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Walden First Edition — Henry David Thoreau

Walden First Edition

Henry David Thoreau

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Bad Dogs Have More Fun Selected Writings on Animals, Family and Life by John Grogan for The Philadelphia Inquirer — John Grogan

Bad Dogs Have More Fun Selected Writings on Animals, Family and Life by John Grogan for The Philadelphia Inquirer

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 — David Quammen

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Scratched A Memoir of Perfectionism — Elizabeth Tallent

Scratched A Memoir of Perfectionism

Elizabeth Tallent

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Upstream Selected Essays — Mary Oliver

Upstream Selected Essays

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Earth Works Selected Essays — Scott Russell Sanders

Earth Works Selected Essays

Scott Russell Sanders

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 — Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022 — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 — Carl Zimmer

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

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

Earth Keeper Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

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

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

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 — Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest — Fábio Zuker

The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

We are Each Other’s Harvest Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy — Natalie Baszile

We are Each Other’s Harvest Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

Natalie Baszile

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

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 • Nature • Literary Collections

Truth & Beauty A Friendship — Ann Patchett

Truth & Beauty A Friendship

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Something in the Woods Loves You — Jarod Anderson

Something in the Woods Loves You

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

A Darker Wilderness Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars — Erin Sharkey

A Darker Wilderness Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Possibility of Tenderness A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams — Jason Allen-Paisant

The Possibility of Tenderness A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams

Jason Allen-Paisant

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The Blue Jay’s Dance A Birth Year — Louise Erdrich

The Blue Jay’s Dance A Birth Year

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For — Henry Thoreau

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry — Wendell Berry

The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell Berry

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

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

Mountains Piled Upon Mountains Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

Simple Things Lessons from the Family Farm — Jerry Apps

Simple Things Lessons from the Family Farm

Themes: Essays • Nature • Literary Collections

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