California plants

An essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts in California.With his vibrant photographs and lively writing, Matt Ritter takes the reader on a journey through the Golden State's iconic landscapes and abundant plant life.This definitive guide includes: Over 300 pages with more than 500 species des...

Landings

A hybrid memoir / art book, with an introduction by New York Times Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver.In 130 ink-and-watercolor drawings, the story of one year on a family farm in Kentucky unfolds in captured moments of daily life: Donahue chopping wood, a cow sniffing her head, her daughter t...

A yankee in canada

First published in 1866, A Yankee in Canada is one of a series of three famous travel books by Henry David Thoreau, including The Maine Woods (1864) and Cape Cod (1865).

The gaddi beyond pastoralism

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the social and religious landscapes as seen by the Gaddi people of Himachal Pradesh Paints a picture of contemporary Gaddi life that moves beyond their customary occupation as nomadic herders of sheep and goats Analyses religious prac...

Weathering the world

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsun...

Beyond wild and tame

How to teach nature journaling

The first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places.In their workshops, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups i...

Sauna

'This beautiful and timely book will appeal to anyone looking to deepen their experience, with or without the added joy of a cold swim.' Kate Rew, author of The Outdoor Swimmers' Handbook'An essential guide to a movement reborn, blending modernity and tradition, design and wellness, community and...

Apprenticeship writings of frank norris 1896-1898

Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a “touchstone” figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. “McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any prev...

50 best short hikes in utah's national parks

Utah’s five national parks—Arches, Bryce, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion—hold some of the most awe-inspiring geology on the planet. Each park offers visitors the dramatic scenery that invites exploration and discovery.In 50 Best Short Hikes in Utah’s National Parks, veteran hiking guide Gre...

Shinto meditations for revering the earth

The first book in English to apply ancient Japanese Shinto traditions to daily spiritual fulfillment.

Zen in the garden

Spring, summer, autumn, and winterThe seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really ‘talk’ to one another? What are the black birds saying ...

Wandering with intent

WINNER OF THE 2023 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR NONFICTION To essay means to try, to endeavor, to attempt—and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us...

Position doubtful

This is a beautiful exploration of friendships and landscape and the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.

Babylon, albion

A lyrical inquiry into how identity is informed by the natural world.

Teaching off trail

Teaching Off Trail describes the transformation of Peter Dargatz, a national board-certified teacher, and public school coordinator, from an anxious assessor to a fair and fun facilitator of learning. It shares his personal professional journey detailing his evolution as an educator while simulta...

Healing with nature

Reconnect with Your Body and Nature to Heal from Trauma As psychologist and mindfulness teacher Rochelle Calvert explores in this powerful book, one of the greatest sources of healing from trauma is all around us — nature. Dr. Calvert shows how to relate to and connect with nature through the pr...

A little gaelic kingdom

“A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past.”—John Banville“He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility.”—Colm Tóibí...

Nightshining

“Jennifer Kabat’s Nightshining sifts a riveting exposé of the Cold War technocratic fantasy-state through lyrical family memoir. Her superb investigation calls to mind those of Rebecca Solnit and Errol Morris, among others.”—Jonathan Lethem A propulsive, layered examination of the conflict betwee...

The prairie in her eyes

Ann Daum’s earthy and elegant memoir begins in the present then moves into the past, as Daum tells her story as an independent rancher raising sport horses on what’s left of a 30,000-acre spread. In 16 essays, she writes about the connection to land, family, and animals that is so much a part of ...

Writing the sacred into the real

With vivid ideas and passion, Deming writes about the importance of nature writing for these peripatetic times. Descended from the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alison Deming appropriately begins this philosophical autobiography along the shores of the North Atlantic — on Grand Manan...

Cacophony of bone

From the acclaimed author of Thin Places, a luminous day book about an unexpected year and finding home.Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then t...

Listening to the wind

“Exceptional . . . A book about one place which is also about the whole world.” —ROBERT MACFARLANE

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!“Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.” –Margaret Renkl, New York Times“A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.” –Los Ang...

A shepherd's life

Originally published in England in 1910, this story of a shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, describes life in the south-central English county of Wiltshire before the turn of the 20th century. It is a charming picture of pastoral life that often seems idyllic and simple when viewed from the present. Caleb...

