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Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California’s best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club and Yosemite National Park, Muir left his legacy on the landscape and on paper. But the celebrity of John Muir does not tell the whole story. In Essential Muir, for the first time, Muir's selected writings include those that show his ecological vision without ignoring his racism, providing a more complete portrait of the man.

John Muir is regarded as the 'father of America's national parks' and is a towering figure in the history of that country's involvement with ecology. Born into a harsh home in Dunbar, Scotland he would often escape to revel in the birds and wildlife of the area. When his father suddenly uprooted...

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern audiences is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone, from Oregon to the High Sierra. 

'Seán's sensitivity to the natural world captivates the reader' Manchán Magan 'Earnest and uplifting' Irish Times 'Informative, inspiring and insightful' Anja Murray Seán Ronayne always knew he was different. Nicknamed 'nature boy' by the other kids, as a child he regularly escaped to the...

"Craig narrates, imbuing her book with genuine pathos."- The New York Times "Mya-Rose Craig's narration of her debut memoir is full of youthful exuberance, wisdom, and wit."- AudioFile “Craig narrates her own work, transmitting her enthusiasm and knowledge in her engaging British-Bangladeshi...

David Attenborough discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV interviews.

Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect the wild—along with the people we hold closest.

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.

She risked her life to protect the natural world, only to discover that nature was not her greatest danger. In this powerful memoir, Michelle Schuman takes listeners from the savanna of Zimbabwe to the bamboo forests of the Virunga Mountains and the oil-soaked shores of Prince William Sound. Along the way, she witnesses unforgettable scenes of beauty, violence, and survival: a grieving baby elephant beside its slaughtered mother, the touch of a mountain gorilla deep in the wild, and seals struggling through the toxic devastation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Pull on your boots and take a walk with Cynthia McVay and her dogs-consummate hosts and guides, in a riveting landscape rife with adventure and discovery. In A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place, lifelong creative and environmentalist McVay chronicles her intimate, two-decade relationship with a flagging orchard in the Hudson Valley. As a single working mother seeking a weekend escape from New York City, one blustery winter day, she falls in love with a meadow and her life is forever altered.

"One life I’ve lived was liminal—I was not what I had been, but I had yet to become what I will be.” In her memoir Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks, Ashley McLain moves from an adopted child in 1970s Dallas to a pioneering environmental consultant who co-founded and sold a thriving company. At 53, she found the courage to search for her biological family, confronting questions of identity, belonging, and what it means to define “enough.

A mesmerizing true story of the drama that scandalized the ever-expanding world of birding, as one man's quest to be the first to spot 10,000 birds was turned upside-down at the finish line Peter Kaestner is an American original: a family man and career diplomat whose pursuit of the "big...

On the verge of a complete breakdown, Peter Hahn quit his globe-trotting corporate job and laid down roots in the French countryside—determined to make a go of winegrowing. Peter bought a run-down, four-hundred-year-old “pile of a house,” ten acres of woodland, and a neglected vineyard in...

On the verge of a complete breakdown, Peter Hahn quit his globe-trotting corporate job and laid down roots in the French countryside—determined to make a go of winegrowing. Peter bought a run-down, four-hundred-year-old “pile of a house,” ten acres of woodland, and a neglected vineyard in...

The inspiring story of one trailblazing California farmer that has proven—with over fifty years of hard-won experience—that large-scale farming of high-value crops can be done in a way that’s positive for the planet and the community—while still making a profit. From a first-generation...

From Confucius to Greta Thunberg, this timely guide spotlights the figures at the forefront of the most important challenge facing our world. What does it mean to be an ‘environmentalist’? Not necessarily what you think it does. At the heart of environmentalism lies a recognition of the...

Toufiq A. Siddiqi was born in Hyderabad, India, and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, England. He received his Ph. D. in Nuclear Physics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. In 1967 he and his wife Ulrike emigrated to the United States where he continued his research at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. During this time, he began to shift his focus from physics to environmental sciences, driven by the developing public environmental awareness at that time.

“Are you craving a better path to the good life than safety and comfort? Free Range Girl is the delightful story of Meghan Cox Gurdon’s countercultural off-the-grid childhood in rural Maine. This memoir is as inspirational as it is entertaining.” —Arthur C. Brooks, #1 New York Times...

Life with the Durrells is seldom straightforward. Dive headfirst into family adventures with this collection of laugh-out-loud short stories from the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. Notable tales include 'The Picnic', a hilarious account of an ill-fated Durrell excursion which...

Embark on a captivating adventure through the Argentine Pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay with Gerald Durrell, the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. A riveting account of one of Durrell's expeditions in search of rare animals, The Drunken Forest is...