Wilderness Essays

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their ...

Ten years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the contr...

DescriptionA collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including "Nature, " "Self-Reliance, " "Love, " and "Art." Ral...

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated book features a body of new works by renowned American artist Lesley Dill. Lesley Dill is an American artist working at t...

With more than two hundred photographs - many rarely seen and some never before published - this is the most comprehensive collection of Ansel Adam...

Reducere. In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and ma...

Reducere. A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional natu...

Reducere. What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty...

DescriptionFrom the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild a selection of the masterful investigative reporting that made Krakauer famous...

Reducere. Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thir...

Reducere. Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 fr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the eighteenth century, naturalist and artist William Bartram traveled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent time documenting both pl...

Consists of eight essays, which begin with a canoe trip down the River Dee in 2002 and the author's epic round of the Munros in the company of his ...

Reducere. Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth cl...

A collection of essays exploring 29 years of beloved naturalist John Muir's life as he explored the West. Considered one of the patron saints of tw...

"This is an important book for anyone interested in the ethical interrelationships of things, places, and people, and it is a book that is not just...

Reducere. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is a stirring autobiography by the great American naturalist, John Muir."When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond ...

Reducere. 'When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to...

Reducere. Pencil-maker, surveyor, naturalist - Henry David Thoreau wrote articles and essays that established him as America's first great conservationist. A...

Reducere. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about...

DescriptionThe Mountains of California is John Muir's tribute to the beauties of the Sierra, in the book form. When he came to California and final...

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people....

In celebration of the centennial of the founding of Yosemite National Park.. John Muir ( April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914) also known as "John of...

Reducere. From Mark Slouka, San Francisco Chronicle: Ken Lamberton would like you to believe his book, Wilderness and Razor Wire, '' is about the smell of cr...

Reducere. The paths of different birds look like double helixes, flowing strands of hair, and migrating serpents, and they beckon with calls that have defini...

Reducere. From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and ...

DescriptionJohn Muir ( April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains, " was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, envi...

Reducere. Here, in one volume for the first time, are the most important works of Henry David Thoreau, America's greatest nature writer and a political think...

Reducere. An Inspiring Year on a New England Hill FarmHal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported rea...

Reducere. An Inspiring Year on a New England Hill FarmHal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported rea...

Reducere. Euell Gibbons The fatheer of Modern Foraging and back to nature movment. A wounderful writer.... Clasic... His chatty, informative, and funny style...

Reducere. Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is b...

Reducere. DescriptionTed Kaczynski brought terror to the United States for nearly two decades. He mailed and hand delivered bombs that targeted airplanes, un...

Reducere. A quirky and reverent romp through nature with an irreverently funny guide In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood...

John Muir's beloved adventure in the Sierra reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists. Considered one of the patron sa...

Reducere. In the classic nature work, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types ...

Reducere. Award NameNew Mexico-Arizona Book AwardsAward categoryBest Arizona BookMore college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor ...

Reducere. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in ...

Reducere. Renowned as a pioneer of the new school of nature writing and among the most widely read authors of his time, John Burroughs has had a profound inf...

Reducere. Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging l...

Reducere. In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation--and the conflict behind the creation--of sacred space in America. The essays in...

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A landmark collected edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist, illuminating the marvels of biodiversity in a time ...

Reducere. A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the "metropolis" of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood o...

Reducere. The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and ye...

Hemingway would have been impressed. In a stunning combination of superb color images and literary yet lively personal essays, celebrated angling p...

Reducere. In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat ...