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All That the Rain Promises, and More...: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora Publisher Comments Full-color illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms by their key features.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mushrooms Demystified 2ND Edition by David Arora Publisher Comments CN... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Trees: West (Collins Wild Guide) by Steve Cafferty Publisher Comments Easy-to-use introductory illustrated guides to discovering the natural world A handy, portable reference to the trees and shrubs of western North America Full-color illustrations Detailed descriptions and fact files for each entry Color photos and useful... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The New Oxford Book of Food Plants by John Vaughan Publisher Comments A true cornucopia, The New Oxford Book of Food Plants overflows with information and is packed with beautiful, hand-painted illustrations of the worlds food plants. In an oversized format with alternating full-page color plates, readers will find a feast... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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California Natural History Guides #67: Introduction to Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon, and Washington by Philip A Munz Publisher Comments The diverse coastal habitats of the spectacular Pacific Coast include sandy beaches and dunes, salt- and freshwater marshes, coastal prairies and bluffs, riparian woodlands, and coniferous forests. This guide, first published nearly forty years ago, has... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nations history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Collins Complete Guide to British Wild Flowers: A Photographic Guide to Every Common Species (Collins Complete Photo Guides) Publisher Comments A complete photoguide to all the wild flowers of Britain, in the same format as the bestselling Complete British Wildlife. There are 1,039 main entries, which include wildflowers, shrubs, aquatic plants, grasses, sedges, and rushes. A botanical hotspots... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Trees & Forests of America by Tim Palmer Publisher Comments Trees & Forests of America is an unprecedented collection of 200 stunning photographs by award-winning author Tim Palmer. Along with breath-taking images, his expressive text celebrates the exquisite beauty of nature and explains why trees and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Botany Coloring Book (HarperCollins Coloring Books) by Paul G Young Publisher Comments The Botany Coloring Book is an exciting, new approach to learning botany. The structure and function of plants, a survey of the Plant Kingdom, and associated botanical terminology are all learned through the coloring process. Coloring provides an... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Childs Publisher Comments Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. As Craig Childs makes clear in this highly praised book, there are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst or drowning. His... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion by Mandy Kirkby Publisher Comments “A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.” Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet Publisher Comments Jack Nisbet first told the story of British explorer David Thompson, who mapped the Columbia River, in his acclaimed book Sources of the River, which set the standard for research and narrative biography for the region. Now Nisbet turns his attention to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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California Natural History Guides #68: Introduction to California Mountain Wildflowers by Philip A Munz Publisher Comments Many landscapes in Californias mountains are still relatively untouched by human activity and provide excellent opportunities for viewing wildflowers. This guidebook describes and illustrates the wildflowers that grow from the yellow pine belt up into... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments More mushrooms, less pollution! Yes, you heard right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment and mushroom expert Paul Stamets explains how in MYCELIUM RUNNING, a groundbreaking manual for saving the world through... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mushrooms: A Falcon Field Guide [Tm] (Falcon Field Guide) by Todd Telander Publisher Comments Mushrooms highlights 80 of the most common and sought-after mushroom species in North America. Detailed illustrations and descriptions of each mushrooms physical attributes make it easy to identify mushrooms, including the poisonous ones... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Trees: The Balance of Life, the Beauty of Nature by Pierre Lieutaghi Publisher Comments The old saying has it wrong: all too often we see the forest, but don't begin to appreciate the unique qualities of the trees. With 90 stunning photos from around the world, Trees celebrates these awe-inspiring gifts of nature. This extraordinary book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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