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Our Washington Our Washington George Ostertag A photographic celebration of one of the nations most beautiful states, Our Washington travels the byways of this star of the Pacific Northwest to capture its character, geography, history, culture, … OL11975082W
Pugetopolis Pugetopolis Knute Berger Knute "Skip" Berger's trenchant commentaries in his "Mossback" column for Seattle Weekly, and now Crosscut.com, have made him one of the most popular and prickly figures in Seattle journalism. This b… OL13604380W
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape… A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape… Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as… OL15032712W
The rural life The rural life Verlyn Klinkenborg "In the pages of The New Yorker, Harper's, the New York Times, and his books Making Hay and The Last Fine Time, Verlyn Klinkenborg has mastered a voice of singular lyricism and precision. His subject… OL15757097W
My first summer in the Sierra My first summer in the Sierra John Muir Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author OL1618182W
The Wilderness reader The Wilderness reader Frank Bergon Records the writing of 26 explorers, naturalists, hunters, philosophers, and conservationists. OL16478989W
The rural life The rural life Verlyn Klinkenborg The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from … OL1742083W
Paynes Prairie Paynes Prairie Lars Andersen This new paperback edition of Paynes Prairie still offers the sweeping history of the shallow-bowl basin in the middle of Florida, just south of Gainesville, but now adds a guide to outdoor activitie… OL19507744W
Bitten Bitten Andrew Furman As with many people who live in Florida, Andrew Furman is a transplant, who at first did not recognize that this state has its own unique attributes and distinctive natural history beyond the popular… OL19978078W
The Mountains of California The Mountains of California John Muir 1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) : OL20978381W
Blue Mountains Far Away Blue Mountains Far Away Gregory McNamee xii, 161 p. ; 22 cm OL2692161W
The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm Dean B. Bennett "Deep in the wildlands of northern Maine is a remote piece of land with a small point sheltering a shallow cove along the shore of an expansive lake. Used as a campsite by indigenous peoples for thou… OL3241141W
Shoreline Shoreline Elizabeth A. Schultz "Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake touches the reader on many levels: as a memoir, a biography, a history and as a study of nature. As the narrative moves forward through a series of beautifully written… OL3521761W
A Sand County Almanac A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with … OL3528858W
Red Red Terry Tempest Williams ""It is a simple equation," writes Terry Tempest Williams, "place + people = politics." Nowhere is this more apparent than in the American West, where millions of acres of wilderness are at stake in … OL3746240W
Wild Wild West Wild Wild West Constance Perenyi Explores eleven wildlife habitats in western North America, from the arctic tundra to arid desert, and examines the life they support. OL4318655W
Bird Cloud Bird Cloud Annie Proulx Named for a cloud that hung in the evening sky when Annie Proulx first visited, Bird Cloud is 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie with cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. She knew s… OL456075W
O is for orca O is for orca Andrea Helman Photographs of the animals, plants, people, and places of the Pacific Northwest illustrate the letters of the alphabet. OL5972941W
The Wild Trees The Wild Trees Richard Preston,Richard Preston Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained--the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-si… OL7644740W
Natural histories Natural histories Stephen Lyn Bales In sixteen thoroughly engaging essays, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales ventures far and wide among the richly diverse flora and fauna of his native Tennessee Valley. Whether describing the nocturnal hab… OL8920861W
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