Browsing: Nature

In this “astoundingly lighthearted book” (The New York Times), Betty MacDonald shares her stirring, hilarious story about the trials of moving to a small chicken farm in the Washington wilderness. With over 2,400 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

The Great Lakes–Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior–hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide…

Avid outdoorsman Keith Foskett embarked on a 1,000-mile pilgrimage through the European countryside — experiencing dangers, absurdities, and life-changing revelations along the way. A “thoroughly entertaining” true story (The Observer) told with wit and warmth.

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing…

A New York Times bestseller: After Mark Bittner moved to San Francisco’s storied Telegraph Hill, his life changed when he befriended a group of wild parrots who also called his neighborhood home. “Charming… A pleasure and an education” (Kirkus Reviews).

A “smart, enthralling” BookBub Recommended Read (Cheryl Strayed): “The Jane Goodall of botany” (Science) weaves stories of her discoveries in the lab with intimate descriptions of the natural world in a memoir that “does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology” (The New York Times).

The star of Smithsonian Channel’s Dogs With Extraordinary Jobs reveals everything you need to raise the perfect pet—and get off…

Manjeet Hirani was adamant that a dog would never enter her house, but that was before little Buddy arrived at…

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the…

Ecological Intelligence recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of…