Browsing: Conservation

A New York Times bestseller with over 3,600 five-star Goodreads ratings: In 1990s Russia, a team of hunters set out after a tiger that had been claiming human lives with unexpected fervor. This true account explores history, ecology, and culture while telling “a riveting adventure story” (The New Yorker).

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways…

This “superbly crafted” memoir (Kirkus Reviews) chronicles life in the shadow of a secret nuclear weapons plant and reveals the area’s devastating impact on unsuspecting locals. “Essential and unforgettable” (Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks).

Emma Gatewood was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first personman or…

A CLASSIC FROM THE “NEW YORK TIMES” BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF “ONE SUMMER ” Back in America after twenty years in…

National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian’s eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic,…