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Our Life in Gardens

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately’ makes no sense, for when two...
  
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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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Out of Eden
An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them...
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Clearing Land
Legacies of the American Farm

North Point Press
"A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm." --Larry Zuckerman, author of The Potato "Nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order . . . Clearing...
  
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Against the Grain
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

North Point Press
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in...
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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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Living on the Wind
Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

North Point Press
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do....
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The Control of Nature

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...
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Encounters with the Archdruid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the...