South African scholar Julia Martin’s mesmerizing and evocative memoir covers sponge diving from an anthropological perspective. While on sabbatical, Martin traveled to the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea to study Porifera, whose... Read More

Robert B. Marks’s comprehensive natural history text Deep Time in Mono Basin concerns a sensitive lake ecosystem in northeastern California. The Mono Lake Basin, at the edge of the Sierra Nevada, serves a vital ecological role as one... Read More

Susan Cormier’s "Dead Bees Still Sting" is a poignant, often surprising collection of nature essays about rural life and beekeeping. These essays concern five seasons on a small farm on the edge of suburban Vancouver. Several focus on... Read More

Sound’s absence is lauded as powerful in the musing poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence". David Moore’s contemplative poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence" is about the relationships between sounds and shadows. Logical... Read More

Ron Dungan’s droll, engaging essay collection "The Worst Fishing Dog Ever" engages in quiet contemplation of fly-fishing in the Arizona backcountry. About fly-fishing excursions to remote streams, canyons, and lakes as remedies for... Read More

An inspiring historical treatise, Sarah Lonsdale’s "Wildly Different" explores the unconventional lives of five women who defied limiting cultural norms to impact environmental causes. Mina Hubbard went on expedition in northern... Read More

A work of boldness and excellence, Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s essay collection is an act of adoration for the ocean and all marine life. The collection centers on invertebrate species, including jellyfish, snails, and mollusks. It muses on... Read More

Emphasizing the importance of quiet observations of the natural world, Kathryn Gillespie’s probing, meditative nature book "The Sound of Feathers" is about human encounters with animals. The thoughtful essays address the ethics of... Read More