In Mushroom Foraging & Feasting, Victoria Romanoff shares tips, recipes, and charming anecdotes from her experiences collecting mushrooms. Though she found her first... Read More

"Baobab" is photographer Beth Moon’s tribute to the magnificent, threatened trees upon which cultures and ecosystems depend. When word came of a sacred baobab falling in... Read More

At some exasperating point, every wine drinker faces a wine bottle in need of opening with no corkscrew at hand. It’s a pivotal moment because only when forced to use a... Read More

The beeping, flashing, vibrating distractions of technology; densely populated city centers; brash displays of wealth and power among the elites; and societal inequality: such... Read More

Reading this book will transform any ordinary barfly into the most knowledgeable and interesting person at the bar. Clearly written and meticulously organized, "Distilled... Read More

Easy to follow and impressively authentic, "Six Spices" has distilled a challenging cuisine into something accessible to everyone. Making Indian food can be confusing for home... Read More

Discovered by Romulus in 753 B.C., a village of shepherds that would eventually become the Eternal City was initially understood as an abstract concept and a symbolic image... Read More

Given the intense competition surrounding college admissions, it is not enough anymore to create a college application piecemeal. Rather, the materials must function together as... Read More

Art books are expected to be sumptuous, large, and expensive. Encyclopedias generally bring to mind multi-volume fact forests-and the school projects that feed on them-that make... Read More

"Wonders of the Indian Wilderness" (Abbeville Press, 978-0-7892-0999-3), photo-ecologist Erach Bharucha’s labor of love, was decades in the making. It’s so thick that... Read More

In 2005 retired photojournalist Clive Limpkin traveled to India with his wife for a surprise birthday party. Having heard endless stories about the overwhelming poverty glacial... Read More

Profiles of eighty top snow-skiing destinations is the thrust behind Ski Atlas of the World: The Complete Reference to the Best Resorts (Abbeville Press 978-0-7892-0986-3) a... Read More