Natural History

It's the dream scenario for many of us after a long week: having the house completely to ourselves. No partners, no parents, no kids, no pets. But ...

After a distinguished career in climate science as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, David Goodrich returned home t...

In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called one of our most thoughtful travel writers, moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the...

In A Life Afield, A. Hunter Smith welcomes readers to sit by his fireside as he recounts twelve evocative tales from his extensive experience as a ...

Is it time to embrace the so-called Anthropocene--the age of human dominion--and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wil...

Covers all major regions, including the Catskills and Adirondacks Follow-up to Pocketguide to Pennsylvania Hatches set in New York, featuring New Y...

Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucso...

Continuing a tradition that began in 1842, this book examines 24 localities of particular interest to mineral collectors. These localities are orga...

Over 100 vivid color photographs of beautiful feldspar minerals show each species in its geological context. The feldspar minerals, as a group, mak...

Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty''s world, from spring to summer, autumn to...

George C. West provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, and ...

Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of ...

Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think.Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect [Provenza is] a wise observer of the lan...

Lovers of all nature, Greg Parsons and Kate Watson are particularly fascinated with waterfalls. This new edition contains dozens of new waterfalls ...

Scott Chaskeyworking farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movementconsiders the web of biodiversity and resilience at the he...

William Stimpson was at the forefront of the American natural history community in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Stimpson displayed an...

George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mo...

Standing with such environmental classics as Loren Eiseleys The Immense Journey, his friend and mentor Aldo Leopolds A Sand County Almanac, and Jos...

Intricate and soothing, this elegant coloring book for adults invites creative people of all ages to dive into the colorful world of oceans, using ...

The average child can identify over one thousand corporate logos, but only ten native plants or animals-a telling indictment of our modern disconne...