Product Catalog

Science & Natural History

Individual titles:

• Adirondack Wildguide: A Natural History of the Adirondack Park
• Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire - Reveals the background, early inspiration, and triumphs of Aldo Leopold.
• Allagash: Maine's Wild and Scenic River
• Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas - After laborious training and preparation, Kincaid and a group of botanists trek the Himalayas.
• Animal: The Definitive Guide to the World's Wildlife - by David Burnie
• Antarctica: The Blue Continent - Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography, wildlife, and history
• The Appalachian Trail Reader - edited by David Emblidge
• Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth - by Robert Leonard Reid
• Arctic Refuge : A Circle of Testimony (Literature for a Land Ethic ) - by Hank Lentfer
• Audubon: Early Drawings
• Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work - Essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers
• Big Sur to Big Basin: California's Dramatic Central Coast
• Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod - by Robert Finch
• Coral Reefs: Of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and Florida - by Alfonso Silva Lee
• The Cruise of the Corwin: Muir's Final Great Journey - The story of Muir's journey 15,000 nautical miles from San Francisco into the Artic Sea.
• Dancing at the Red Sea - Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots
• Death of the Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays - by Robert Finch
• Defining the Wind - by Scott Huler
• Dersu the Trapper
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness - by Edward Abbey
• Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest - by Diana Kappel-Smith
• Doctor Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation - by Olivia Judson
• Down the River - by Edward Abbey
• Downcanyon - by Ann Zwinger
• East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas - Examines a succession of beautiful but little-known towns along this cordillera
• Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing - A gathering of works by some of the region's best nature writers
• The Enchanted Isles - Melville's writings form a series of evocative sketches of each of the Galapagos Islands
• Encounters with the Archdruid
• Ends of the Earth:: Anthology of the Finest Writings on the Arctic & Antarctic - by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Eternal Frontier : An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples - by Tim Flannery
• Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival - by Carl Safina
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change - Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, "New Yorker" writer Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming.
• For Everything There Is a Season - by Frank C. Craighead
• From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin
• Fruitless Fall: Collapse of the Honey Bee - by Rowan Jacobsen
• Galapagos: Smithsonian Natural History - by John C. Kricher
• Galapagos, Worlds End - by Wiliam Beebe
• Glacier: A Natural History Guide - A fascinating and intimate portrait of one of the world's last truly wild places
• Gorillas in the Mist - The story of Fossey's years studying mountain gorillas in the rainforests of Rwanda.
• Grand Canyon: Little Things in a Big Place - Examines things that often go unnoticed against the backdrop of overwhelming grandeur of the Grand Canyon
• The Great Divide: A Biography of the Rocky Mountains - by Gary Ferguson
• The Great Naturalists - The story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the worlds greatest naturalists
• Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica - How a large group of Costa Rican and American scientists and volunteers set out to save the tropical forests in Costa Rica.
• Hispaniola:: A Photographic Journey Through Island Biodiversity
• History of the Sierra Nevada - Indispensable for any lover of the high country
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded:: Why We Need a Green Revolution - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• The House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir - by Wyman Richardson
• In the Maine Woods - by Henry David Thoreau
• Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester - by Mark Kurlansky
• The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World - Intimate images as well as authoritative essays about the polar bear in the context of climate change
• A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World - Brimming with insight and humor, these compositions offer new perspectives on personal identity in relation to nature
• Life: A Journey Through Time - Planet Earth's amazing biodiversity.
• Lords and Lemurs - by Alison Jolly
• Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest - by Richard Nelson
• The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon - The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon
• Monster of God: Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind - Explores the natures of man-eating predators and the variety of human attitudes toward them through sources as diverse as prehistoric cave paintings, "Beowulf," and the "Alien" movies.
• Most Excellent Majesty: A History of Mount Greylock
• National Geographic's Guide to Wildlife Watching
• Natural History of Boston's North Shore - A beautifully illustrated guide to the flora, fauna, and geology of Boston's North Shore for readers of all ages.
• The Natures of John and William Bartram - by Thomas P. Slaughter
• New Zealand: A Natural History - A well-illustrated survey of the geography, flora and fauna of New Zealand, an area of unique species
