Product Description: Growing up on a Connecticut farm in the 1800s, Frederick Olmsted loved roaming the outdoors. A contest to design the nation’s first city park opened new doors for Olmsted when his winning design became New York’s Central Park, just one of Olmsted's ideas that changed our nation's cities...read more

Tells the thrilling adventure of how John Muir set off to explore a glacier with the unwelcome accompaniment of Stickeen, a friend's dog, and ran into a storm, but Stickeen's perseverance, determination, and companionship on that terrifying day made Muir see domestic animals in a new light.

Louisa May Alcott finds a friend in her elder neighbor, Henry David Thoreau, and learns from him how to capture one's thoughts and find one's own inspirations on paper, in a charming picture book set in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, life cycle, and conservation of horseshoe crabs

Relates the life of the ornithologist whose finest work took place in her back yard and whose final hope was that others would share her love of nature study.

Recounts the life and career of nature photographer Ansel Adams, whose work for the Sierra Club helped to increase public interest in wilderness preservation

Recounts the life of the man who designed New York City's Central Park

Recounts Leopold's work in erosion control and game management in the 1930s and traces the influence of his book, A Sand County Almanac ,on the American environmental movement.