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Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Abbey's classic "celebration of the beauty of living in a harsh and hostile land" first published in 1968, with essays inspired by living at Arches National Monument in Utah, but going beyond to other topics in the high desert and mountains of the southwest.
A Touchstone Book (Simon & Schuster), 1990. 269 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
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Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Abbey's 1968 classic in pocketbook format.
Ballantine Books, 1971. 337 pages, about 4 x 7 inches, paperback. New.
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Edward Abbey, Down the River
First published in 1982, the book is perhaps best described by the author himself, "For over twenty-three years now I've been floating rivers. Always downstream, the easy and natural way. The way Huck Finn and Jim did it, La Salle and Marquette, the mountain men, and Major
A Plume Book, 1991. 242 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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Claude T. Barnes, The Natural History of a Mountain Year: Four Seasons in the Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range of Utah forms a backdrop for many the largest cities of the state, including Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Provo. The author, a mammalogist and ornithologist who was also a general naturalist (and lawyer and businessman) made frequent field trips into them from the 20s to the 50s and kept a keenly observant record of his trips, and from them he has chosen the most interesting for each day of the year. Since the region has changed radically since then, the journals form an invaluable record of the way things were.
University of Utah Press, 1996. 385 pages, illus., about 5½ x 8½, paperback. New, bargain remainder.
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Frank Bergon, editor, The Wilderness Reader
An anthology of the writings of 26 conservationists including Abbey, Audubon, Austin, Bartram, Byrd, Carson, Fremont, Leopold, McPhee, Muir, Parkman, Powell, Stegner, Teale, and Thoreau.
University of Nevada Press, 1994 (originally published 1980). 372 pages, about 5 x 8½, paperback. New.
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Tom Brown, Jr., with Brandt Morgan, Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
"This unique volume teaches us the basics of sight, smell, and taste; it shows us how to become one with nature, and how to receive all the signs and signals of the multitude of living creatures with whom we share the beauty and bounty of the wilderness."
Berkley, 1983. 282 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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Tom Brown, Jr., as told to William Jon Walkins, The Tracker
The first book telling the story of how a New Jersey boy living in the Pine Barrens met a friend's grandfather, an Apache tracker, and learned the ways of tracking and living in the wilds. The publisher tries to associate this story with Carlos Castaneda's books, but the only thing they have in common is the general idea of a student/teacher relationship between a Westerner and a traditional Native American teacher. The similarity ends there.
Castaneda's work is fuzzy on details of the landscapes he visits; Brown is a keen observer of nature. Castaneda deals with "separate realities" and a fantastic view of the possibilities of radically-altered consciousness (which his detractors view as an elaborate hoax which were designed to get him his UCLA professorship); Brown is squarely in conventional reality, but gives appreciating it a tremendous boost with the special discipline of tracking (one can be skeptical of some of Brown's claims in his books, but as a naturalist, I find that his descriptions ring true). Castaneda's persona as a narrator was self-effacing and detached, and in life was publicity shy, saying that personal history restricted one's freedom; Brown is enthusiastic about what he's learned and thrives on telling his story. Friends and acquaintances who have taken his tracking class have remarked on how full of himself he seems to be. He does seem to sincerely believe that Grandfather's tracking art was the best in the world, and since the death of the Apache, he is the top living practitioner of this ancient skill.
Ego or no, his is a fascinating story, and will give you new insight not only into survival skills, but an appreciation for the wildlands of (for crying out loud) New Jersey. (Ignore the cover art, showing Brown and Grandfather in a southwestern landscape—all the lessons take place in the Pine Barrens.) Finally it will give you a real appreciation for the life-saving potential of tracking, as when Brown finds a retarded man lost for five days in the woods.
Berkley Books, 1979. 229 pages, about 4 x 7 inches, paperback. New.
