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Love, Life, and Elephants
An African Love Story

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her...
  
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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things

North Point Press
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other...
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Trespass
Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

North Point Press
Trespass is the story of one woman’s struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite...
  
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The Life of the Skies
Birding at the End of Nature

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was...
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Coal River

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of America’s most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for...
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Pulse
The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pulse is not about dance music, not about heart rates—and not about electromagnetic fields. What it does describe is a sea change in human affairs, a vast and...
  
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Return to Wild America
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul

North Point Press
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over...
  
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Birds in the Hand
Fiction and Poetry About Birds

North Point Press
A unique anthology of avian literature From the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are...
  
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My Favorite Plant
Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A delightful compendium of writing on plants. The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of...
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The Control of Nature

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where...