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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 …

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 …

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 …

‘Wild Apples’ is a fascinating and wonderfully-written essay concerning the history and variations of wild apple species by American naturalist Henry David Thoreau. One of Thoreau’s major essays, ‘Wi …

‘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 …

Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author’s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to N …

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig …

My First Summer in the Sierra is the incredible true story of John Muir’s iconic time spent working in the California mountain range of the Sierra Nevada’s. In this republished edition, read about hi …

‘Hoyt’s passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries …with grace, insight, wit–and a compreh …