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Kit Chubb, The Avian Ark: Tales from a Wild-bird Hospital
"Bird lovers will find Kit Chubb's book vastly entertaining and informing. Others who read it will probably become bird lovers themselves."—Farley Mowat
Hungry Mind Press, 1995. 157 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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John Hay (editor), The Great House of Birds
An anthology of writings about birds, at least one dating back 2000 years though mostly from the last two centuries, and including contemporary authors. The selections range in length from about one to ten pages, and are grouped in six sections: 1) Flight, 2) The Language of Birds, 3) Art and Ritual, 4) Birds and the American Land, 5) Birds of the Sea, and 6) The Migrants. Each selection is introduced by the editor.
Noted authors reprinted in this collection include Mary Austin, Alexander Skutch, Konrad Lorenz, Pablo Neruda, Terry Tempest Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Donald Culross Peattie, Annie Dillard, Bernd Heinrich, E.O. Wilson, John Muir, Niko Tinbergen, Gary Nabhan, John James Audubon, Charles Darwin, Rachel Carson, Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, and more.
Published by Sierra Club Books, 1996. 306 pages, about 6 x 8½ inches, bargain remainder hardcover. New.
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Richard Headstrom, Adventures with a Hand Lens
“With an ordinary magnifying glass and this book as your guide, 50 adventures in close observation await you. These entertaining nature studies take you on field trips in and around your home, calling attention to interesting features of dozens of familiar or overlooked plants, insects and other animals, and common materials like cloth, quartz and the paper on which this book is printed.
“A great deal of basic natural-science theory and detail is presented in this delightful narrative. Flowers and grasses, fish scales, moth and [other] insect wings, egg cases, buds, feathers, seeds, leaf scars, moss, molds, ferns, common crystals are among the many structures examined, often comparatively. Many natural processes and behavior patterns are observed—seed dispersal and other methods of reproduction, protective coloration, rusting, symbiosis, fertilization of the soil, breathing and case-building of insects, and many others, all with only an inexpensive hand lens as equipment and with ‘specimens’ you probably pass by going for a walk. More than 200 labeled illustrations accompany the text.”
This book is directed toward kids in about the sixth grade and up, but can be used as a guide for teachers or parents for ideas on exploring with younger kids. Adults who happen to be true naturalists—who find the appeal of exploring everyday objects overcomes the slightly condescending tone of chapters titled (for example) “We See How Ants Keep Clean,” “We Spy on the Aphids,” and “We Turn Our Attention to Some Buds.” In fact, much of the terminology it introduces you to is quite technical, so despite the chapter headings, this book was written before the current practice of “dumbing down” books for kids or laypeople. There is truly much here for naturalists of all ages.
Published by Dover Publications, 1976. 220 pages, illus., about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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Bernie Krause, Wild Soundscapes:
Discovering the Voice of the Natural World
Includes an audio CD featuring sample soundscapes and narrated field techniques.
This book introduces “you to the exciting world of natural sound where you will learn to listen to creature choruses and discover the fun of creating nature sound recordings. Bernie Krause teaches you the tricks of a nature sound recordist’s trade, making it easy for you to encounter the natural wild in a totally new way.”
Wilderness Press, 2002. 168 pages, paperback, about 6 X 9 inches. Includes 55 minute long CD. New.
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Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac; and Sketches Here and There
Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz.
The classic work of environmentalism and ecological consciousness: eloquent yet unpretentious, fine descriptions of wildlife interactions along with visionary reflections.
Oxford Paperbacks, first published 1949, and in paperback 1968; 55th printing. 226 pages, illus., about 5½ x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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John McPhee, The Control of Nature
This book is McPhee's "account of places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature. In Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has declared war on the lower Mississippi River, which threatens to follow a new route to the sea and cut off New Orleans and Baton Rouge from the rest of the United States. Icelanders confront flowing red lava in an attempt to save a crucial harbor. In Los Angeles, basins are built to catch devastating debris flows from the San Gabriel Mountains.
"Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her—stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters."
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. 272 pages, illus., about 5½ x 8¼ inches, paperback. New.
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John McPhee, The Founding Fish
This book is "a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume.
"Each spring, American shad—Alosa sapidissima—leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee—a shad fisherman himself—recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with famous ichthyologists and visits their laboratories; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. 358 pages, about 5½ x 8¼ inches, paperback. New.
