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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold  Publisher Comments Once again HighBridge is pleased to offer an extraordinary collection from leading American nature authors. Originally published by NorthWord Audio Press, now re-released with new packaging, each story explores the bond that connects the land and humans....
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments " We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape...
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Illinois Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist)
by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments Illinois Trees and Wildflowers is an easily accessible field reference manual to familiar trees and wildflowers found in this state. This durable folding guide, printed on laminate material, is an essential resource for any level of nature...
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On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher's Journey Among Mountain People, Streams, and Trout
by Harry Middleton Publisher Comments The entrancing new work by Harry Middleton, the author of the popular The Earth Is Enough. This is a fisherman's appreciation of the wonderfully wild Great Smoky Mountains which straddle the Tennessee-North Carolina border, and includes lyrical accounts...
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Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists—and have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up...
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Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert (00 Edition)
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...
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Teaching a Stone To Talk
by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings....
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A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
by Gary Snyder Publisher Comments In this classic collection of 29 pieces that span half a century, Gary Snyder explores humans’ complex, ever-evolving attitudes toward the environment. He argues that nature is not separate from humanity, but intrinsic to it, and that since...
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The Immense Journey (Vintage)
by Loren Eiseley Publisher Comments Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man....
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Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark
by Barbara Hurd Publisher Comments In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces -- with their stalactites and...
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The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences)
by John Muir Laws Publisher Comments A comprehensive, breathtaking guide for users to identify commonly encountered organisms in the Sierra foothills and mountains, fully illustrated and field tested by Academy of Sciences nature illustration teacher Jack Laws....
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Back on the Fire: Essays
by Gary Snyder Publisher Comments This collection of essays by Gary Snyder, now in paperback, blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, Snyder employs fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences, and our spirits...
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Soul of Nowhere
by Craig Childs Publisher Comments Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he is drawn to it. For Childs, these are the types of terrain that sharpen the senses, and demand a physicality the modern civilized world no longer requires....
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What Are People For? (90 Edition)
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called “the prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry...
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Indian Creek Chronicles : a Winter Alone in the Wilderness (93 Edition)
by Pete Fromm Publisher Comments Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award," Indian Creek Chronicles" is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a...
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Country Year : Living the Questions ((Rev)86 Edition)
by Sue Hubbell
Powells.com Staff Pick Sue Hubbell makes me yearn to be a beekeeper in the Ozarks — to rely on a place for my survival and my happiness. Divorced and alone on her hundred acre farm, Hubbell heals as she writes about her work as a commercial beekeeper and her peninsula...
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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones
by Sue Hubbell Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, Hubbell journeys into the remarkable lives of the little-known creatures that really run the world--the animals without backbones, including one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all, "Aphrodite" the sea mouse....
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Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age
by Ted Kerasote Publisher Comments WINNER, 2004 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD! (Outdoor Literature) Who hasnt wanted to get away from cell phones, e-mail, roads, and traffic? And what better place to escape our wired world than the far northwestern corner of Canadas Northwest Territories...
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Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee Publisher Comments "Coming into the Country "is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with...
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
by Ellen Meloy Publisher Comments In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise -- the color and the gem -- to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.<P>From the Sierra Nevada to the Yucatan to the...
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