Product Description: ''The environmental movement as we know it was forged in the fight against Hetch Hetchy Dam. No previous debate over the American landscape had so engaged and enraged the American public. The Sierra Club and other opponents helped stir this sentiment and their campaign to preserve Hetch Hetchy became the prototypical environmental campaign...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: California’s “Fourteeners”—Mount Whitney, Mount Shasta, and the loftiest peaks of the High Sierra—have long teased the imaginations and challenged the fortitude of mountaineers. Photographer and mountaineer David Stark Wilson captures the treacherous beauty of these summits and the surrounding panorama, evoking a broad range of emotion—from excitement and allure to a quieter sense of peace, respect, and awe...read more

An account of Keiko the orca's life in captivity describes his capture as a two-year-old calf, difficulties in an unsuitable environment at a Mexico City amusement park, celebrity status after the Free Willy movies, and controversial rescue. 30,000 first printing.

Describes how California winemaker Sam Sebastiani restored a field on his property to its natural condition, a freshwater marsh, with the help of Ducks Unlimited, creating a ninety-acre preserve that is home to 156 species of birds and other wildlife. (view table of contents)

A first-person narrative takes readers to Yosemite National Park, describing the mountains, rivers, and valleys, and its variety of plants and animals

A region-by-region tour of the fifty states of America furnishes nine impressionistic, personal essays--accompanied by full-color photographs and maps--that evoke the flavor of the diverse regions of the country. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: A narrative of Micronesia and the two men responsible for conserving its ecosystem.

Addresses current environmental issues and shows the many ways people around the world are working together to save the planet

An account of the lives and relationship of a renowned astrophysicist, intent on creating a hydrogen-bomb-propelled starship, and his wilderness-loving son, equally intent on building a sixty-foot Aleut sail canoe

Passages from the writings of such figures as Paul Gauguin, Ernest Hemingway, and Somerset Maugham supplement text and landscape photographs depicting the beauty and simplicity of the threatened Pacific paradise