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Alexander C. Martin, Herbert S. Zim, and Albert L. Nelson, American Wildlife & Plants: A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits: The Use of Trees, Shrubs, Weeds and Herbs by Birds and Mammals of the United States
A key tool for naturalists and ecologists, this book fills a niche occupied by no other. It gives a succinct summary of exactly what each of over 1000 species of birds and mammals eat, with special attention to plants used as food; and (in the second major section) what birds and mammals eat which genera of plants. Other books may list the general kinds of foods a particular animal eats, or give a general idea of how valuable a plant is as food for wildlife, but this book gets specific.
After about 40 pages of introductory material, the book is divided into two major sections: First, the wildlife entries, second the plant entries. The first part is divided into nine chapters, the first five of which divide bird species into convenient groups: waterbirds, marshbirds and shorebirds, upland gamebirds, songbirds, and birds of prey. The next three chapters are on mammals: fur and game, small, and hoofed browsers. The last chapter in the animal section briefly covers fish, amphibians, and reptiles in general terms. Most of the entries include range maps, and many include a detailed line drawing of the animal, and some include charts showing seasonal variations in proportions of plant foods eaten by each, based on studies of stomach contents. Plant foods are named and given ratings depending on how important each are to the species, annotated with seasonal variations and regional importance.
The next section covers plants useful to wildlife. They are listed by genus. The notes tell how many species belong to each genus and how many wildlife users they have. Then a list of bird and mammals species known to eat the plant is given, with ratings according to importance. As with the wildlife section, many entries are accompanied by line drawings and range maps.
A final chapter rates each wildlife plant genus according to value to wildlife. For example, among woody plants, oaks are used by more species of wildlife than any other. The rankings are further divided by region. In this section you learn, for example, that while oaks retain their number one ranking in the eastern and central states, they are ranked number two in the Pacific states and the Mountain-Desert region, replaced by pines.
Dover Publications, 1961 (first published 1951). 500 pages, illus., about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
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Peter Matthiessen, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
Paintings and Drawings by Robert Bateman
“In legends, cranes often figure as sentinels of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an ‘umbrella species’—one whose well-being assures that of the ecosystem at large. The Birds of Heaven chronicles Peter Matthiessen’s many journeys on five continents in search of the fifteen species of cranes. His telling captures the dilemmas of a planet in ecological crisis, and the deep loss to humankind if these beautiful and imposing creatures are allowed to disappear.”
Includes 19 pages in color of Robert Bateman’s elegant paintings, plus several of his drawings interspersed with the text.
North Point Press, 2003 (first published 2001). 347 pages, illus., about 5½ x 8 inches. Paperback. New.
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Peter Matthiessen, Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark
Penguin Nature Classics series
"Chronicles the search over thousands of miles of ocean for the most dangerous predator on earth: the legendary Great White
Penguin, 1997 (first published 1971). 204 pages, about 5 x 7¾ inches, paperback. New.
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Peter Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
Penguin Nature Classics series
“For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of his journey he followed the trails of old explorers, encountered river bandits, wild tribesman, and the evidence of ancient ruins, and discovered a fossilized snout of a giant unknown crocodilian hidden in the depths of the jungle on the wild mountain rivers of Peru.
“Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of this vast world to the south, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessen’s incisive, wry report of his expedition into some of the last and most exotic wild terrains in the world.”
Penguin Books (Penguin Nature Classics), 1996 (first published 1961). 280 pages, illus., about 5 x 7½ inches. Paperback. New.
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Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Penguin Nature Classics series
"In 1973 Peter Matthiessen and the field biologist George Schaller went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. They undertook their trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes, and five weeks were required to reach their destination. For Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, there was a spiritual quest as well, for he hoped to find the revered Lama of Shey at the ancient Buddhist shrine on the Crystal Mountain. Any trip is an experience that tests the life of the traveler. But this one especially was a real passage, unfolding and revealing the narrator and his world."
Penguin, 1987 (first published 1978). 338 pages, about 5 x 7¾ inches, paperback. New.
