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Book cover for Joseph Barbato: Heart of the Land

Heart of the Land : Essays on Last Great Places

Joseph Barbato
Paperback - $29.95

From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the country's finest writers celebrate the geography ...

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Seashore Chronicles : Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Islands

Brooks M. Barnes
Paperback - $24.95

Assateague, Chincoteague, Parramore, Smith's, Hog, Wallop's: the names of Virginia's isolated barrier islands evoke their beauty and wildness, their dynamic ecology. Drawing chapters from the writings of novelists, naturalists, journalists, and outdo ...

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Animal Stories : An Account of the Author's Famous Expedition in Search of Wild Animals for the Circus

P. T. Barnum
Paperback - $65.95



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Bartram : Travels and Other Writings

William Bartram
Hardcover - $62.95

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library ...

Book cover for Barbara Bash: True Nature

True Nature

Barbara Bash
Hardcover - $39.95

In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's "Gift from the Sea," writer-illustrator Barbara Bash brings a spiritual awareness to her surroundings as she caringly records encounters with animals and plants during solitary walks around the countryside ...

Book cover for Rick Bass: The Book of Yaak

The Book of Yaak

Rick Bass
Paperback - $23.95

The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, and even a handful of humans. In "The Book of Yaak", Rick Bass capture ...

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Winter : Notes from Montana

Rick Bass
Paperback - $23.95

In a celebration of winter in the last valley of Montana without electricity, Bass describes the wildness and freedom of valley people, the slow-motion quality of life, and the physical dangers of wilderness life. He also describes the anguish and pi ...

Book cover for Carol Ann Bassett: Organ Pipe

Organ Pipe : Life on the Edge

Carol Ann Bassett
Paperback - $24.95

Deep in the heart of the Sonoran Desert lies an oasis of ebony mountains, golden poppies, stately saguaros--and the organ pipe cactus, "a prickly octopus turned on its head." A terrain where one learns to pay attention to the details: the tracks of a ...

Book cover for Henry Walter Bates: The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates
Hardcover - $59.95



Book cover for Henry Walter Bates: The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates
Paperback - $38.95



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