Nature
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Science
- Nature's Poetic Voices
- Essays on Nature and Reflection
- Nature's Tales for Young Explorers
Trees Every Child Should Know
Trees Every Child Should Know invites young listeners to explore the fascinating world of trees through engaging observations and hands-on l…
Through Glacier Park
This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…
In the Heart of Africa
A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continen…
The Flower Garden
This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and…
Our Southern Highlanders
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …
The Harvester
David Langston (a.k.a. the Harvester) is 26 years old and lives a simple life in the Midwest with his dog, cultivating and harvesting trees,…
The Secret Garden
When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her …
Cosmos
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…
The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into t…
The World's Lumber Room
If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …
Under The Sky In California
This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This…
The Tale of Freddie Firefly
He was able to draw a deep breath again as they reached the field of red clover, where Peppery Polly Bumblebee settled quickly upon a clover…
The Backwoods of Canada
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…
Our National Parks
This book is a collection of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine and gathered into book form in 1901. The focus here i…
Making a Rock Garden
A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touchin…
Dog
The title says it all: stories about dogs. - Summary by david wales
The White Heart of Mojave
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …
Audubon's Western Journal
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's Ca…
Midnight
This is an adventure story about a horse in the wild west. (Summary by Rocky Taylor)