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Book cover for Thomas Berry: Evening Thoughts

Evening Thoughts : Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community

Thomas Berry
Hardcover - $32.95

This new collection of essays, from various years and occasions, expands and deepens ideas articulated in Berry's earlier writings and also breaks new ground.

Book cover for Wendell Berry: Another Turn of the Crank

Another Turn of the Crank

Wendell Berry
Paperback - $23.95

Six essays on sustainability and stewardship appear in this edition. One of America's most important cultural critics, Wendell Berry, urges that people learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a healing that might spread over ...

Book cover for Wendell Berry: Unsettling of America

Unsettling of America : Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry
Paperback - $23.95

In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more ...

Book cover for Henry Beston: The Outermost House

The Outermost House : A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

Henry Beston
Paperback - $23.95

A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, "The Outermost House" has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing and is now available in a 75th anniversary edition. Illustration & map.

Book cover for Alan Blackstock: A Green River Reader

A Green River Reader

Alan Blackstock
Paperback - $30.95

Beginning above Flaming Gorge Dam in southwestern Wyoming, the Green River traverses the complete variety of terrain on the Colorado Plateau before joining the Colorado River above Cataract Canyon in southeastern Utah. Like its more famous cousin, th ...

Book cover for Elroy Bode: In a Special Light

In a Special Light

Elroy Bode
Hardcover - $41.95

Elroy Bode's books on nature and life have made him a favorite of readers and critics. Here he explores his home city of El Paso, the land and people of Central Texas, and his roles as teacher, father, and writer. These sharply observed, beautifully ...

Book cover for Glen W. Boles: Canadian Mountain Place Names

Canadian Mountain Place Names : The Rockies and Columbia Mountains

Glen W. Boles
Paperback - $32.95

The towering peaks of the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains rival the European Alps in fame. When travelling or climbing, hiking or skiing in these areas, have you ever wondered where the names of the peaks, rivers and lakes came from, or who n ...

Book cover for Marcia Bonta: Appalachian Summer

Appalachian Summer

Marcia Bonta
Paperback - $29.95

Bonta offers a day-by-day account of the natural life of one place--her 648-acre property in south central Pennsylvania. In her minute observations of one place, one season, Marcia Bonta lays bare the connections we retain to the natural world, which ...

Book cover for Marcia Bonta: Women in the Field

Women in the Field : America's Pioneering Women Naturalists

Marcia Bonta
Paperback - $29.95



Book cover for Jennifer Bove: A Mile in Her Boots

A Mile in Her Boots : Women Who Work in the Wild

Jennifer Bove
Paperback - $27.95

The stories in this remarkable collection detail the experiences of women who work in a variety of outdoor professions including smoke jumping, river running, professional falconry, and horse packing. A celebration of women making their way in the wi ...

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