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Peter Matthiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born
Penguin Nature Classics series
The author “exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of wild herdsmen; the drama of predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals across breathtaking landscapes; the area’s turbulent natural, political, and social histories; the adventures of the field biologists who pursue and investigate the habits of wild creatures; the anthropologists seeking man’s origins throughout the Rift Valley; and the lonely Africa, poised between te traditional ways and the conflicting demands of Western culture.”
Published by Penguin Books, 1995 reprint (first published 1972). 430 pages, about 5 x 7½ inches, paperback. New.
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John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Foreword by Colin Fletcher.
In 1867, after recovering from a blinding accident while employed in an Indiana factory, 28-year-old John Muir set off on a walk southwards, to botanize the woodlands of the post-war southeast, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, and from there to Cuba, Panama, and to San Francisco, California. This book contains selections from his journal of the time, with some appended works from letters to cover his entry into California.
In his Foreword, Colin Fletcher admits that despite (or because?) of being compared to Muir, he didn't, at first, take to Muir's writings, of which he never could read more than a few pages. But after about three decades of not reading Muir, he gave him another try and found the Muir revealed in these pages more to his liking, with Muir's own unpolished words revealing the man behind the labels he has been given.
Published by Sierra Club Books, 1992 (Third printing). 126 pages, about 5½ x 8¼ inches, paperback. New.
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Chris Highland, Compiler and Editor, Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple
“John Muir’s exuberance for nature was the touchstone for his commitment to the earth and all its creatures. As naturalist, writer, and activist, Muir shaped the spiritual and physical boundaries of some of our most treasured national parks.
“Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes [generally about a half to three-quarters of a page long] with selections [usually only one line] from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts.”
I’m very impressed at how the other quotes, which include examples from Biblical, Koranic, Buddhist, and Hindu works, as well as from individuals throughout history, add further dimension to Muir’s thoughts and experiences.
Published by Wilderness Press, 2001 (2003 printing). 145 pages, illus. with several evocative photos, about 4½ x 7 inches, paperback. New.
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Fred D. White, Editor, Essential Muir
The editor has extracted a selection of John Muir's writings (including some from periodicals that are not often reprinted in volumes such as this) and grouped them in five parts representative of the breadth of Muir's talents: 1) The Visionary Inventory. 2) The Wandering Minstrel. 3)The Nature Scribe and Rhapsode. 4) The Global Adventurer. 5) The Planet Steward.
Published by Santa Clara University and Heyday Books, 2006. 131 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
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Nancy Eileen Muleady-Mecham, Park Ranger: True Stories from a Ranger's Career in America's National Parks
If your idea of the job of a National Park Service Ranger is one of leading nature tours, asking visitors to pick up their litter and not pick the wildflowers, and fixing trails, then this book will be a real eye-opener. Park Service Protection Rangers, such as the author, are law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, firefighters, and more. With some of the most sublime landscapes in the nation as a backdrop, they deal with some of the same problems as their urban counterparts, but often with less backup help and remote locations.
This book includes many accounts, both interesting and exciting, of incidents in Nancy's career in many parks, including Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Death Valley, and especially Grand Canyon National Park. If you were ever considering working as a law enforcement Park Ranger, she gives you plenty of detail to understand exactly the kind of skills the job demands. If not, you will come away with a new appreciation for the fine people who fill these positions.
Vishnu Temple Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2004. 244 pages, about 5½ x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
"The geography and natural history of childhood begins in family, at home, whether that home is in a remote place or in a city. Many naturalists start their journeys on ditchbanks, in empty lots—in any open space just beyond the backyard fence. In our essays here, we consider the influences that natural settings, native plants, and wild animals have on toddlers and teenagers; on girls as well as boys; on families and community traditions; and on a variety of cultures, not just those characterized as 'the Western World.' Simply put, we are concerned about how few children now grow up incorporating plants, animals, and places into their sense of home." —From the authors' Preface.
Beacon Press, 1994. 184 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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Fred Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
"In this groundbreaking exploration of the impending world water crisis, veteran environmental reporter Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. He provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramification for us all."
Published by Beacon Press, 2006. 324 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-eye View of the World
Pollan "ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed
Published by Random House, 2001. 271 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
"Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species."
