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A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
by Scott Weidensaul
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by Elizabeth Becker
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsElizabeth Becker investigates global travel industry practices in an eye-opening examination of this $6.5 trillion phenomenon.
by Philip Connors
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsA decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Fire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude.
by Mark Obmascik
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsWhen Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to do them in less than one year.
by Sean Wilsey, Matt Weiland
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsEdited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation.
by Rick Bass
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsRick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: Filled with Bass's hallmark lean and beautiful prose, they are further proof of his mastery of the short fiction form.
by Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsWhether hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans who are struggling to protect their livelihood, or tracking endangered polar bears in Norway, Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis ...
by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
Read Reviews'I've not read anything that so captures the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. Ordinary Wolves is painful and beautiful'.. Louise Erdrich.
by Frances Moore Lappe, Anna Lappe
Published Apr 2003
Read ReviewsJoin one of our country's foremost activist thinkers, Frances Moore Lappé, and her daughter, Anna, on a trip around this small planet. This follow up to The Next Diet For A Small Planet helps each of us find new courage to trust ourselves and choose the world we want.
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