Provides over eight hundred and fifty terms that describe American landscape by forty-five well-known writers, including Jon Krakauer, Terry Tempest Williams, Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Frazier, and Robert Hass.

Product Description: Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores...read more

Product Description: "The ice is melting in the north," writes Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onanadaga Nation, in an oration to world leaders that begins this collection. His words are a call for humanity to heal a wound in our relationship to the natural world...read more

A collection of writings by such contributors as Ursula Le Guin, David Orr, and Mark Dowie evaluates the role of human nature as both a key and obstacle in achieving environmental goals, in a volume that explores such topics as America's incarnation society, spiritual ecology, and the military-industrial landscape. Original.

Product Description: More than two dozen contemporary novelists, essayists, and poets are collected in this remarkable collection of work from Australia, a complex country with a multi layered history. Among these outstanding writers is a growing number of Indigenous authors, whose voices are included here...read more

Follows the stories of nine individuals who resist the mainstream only to catch the government's attention, from a traveling carpenter who commits an act of violence to a blind Vietnam veteran's coming to terms with the loss of his innocence. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.Humankind's relationship with the wolf is based on a spectrum of responses running from fear to admiration and affection...read more

A National Book Award finalist, originally published twenty-five years ago, examines the relationship between wolves and humans throughout history, drawing on a range of historical, mythological, and literary sources to discuss what wolves represent to people and present a case for their protection.

A collection of fiction and nonfiction writings by the National Book Award-winning author and naturalist includes the prologue from Arctic Dreams, along with such essays as 'Landscape and Narrative,' 'The American Geographies,' 'Flight,' and 'Learning to See,' and selected short fiction. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: An awe inspiring and thought provoking book!

Product Description: Rick Bartow (b. 1946) is a Native American artist who lives and works on the Oregon coast, yet has built a remarkable web of connections with other artists and art traditions around the world. The book includes pastel drawings, paintings, and mixed media sculptures that reveal the rich and multiple sources of Bartow's wildly beautiful imagery...read more

A portrait of the landscape, animals, and people of the Arctic captures the beauty and peril of this harsh region and explains what an understanding of this unknown land means to the modern, urbanized world.

Product Description: The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures.

Lush full-color photography combines with essays from some of America's leading nature writers in an evocative celebration of America's natural wonders, with contributions from Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland, Art Wolfe, Scott Russell Sanders, George Huey, Linda Hogan, and others. 20,000 first printing.

The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us his first major work of nonfiction in a decade: a collection of spellbinding new essays which, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man.From the publication of his bestselling Of Wolves and Men and the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez established himself as that rare writer whose every book is an event, both with critics and among his enormous readership. In About This Life he assembles essays of great wisdom and insight: far-flung travel (remote Hokkaido Island in Japan; the Galápagos) and naturalist provocations (why do we deprive people with intimate knowledge of the land -- small farmers, Indians, native Hawaiians, cowboys -- of political power?); pure adventure (a dizzying series of around-the-world journeys with air freight -- everything from penguins to pianos); as well as never-before-published Rilkesque memory pieces that represent his most personal work to date.A book at once vastly erudite yet intimate, a magically written work by a major writer at the top of his form.

An acclaimed nature writer evokes and celebrates the forces, settings, rituals, movements, and imperatives of a river, as it calls us back to unity with the natural world

Crow and Weasel, two young men from the northern plains, set out to tracel father than their people have ever traveled, crossing rivers and mountains, encountering danger, and learning the meaning of friendship.

The author presents a series of essays in which he addresses such topics as travel to some of the world's most distant destinations, nature, adventure, and personal reminiscences.