Naturführer

Praise for the first edition: ‚More than a picture book … Hoyt’s elegant writing provides both the historical background for deep-sea exploration and an ecological perspective on life in the ocean‘ …

The fresh waters of the British Isles are diverse, ranging from torrential hill streams to powerful rivers and wide, meandering lowland channels. Canals and drainage channels, ranging in size from di …

An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays ma …

In Green Laurels, Donald Culross Peattie combines his extensive knowledge of history’s foremost naturalists with his personal observations about the subject to form what the New York Herald Tribune c …

Henry David Thoreau saw nature as teacher and companion, and many of his philosophies guide the contemporary environmental movement. What Thoreau wrote about simplicity, materialism, technology, and …

Philosophical essays on the beauty and meaning of traditional Japanese gardens. In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconn …

Meanderings through a storied Virginia region with a look at its significance from prehistory to the present. In Learning the Valley, award-winning nature writer John Leland guides readers through th …

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 frie …

‚For I believe that climate does thus react on man — as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires.‘ Henry David Thoreau’s Walking began as a lecture in 1851 and ultima …

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals …