Nature, recreation and sports / Nature

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: A Memoir

by ElisabethTova Bailey

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris -a common woodland...

The Natural Navigator: A Watchful Explorer's Guide to a Nearly Forgotten Skill

by Tristan Gooley

Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. A windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong could point the way home-and, for the alert traveler, they...

Fire Season

by Philip Connors

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending...

Winged Obsession

by Jessica Speart

One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. In this cutthroat $200 million business, no one was more successful—or...

The Bond

by Wayne Pacelle

A fascinating exploration of humanity's eternal bond with animals, and an urgent call to answer the needs of millions of at-risk creatures

A landmark work, The Bond is the passionate, insightful, and comprehensive...

How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure

by Allie Phillips

Pound seizure or pound release involves a shelter selling or giving away cats and dogs to research facilities, universities, or Class B Dealers (random source animal brokers licensed by the U.S. Department of...

To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

by Olivia Laing

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The...

Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (25th Anniversary Edition)

by Paul W. Taylor

What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend...

The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water

by Charles Fishman

The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth,...

Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature

by Osprey Lake

Artist-author-advocate Osprey Orielle Lake explores how the beauty, vitality, and ecological systems of the natural world can guide and transform human perspective, particularly as we face current environmental...

The Soil

by Nagatsuka Takashi

The Soil was originally written in 1910 and is a classic account of rural and agricultural life in Japan in the early 1900s. In addition to its deft, powerful evocations of nature, the novel also provides a...

The German Shepherd Dog in Word and Picture

by V. Stephanitz

Originally published in Germany in 1923. This is the English edition translated by J. Schwabacher. Probably the most important book ever published on this popular breed. The illustrated contents include: The...

Pheasant Keeping for Amateurs; A Practical Handbook on the Breeding, Rearing, and General Management of Aviary Pheasants

by George Horne

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

Manual of the Woodcraft Indians; The Fourteenth Birch-Bark Roll, Containing Their Constitution, Laws, and Deeds, and Much Additional Matter

by Ernest Thompson Seton

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

The Canary Book: Containing Full Directions for the Breeding, Rearing and Management of Canaries and Canary Mules ..

by R. L. Wallace

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

Coral Gardens and Their Magic - A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands - Vol II: The Language o

by Bronislaw

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high...

Mushroom Culture for Amateurs: With Full Descriptions for Successful Growth in Houses, Sheds, Cellars, and Pots, on Shelves, and Out of Doors

by W. J. May

Originally published in 1898, this brilliant little manual tells you everything you need to know about the mushroom cultivation. Contents Include Necessary Conditions Materials Required Preparation of Materials...

Mushrooms For The Million - Growing, Cultivating & Harvesting Mushrooms

by John Wright

Originally published in 1881, this is a'Practical treatise on the cultivation of the most profitable outdoor crop known'. Wonderfully detailed, it presents a complete system for the growing, cutivating and harvesting...

The Lore of the Honey Bee - Natural History and Bee-Keeping

by Tickner Edwardes

Originally published in 1908. One of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee. Contents Include: The Ancients and the Honey Bee The Isle of Honey Bee Masters in the Middle Ages...

First Lessons In Beekeeping

by C. P. Dadant

Originally published in 1917, this is a wonderful early work on beekeeping and contains much information and many photos. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are...