by Stephen Moss (2013)
This is a very personal celebration of why the natural world matters to all of us, wherever we live. The book is nature writing at its finest, expressed through the natural history of one very special place.
Andrew J. Fenady
They met on the battlefields of Vicksburg: Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and Johnny Yuma. United by fate in a nation divided by war, they were destined for greatness. Of the three, Johnny Yuma was the most elusive. A Confederate soldier during the war, he was about to play a key role in Grant's victory, Lee's surrender, and Custer's deadly campaigns. His life is the stuff of legend. But the truth has never been told - until now.
Gary Snyder
"Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects several essays published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as 'The China Book,' and several others, the majority, never before published in any form. 'Summer in Hokkaido,' 'Wild in China,' 'Ink and Charcoal,' 'Wolf-Hair Brush,' these essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion"--Provided by publisher.
Patrick Dearen
A cowboy throwback living in the modern world of the twentieth century, Charlie Lyles steals a horse and, pursued by the police, journeys deep into the untamed wilderness on a desperate search for the vanished American frontier.
Richard Branson
Richard Branson looks at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired him. These are tales of miraculous rescues, surprising feats of endurance and survival, and of records made and broken.