Published by Penguin Books, 2007. 450 pages, about 5½ x 8¼ inches, paperback. New.
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David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
"In my opinion, Quammen is the finest Natural History writer there is, and The Song of the Dodo is his most important work. In it, he draws on the findings of a rather obscure realm of science—island biogeography—and applies those findings to conservation principles worldwide.
"Basically, island biogeography is the study of life on islands, particularly the fauna. One basic tenet is that the smaller the island, the fewer species it will contain (less biodiversity), and the smaller the chance of harboring large creatures whose habitat requirements demand large areas. Despite the fact that speciation and evolution have taken some wondrous forms on islands, one theme stands out above everything else: Islands are a dead-end road; islands are where species go to die.
"Having exposed the reader to island biogeography and its findings, Quammen looks at wildlife conservation efforts on the mainland, and what he sees troubles him greatly—areas set aside as National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, sanctuaries, etc. These are all well-intentioned, he argues, but inadequate, especially for protecting large mammals, for what we are really doing is creating "islands" of disconnected, fragmented habitat. Even a 2.2 million acre "island" like Yellowstone will not naturally sustain a grizzly population for the long haul. Without connecting these sanctuaries, we're deluding ourselves.
"Quammen's brilliance is in taking these ideas out of academia and the general parlance of biology, and foisting them onto the general public through this book. Anyone to whom biodiversity means anything at all must read this book."—Joseph Belli, store supporter.
Touchstone, 1997. 702 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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C.L. Rawlins, Broken Country: Mountains & Memory
Finding a place of understanding in Wyoming's remote Salt River Range, while looking after a herd of sheep.
Henry Holt, 1996. 279 pages, about 6½ x 9½ inches, hardcover. New, remainder.
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Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
"Simply a masterpiece. Reisner tells the fascinating story of water development in the West, and he leaves no stone unturned.
"He examines attitudes and policies from the 19th century until contemporary times. The sordid tale of Los Angeles' plundering of the Owens River is fully documented here; the rise of the Bureau of Reclamation and its subsequent competition with the Army Corps of Engineers is given center stage; the subsidization of environmentally destructive water projects by the federal government for wealthy agri-business conglomerates are shown in shocking detail. Throughout this epic book, he persuasively and consistently shows how unsustainable and short-sighted our water policies have been, that we've encouraged waste and abuse of our water resources rather than emphasizing conservation. He does this all in a very fluid, readable style—I couldn't put it down. . ."—Joseph Belli, store supporter
Penguin, 1993 (revised edition). 582 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
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Lester Rowntree, Hardy Californians: A Woman's Life with Native Plants
A 1936 classic, reprinted and expanded, is a chronicle of a remarkable adventuring woman who, at the age of 52 left a comfortable middle-class existence to travel the wildlands of California alone, studying wild plants, collecting and selling their seeds, and writing about their attributes and how to grow them in the garden. This new edition includes a bigraphical sketch about Rowntree's life written by her two grandsons (one of whom shares her name and both of whom have felt her influence in their careers as professors in the biological sciences). It also includes a table updating the botanical names in the work, and an essay by Judith Lowry on Rowntree's horticultural legacy. The original black and white photographs of the work have been reproduced anew from the author's original negatives (crisp, clear images that you appreciate all the more when you understand that Rowntree used a large format camera hauled into the mountains by burro!).
University of California Press, 2006. 308 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
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John and Mildred Teal, Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
Audubon/Ballantine, 1969. 274 pages, about 4¼ x 7 inches, paperback. Used, good condition; pages yellowed but unmarked.
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Henry David Thoreau, The Illustrated World of Thoreau
Edited by Howard Chapnick; words by Thoreau, photographs by Ivan Massar. An album of contemporary (well, mid '70s) photographs arranged among passages from Henry David.
Grosset and Dunlap, 1974. 174 pages, about 8½ x 11 inches, hardcover. Used, dust jacket with a few minor rips.
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Dover, 1995 (originally published 1854). Unabridged. 216 pages, about 5 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
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