Product Description: A Gathering of Birds is an anthology containing selected prose about birds by nineteen famous authors, such as Hudson, Audubon, and Thoreau, and includes brief biographical information about each. The New York Times called the collection “a delightful ‘gathering’ that Mr...read more

An informative overview of more than one hundred different tree species describes their physical characteristics, ranges, and the role they played in the history of America.

Product Description: An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to “appeal to the ordinary lover of nature ...read more

Product Description: Even a diehard urbanite would likely be seduced by this extraordinary chronicle of the plant kingdom... " ―Publishers Weekly... much more than the fascinating story of plant life... It is also a book about the resilience of life itself, the mystery and power of the unseen energy appearing in the visible world in a marvelous variety of forms...read more

Gives the economic facts regarding the great stands of timber of western North America and identifies over two hundred species of tree

Gives the economic facts regarding the trees of northeastern North America and identifies a wide variety of species