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Joanna Brichetto

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

A North Country Life Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife — Sydney Lea

A North Country Life Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

The Italians in America Before the Revolution — Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo

The Italians in America Before the Revolution

Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Field Music Poems — Alexandria Hall

Field Music Poems

Alexandria Hall

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Collected Poems 1943-2004 — Richard Wilbur

Collected Poems 1943-2004

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Nouns and Verbs New and Selected Poems — Campbell McGrath

Nouns and Verbs New and Selected Poems

Campbell McGrath

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

I Hope this Finds You Well Poems — Kate Baer

I Hope this Finds You Well Poems

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems — Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

A History of England in 25 Poems — Catherine Clarke

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

The Common Man — Maurice Manning

Maurice Manning

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

A Town Without Time Gay Talese’s New York — Gay Talese

A Town Without Time Gay Talese’s New York

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

The Nerve — Glyn Maxwell

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Requeening Poems — Amanda Moore

Requeening Poems

Themes: Places • Essays • Subjects & Themes

Pretzel, Houdini and Olive: Essays on the Dogs of My Life — Deborah Thompson

Pretzel, Houdini and Olive: Essays on the Dogs of My Life

Deborah Thompson

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

On Lighthouses — Jazmina Barrera

Jazmina Barrera

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

B- A Year in Plagues and Pencils — Edward Carey

B- A Year in Plagues and Pencils

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

Earth Keeper Reflections on the American Land — N. Scott Momaday

Earth Keeper Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

A Year in Story and Song A Celebration of the Seasons — Lia Leendertz

A Year in Story and Song A Celebration of the Seasons

Themes: Places • Subjects & Themes • Nature

A Sheepdog Named Oscar Love and Companionship in Rural Ireland — Dara Waldron

A Sheepdog Named Oscar Love and Companionship in Rural Ireland

Themes: Places • Subjects & Themes • Literary Collections

The Things Trees Know — Douglas Wood

The Things Trees Know

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

A Republic of Rivers Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon — John A. Murray

A Republic of Rivers Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

Moonfire The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 — Norman Mailer

Moonfire The Epic Journey of Apollo 11

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

Mountains Piled Upon Mountains Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene — Jessica Cory

Mountains Piled Upon Mountains Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

Pleasures of the Garden A Literary Anthology — Christina Hardyment

Pleasures of the Garden A Literary Anthology

Christina Hardyment

Themes: Essays • Subjects & Themes • Nature

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