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A Literary Field Guide Winner of a 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Award! Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with cla...

Award-winning author Jordan Scott's luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of the Snµfellsjèokull glacier that's alwa...

"Turpeinen matches the heights of Andrea Barrett" in this sweeping and intimate tale about a fateful encounter between man and nature spanning thre...

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature ...

How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants "A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animal...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass comes a beautiful and lushly illustrated tale celebrating gratitude, reciproci...

A Memoir of the Land and Its Loss Journalist and educator Patricia Prijatel and her family built a tiny cabin in a remote Colorado mountain valley ...

My Life Tracking the Great White Shark Dr. Greg Skomal, one of the leading great white shark experts in the country, reveals the true nature of the...

Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling...

A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood People live by their stories - how can we use them to accelerate action on climate cha...

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst...

How Animals Make Our World A "fascinating" exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping,...

A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker - Winner, Sushila Devi Award 2023 - Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best Fiction - Winner, AutHer Award 202...

In Fins, pirates catch sharks in a marine reserve, lop off their fins, and discard the sharks for dead. A series of puzzling, apparently related sh...

Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology An Indigenous env...

A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the ...

Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement Leading Binnizá and Maya Ch'orti' scientist Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D., weaves together Indige...

Take to the trails for a celebration of nature - and a day spent with dad. In the cool and quiet early light of morning, a father and child wake up...

Saving Nature with Your Yard In How Can I Help, Doug Tallamy - a New York Times bestselling author and the cofounder of the nonprofit Homegrown Nat...

Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentl...

Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland Beth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwester...

50 Plants That Thrive and Survive in a Dry Garden Kew: Parched is a collection of over 50 beautiful, fascinating and-most importantly-drought-proof...

The World's Unusual and Endangered Plants Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which receives nearly 2 million visitors ...

Trees in Magic, Folklore and Traditional Remedies There is more folklore, mythology and magic associated with our trees and forests than with any o...