our coastal environment. In this book, Dirk Frankenberg describes the southern co …

Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity. The shells of these marine mo …

What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmenta …

An abandoned place, a disheveled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as “going to seed.” But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are send …

The Cardinal Anthology is a collection of social, reproductive, environmental, and economic justice themed essays, poetry, and short stories written by authors from around the world. Contributors inc …

‘An anthology to treasure and return to’ ELINOR CLEGHORN ‘Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful’ LUCY JONES ‘Deeply affecting’ TOM SHAKESPEARE ‘Promises to change the landscape of nature writing’ …

Masterpieces you can read over and over is how the Washington Post reviewed Mac Quarrie’s engaging, timeless stories of the misadventures of the Old Duck Hunters Association.Here are 53 classic hunti …

A richly illustrated natural history of the world’s crabs that examines their diversity, ecology, anatomy, behavior, and more This lavishly illustrated book offers a remarkable look at the world’s cr …