Surrender

In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.Blending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid...

Food, sex, & salmonella

This book is about the true meaning of eating, intimacy, love, vomiting and diarrhea: You and your food partner. It is about the celebration of ecology through eating and about how food poisoning can save the world.

Lake erie stories

This thoroughly researched history explores the personalities and events that have shaped Lake Erie and the towns and cities that surround it.

The breath that lightens the body

Here is a beautiful chronicle of a sojourn to worlds translated from strange brushstrokes of landscape and gesture into the shared language of sight and sound.

Iron mountain

These are delicate poems harbouring hard truths. In Frutkins vision the entire world speaks to us of time, of change, of immutability, of radiant emptiness.

Quetico

Using thorough research, the author presents an insightful look into the natural history of Quetico Park, long recognized as a gem among parks.

The mulch pile

Like his earlier book, Woman By the Shore, it is rather like an album of snapshots to leaf through.

Almaguin

The Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering the Magnetawan River district, is a land rich with waterways and a lively history.

From reindeer lake to eskimo point

In this account of an 800-mile canoe trip – which begins at Reindeer Lake on the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, continues into Nunavut past the treeline, and ends on Hudson Bay – Peter Kazaks conveys the experience of being in the north by describing the daily details that bring the trip to life.

Hudson bay watershed

John Macfie captured in photographs this turning-point in the lives of the Ojibway, Cre, and Oji-Cree, at the midpoint of the twentieth century, when their traditional culture still flourished but change was fast approaching.

From the top of a grain elevator

Award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that charts natures glorious playground.

Trails and tribulations

Noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. A park ranger, canoe guide, and environmental activist, Wilson takes the reader on a journey through natural settings ranging from austere to mysterious and breathtak...

The gift of country life

These poems, grouped into seasonal activities or observations, celebrate the rural world of 1940s farming.

One animal among many

The real-life experiences of creatures great and small. The collection looks at everything from sheep farming to herbal remedies and rabies.

Hurricane hazel

Hurricane Hazel battered southern Ontario in 1954, leaving thousands homeless, millions in property damage, and, worst of all, 81 people dead. On the 50th anniversary of the storm, Jim Gifford has captured that fatal night in the voices of those who survived it. Includes more than 100 never-befor...

Along the trail in algonquin park

This book, by the legendary "Mr. Algonquin," has delighted readers across Canada and the U.S. from the time of its first publication.

The reluctant twitcher

In 2007, Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, embarked on his ""Big Year,"" the object being to record at least 300 birds in Ontario within that calendar period. Not just another book on birding, Pope’s unique approach is supported by an array of exceptional colour illustrations.

Words for trees

In this Ottawa writers first volume of verse, visual art, from the Middle Ages through Matisse, is re-enacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction.

Growing up in the oil patch

This book chronicles the adventures of a cast of colourful, ambitious people: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries, and developers, all participants in the growing oil patch!

The cabin

Noted environmentalist Hap Wilson takes us along a wilderness trail replete with snags and pitfalls, through mishaps, tears, and laughter.

The rewilding yearbook

The Rewilding Yearbook is a year-long personal development journey into connecting with your place in the natural world – and how to bring nature back into the heart of our lives and work! The Rewilding Yearbook takes readers on a journey into unearthing the wild within and forming a deep fulfil...

The solstice yearbook

Drawing on ancient traditions, folklore and rituals this seasonal guidebook is packed with ideas for celebrating the Solar year, from midnight Solstice rituals to Midwinter fires and Equinox rebalancing tips. Each chapter offers a chance to learn something new, from seasonal rituals and recipes t...

The wildlife gardener's almanac

The ultimate guide to encouraging wildlife into the garden all year round. Taking a month-by-month approach, The Wildlife Gardener’s Almanac is packed with ideas, advice, tips and checklists, to give gardener's the best chance to make their contribution to conserving our native flora and fauna, n...

Dorset from the sea

The visual feast that is Dorset is enjoyed by millions, visitors, locals, or through printed and virtual media. But few are lucky enough to enjoy the coastline 'from the outside looking in'.This book has been photographed entirely from the sea by sailor and marine photographer Steve Belasco who h...

