All Categories>Outdoors

Outdoors
email/print EmailPrint

NEW RELEASES

cover Buy
The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Picador
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long...
cover Buy
The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Holt Paperbacks
“One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.” —Newsweek Acclaimed as “extraordinary” (The...
cover Buy
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy

Holt Paperbacks
"Klare’s superb book explains, in haunting detail, the trends that will lead us into a series of dangerous traps unless we muster the will to transform the way...
cover Buy
Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Holt Paperbacks
"A dramatic story, ably and convincingly told . . . A chilling look at the precarious line between success and tragedy."—Kirkus Reviews On May 15, 2006, a...
cover Buy
Audubon's Elephant
America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of The Birds of America

Holt Paperbacks
"Well-written. The picture emerges of a complex personality . . . a failure at several businesses but an astute judge of people . . . always happiest when...
cover Buy
The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Holt Paperbacks
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...
cover Buy
Eye of the Albatross
Visions of Hope and Survival

A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
“One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades.” —The Boston Globe Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where...
cover Buy
The Enduring Shore
A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the...
cover Buy
Marking the Sparrow's Fall
The Making of the American West

Holt Paperbacks
Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary...
cover Buy
Song for the Blue Ocean
Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist...
  

BESTSELLERS

cover Buy
The Meadow

Holt Paperbacks
An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...