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this book invites the reader to face it: to look with wide-open eyes on a new nature that will never...

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and...

Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times....

“A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.”  —Lily Tomlin “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being...

Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an...

Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to...

This book is a compilation of entries in my blog and other writings that I have produced over the years....

Introduced by Professor Peter Butter. From his shattered childhood in Orkney to the turmoil of industrial Glasgow, Edwin Muir...

My Life on Earth is a most unusual memoir. It’s magical— like the stories people tell huddled around a campfire...

A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape. Those who have encountered...

Author Gene Logsdon-whom Wendell Berry once called "the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have"-has a notion: That...

First published in 1863, "Excursions" is a collection of essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. It contains nine essays...

"Walden" is a 1854 work by American transcendentalist Henry D. Thoreau. It concerns Thoreau's experiences over a period of two...

"The Breath of Life" is a 1915 book by American naturalist John Burroughs. It contains a number of essays related...

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin...

First inexpensive, illustrated edition of early classic on American geography, plants, Indians, wildlife, early settlers. Influenced Coleridge, Wordsworth, a......

With 18 Full Color Photos! 'Walden' is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details...

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David...

In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was...

Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew into...