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Winter Sign
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 51.00The locus of Jim dale Huot-Vickery?s life is a remote cabin in the northern wilderness of Minnesota?s Boundary Waters region. More often than not, it is winter here, a fierce, beautiful season that dominates all living things with its relentless cold grip. This is the inspiration for Winter Sign, the profound story of fifteen years of surviving the... more...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence." more...
A Conservationist Manifesto
Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 16.99As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life? What changes in values and behavior will be required? Ranging geographically... more...
Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 12.99By focusing mostly on the birds Charles Darwin observed, and by brilliantly mining his lesser-known writings, Haupt pens a startlingly fresh exploration of the man's genius that invites readers to look at the world with new eyes. more...
Imagination in Place
Counterpoint 2010; US$ 24.00A writer who can imagine the ?community belonging to its place? is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired?to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is ?local, fully imagined, becomes universal,? and the ?local? is to know one?s place and allow the imagination... more...
Every Natural Fact
Holy Cow! Press 2010; US$ 9.99In ten wilderness walks, mother and son explore natural history and the mystique of being human. more...
The Tree
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.99John Fowles (1926?2005) is widely regarded as one of the preeminent English novelists of the twentieth century?his books have sold millions of copies worldwide, been turned into beloved films, and been popularly voted among the 100 greatest novels of the century. To a smaller yet no less passionate audience, Fowles is also known for having written... more...
The Woman on the Mountain
Exisle Publishing 2007; US$ 7.49THE WOMAN ON THE MOUNTAIN is the truly remarkable story of a unique woman living on a remote mountain wildlife refuge nearing sixty, solitary, solar-powered and almost self-sufficient and the ups and downs of life that led her there. Full of energy, humour, and love for her own and the wider environment, this candid book inspires, entertains... more...
The View From Foley Mountain
Dundurn 1995; US$ 12.95A celebration of the joy of living in harmony with the natural world, leading you through the fields, woods, and shores of a conservation area near the Rideau Lakes. more...
Down in Bristol Bay
St. Martin's Press 1999; US$ 8.99Dr. Robert Allen Durr - literary scholar, award-winning author, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, and one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world - decided one day to give it all up and move to a remote region of Alaska in search of paradise. Convinced that truth, beauty, and goodness could still be found in the wild,... more...