• North Woods: An Inside Look at the Nature of Forests in the Northeast - by Peter J. Marchand
• Northeastern Wilds: Journeys of Discovery in the Northern Forest - An unforgettable visual and literary journey through this little-known region's rich history, geography, and culture.
• On the Origin of Species:: An Illustrated Edition
• Oranges - by John McPhee
• On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition - by Charles Darwin
• Our Changing Planet: The View from Space - Combines science and beautiful imagery of the changing Earth
• Our National Parks - Muir's valentine to the national parks of the American West
• The Path : A 1 Mile Walk Through the Universe - Raymo describes the one-mile walk he has taken every day for the past 40 years, exploring in-depth its natural features and historic relevance.
• Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa - A chance to follow two of the finest chroniclers of our place in nature
• Pine Barrens - by John McPhee
• The Primal Place - A personal odyssey into the nature of a single Cape Cod neighborhood
• Rainforests
• Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
• Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert - Analyzes the wildlife, human characters, and Anasazi petroglyphs of the red-rock landscape surrounding her home outside Moab
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin - A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it.
• Remarkable Trees of the World - by Thomas Pakenham
• Riviera Nature Notes - Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising these "Notes" give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the 20th century.
• Roadless Yaak: Reflections about One of Our Last Great Wild Places - by Rick Bass
• Sable Island - Sable Island-- in the midst of the worst weather in the North Atlantic--is a 30-mile-long sand dune that illuminates grand and global themes, both human and natural.
• Salt Tide: Currents of Nature and Life on the Virginia Coast - by Curtis J. Badger
• A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River
• Searching for Yellowstone - An absolute "must read" for anyone wanting to understand why the park is engraved in the American consciousness
• The Secret Life of Lobsters - A rollicking oceanic odyssey punctuated by salt spray, melted butter, and predators lurking in the murky depths.
• Seen and Unseen: Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone - A spectacular and colorful look through the microscope at the minute organisms that underlie Yellowstone.
• The Singing Wilderness - Olson tells his story through descriptions of the simple events in nature that bring meaning to his life
• Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches - Fredston captures the overwhelming force of avalanches from a panorama of perspectives
• Socotra : A Natural History of the Islands and their People
• The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions - by David Quammen
• Special Places: On Cape Cod and the Islands - by Robert Finch
• Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey - by Jim Reed
• Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail - by Ian Marshall
• Suicidal Planet:: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe - An outstanding overview on global warming--and what we can do about it--from a distinguished world-class authority"
• Superorganism:: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insects - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rainforest - by Elizabeth Royte
• Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent - Fox brings to life a place that few have seen and offers us a look into both the nature of landscape and ourselves
• This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains - A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf - A wonderful portrait of a young man in search of himself and a particularly vivid portrait of the post-war American South
• Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals - by Michael Novacek
• Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past: Eight Self-Guided Walking Tours Through New York City - Explores New York City through its unique archaeological underpinnings
• Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion - Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science
• Tree of Rivers: Story of the Amazon
• The Tree Where Man Was Born - The exploration of the origins of man in Africa's Great Rift Valley.
• The Trees in My Forest - by Bernd Heinrich
• Tropical Nature
• Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region - edited by Kim Alan Chapman
• Voyage of the Beagle - by Charles Darwin
• Wandering Home - The author walks from his home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the two landscapes
• Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion & Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - by Jonathan Waterman
• Wild Australasia - An illustrated natural history of Australia and related remote islands
• Wild Places - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
• Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather - Starts with the wind gods of ancient times and continues to today's high-tech schemes to control hurricanes.
• The World Without Us - A penetrating take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
• Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century - From eco-building to responsible shopping, political action to humanitarian relief, this work puts the power to solve problems into the readers' hands.
• Year in the Notch - by William Sargent
• The Yosemite - A vivid, accurate description of the land and a passionate homage to nature