**A Genius Grant–winning ornithologist's meditations on birds, wilderness, Black identity, and a determination to fly free."**I cannot separate birds from who I am because I care for them so. In that light I also cannot separate my love for life from the plight of others who, like me, share the same black and brown skin.” In Range Maps, J. Drew Lanham writes powerfully of his love for birds, his life as a Black birdwatcher, and his belief that Black Americans must be inclu...

"A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful."—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkA Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award WinnerIn me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County...

From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant Recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose.In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through seasonal shifts, societal unrest, and deeply personal reflection and traces a path from bitter history to...

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice.The concept of solastalgia comes ...

Nonfiction about cross-cultural experience in nature (like Braiding Sweetgrass, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood) has powerful sales appeal. As do “field guides” that provide more than just raw data. We view this as a kind of lyric field guide. In the vein of the Wildsam guides.Will be a beautiful hardcover, suitable for gift-giving.Author's viewpoint, as an ornithologist, a hunter, a professor, and a black man from the South is incredibly uniqueThis is a ...

Inspired by America's beloved national parks, Campfire Stories Volume II is a collection of modern prose, poetry, folklore, and more, featuring commissioned, new, and existing works from a diverse group of writers who share a deep appreciation of the natural world. While the original Campfire Stories captured many historic tales reflecting the first 100 years of the National Park Service, this completely new collection, focused on five different parks (plus two long-dista...

From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, listeners meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the na...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ...

A vegan-turned-hunter reignites the connection between humans and our food sources and continues the dialog begun by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver.While still in high school, Tovar Cerulli experimented with vegetarianism and by the age of twenty, he was a vegan. Ten years later, in the face of declining health, he would find himself picking up a rifle and heading into the woods.Through his personal quest, Tovar Cerulli bridges disparate worldviews a...

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Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and through her world. In Animal Magnetism, the bestselling author shares the lessons she’s learned from these marvelous creatures as well as her deep appreciation for them. We meet Franklin...

Bestselling author Steve Chapman offers this little gem of a book that will have readers chuckling, grinning, and nodding their heads at the witty quips, outrageous insights, and fascinating observations. Drawing on folk humor, a dash of science, backwoods wisdom, and biblical truths, Steve encourages readers to consider:Wasn't it smart of God to...design us to sneeze out instead of in?have rain fall in little drops instead of one big one?give us o...