Belasco: dorset from the sea

This book gives a unique view of the Jurassic Coast, and has been photographed entirely from the sea by sailor and marine photographer Steve Belasco who has cruised the area in small boats for over 20 years. Steve’s love of Dorset's waters, those who enjoy them and the people and creatures that d...

Disasters and changes in society and politics

From earthquakes to oil spills, Italy is recurrently affected by different kinds of disasters. This book brings a critical perspective to post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, which can impact in both the short- and long- term upon society, politics and organizations. It is often assumed tha...

Spatial planning and resilience following disasters

Population shifts and an increase in the number of natural (and man-made) disasters are having a profound effect on urban and rural habitats globally. This book brings together for the first time the experiences and knowledge of international contributors from academia, research, policy and pract...

Catastrophe and catharsis

Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present.Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combinati...

Biomimetics for architecture

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture. Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research an...

Constructing risk

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

The luckiest thirteen

A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men’s lives.The English port city of Hull was home to ‘three day millionaires’ – trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who knew if the next trip would be their last?...

Disappearing cities

Disappearing Cities is a collection of short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by climate change impacts. The projected fictions are created from projected current climate facts. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities, the work aims to be a salien...

The things trees know

This pocket-sized book features short but insightful text, paired with pen-and-ink nature illustrations, to provide comfort and inspiration.

Horses, horses, in the end the light remains pure

A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir that replicates the experience of trauma and its effect on memory in ways reminiscent of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.

Rethinking readiness

Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today.

The science of destiny

Should the universe not be entirely meaningless and blind, what does it say about destiny? And why are so many destinies so tragic?

Unnatural disasters

Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk.

Disasters and development

This primer provides readers with a fundamental understanding of disasters and their consequences.

Hiking from here to wow: utah canyon country

Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country describes the 90 most compelling trails within our planet’s most bizarrely beautiful region.

Disaster education

Offers an informative introduction to the subject of disaster risk reduction education and highlights key places of education such as family, community, school, and higher education. This book describes and demonstrates different aspects of education in an easy-to-understand form with academic re...

Recovering from catastrophic disaster in asia

Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management provides a series of cross-disciplinary approaches and methods which are exemplified by case studies from different parts of the world. Volume 18 looks at how cities and countries recover from catastrophic disasters with a specific focus on Asia.

Community based disaster risk reduction

Deals with the topic of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR). This book provides an overview of the subject and looks at the role of governments, NGOs, academics and corporate sectors in community based disaster risk reduction. It examines experiences from Asian and African countries.

Environment disaster linkages

This is one of the first books to focus on explicit linkages between the changing environment and disasters and suggests proactive approaches towards disaster management. A ready-reference for field practitioners it covers areas such as elements of environmental entry, impacts of environment and ...

Disaster management in sub-saharan africa

A combined analysis of all the chapters provides an interesting summary and information for creating disaster management policies for improved results in SSA. With an extensive glossary of terms and index, the book lends itself to specialized academics and students, but also to disaster managemen...

Civilising grass

Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid erasDrawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this ...

The california sky watcher

Ride across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State."Selby's greatest gift to readers is to reveal the climate as an indomitable equalizer." —Los Angeles TimesOften stereotyped as the land of unflaggi...

Pastoral cosmopolitanism in edith wharton’s fiction

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

Disastrous times

Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked...

West side rising

The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city

World without end

Nonfiction Finalist, Willie Morris Awards2025 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for EssaysBest of 2025: Top 10 Adult, Foreword ReviewsA Garden & Gun Favorite Book of 2025 For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells’s Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change an...

Meditations of margaret fuller

Pause, reflect, and encounter the natural world through the meditative writings of Margaret Fuller. For Margaret Fuller—one of the most original American thinkers of the 19th century—nature was both refuge and revelation, a place where the outer world and inner life met. “Nature is a perpetual m...

Swimming the seasons

To swim is an act of attention: to the self, and to everything beyond it. Follow poet and nature writer Polly Atkin as she swims through the turning year in the rivers, lakes and tarns of the English Lake District, in this lyrical ode to the uplifting power of water. This is a love story between...

Ground sloth

“Megalonyx” is one of the most widely distributed taxa of ground sloths in North America. Numerous Pleistocene sites contain isolated fossil elements. However, most fossils are of late Rancholabrean age, and relatively few “Megalonyx” fossils have been found in the southeastern United States outs...