Marc Hamer’s "Seed to Dust" is a meditative account of a year in the twelve-acre British garden he tended for decades. The seasons turn with comforting regularity, assuaging the ache of aging and bad memories. Hamer’s account of his... Read More

Human beings have been obsessed with the color blue for thousands of years, and in "Blue", science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt travels the globe to discover why it has always been so special. Strange as it may seem, science is only... Read More

Clever prose and gifted storytelling enliven Eli J. Knapp’s "Dead Serious", a weighty book about how species are being steamrolled toward extinction that nonetheless argues that a better future is possible. Knapp, a self-branded... Read More

"Diary of a Young Naturalist" covers a transformative year in Dara McAnulty’s life, following his move to a new home, school, and wilderness haunts in Eastern Ireland. McAnulty is a perceptive, introspective narrator whose descriptions... Read More

Rick Quinn’s "Just Like Us" presents each of Earth’s great ape species in their natural forest settings through extraordinary photographs and an elucidating, entertaining account of the Canadian veterinary opthamologist’s own... Read More

In the late nineteenth century, the animal story, a new genre of nature writing, was both popular and controversial. These weren’t cutesy tales of talking deer spinning allegories or anthropomorphized, besuited grizzly bears ready to... Read More

Approaching nature from a personal perspective, Bjorn Dihle’s "A Shape in the Dark" overturns the media myth of brown bears as vicious, deranged killers, constructing a poignant portrait of the creatures that recognizes their true... Read More

"Stories of a Forest Ranger" is an inspirational memoir about life in the US Forest Service. In Pete Griffin’s memoir "Stories of a Forest Ranger", “friendly” wolves, mating eagles, beaver dams, fires, and promotions occasion... Read More