Nature category: 119170 books
On Trails
An Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club
From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard,...
by Aldo Leopold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an...
by David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
"Sure to become a game-changing guide to the future of good food and healthy landscapes." —Dan Barber, chef and author of The Third Plate
Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health—for people and...
The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth
Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A living tradition of nature spirituality rooted in Celtic antiquity and revived to meet the challenges of contemporary life Druidry offers people a path of harmony through reconnection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook is the first hands-on manual of traditional British Druid practice that...
Fire Season
Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.”
—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar
“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.”
—Walter...
How to Read Water
Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016
Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian—with a little help from the “natural navigator”!
In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural...
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting with dazzling elegance...
The Thing with Feathers
The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets...
Islands, the Universe, Home
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy “that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Gretel Ehrlich’s world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these elements give life to her stunning prose. Ever...
Tropical Nature
Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest.
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats,...
The Road Is How
A Prairie Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of waiting for his body to heal. The Road is How re-enchants our modern map of desire,...
by George Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
George MacDonald was a Scottish poet, writer and Minister of the nineteenth century. He is known for his fantastic stories. In this book, MacDonald describes the miracles through his faith in God. All miracles can be observed in nature, which is closely connected to the divine origin of all things....
Homo Mysterious:Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects...
by John Sorenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Apes—to look at them is to see a mirror of ourselves. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behavior and social personality. Here, John Sorenson delves into our conflicted relationship to the great apes, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does...