THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS - FAR AND NEAR; Volume XIII of 17 volume set
Boston: Houghton Mifflin-Riverside Press, 1904. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 298 pgs, b&w photos with tissue protectors. Early 20th century natural history. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin-Riverside Press, 1904. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 298 pgs, b&w photos with tissue protectors. Early 20th century natural history. More
Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Geological Society in cooperation with the Arizona Geological Society, 1978. First edition. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 372 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. The goings-on at the 29th field conference held November 9-11, 1978. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 308 pgs, index, references, notes. The story of life's tenacity in the coldest and most alien of continents--a chronicle of events during the desperately short summer when the sun sets only briefly. More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 188 pgs, illustrated by Charles Frace. A novel of a man-killing Kodiak, with insights of bear in man's world, and vice-versa. More
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. Paperback. 5 x 8, 230 pgs. Exploring the transformative impact of Native American spirituality on contemporary events. More
Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, 1992. Paperback. 6 x 9, 94 pgs, color photos, illustrations and maps. Leads you to ninety premier wildlife viewing areas and gives you better chances of seeing wildlife when you arrive. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 275 pgs, b&w illustrations, index, bibliography. Interesting reflections on man and nature illustrating how our own behavior in family, hunting, sex, etc. is shared naturally by us with the animal world. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1956. Staplebound Pamplet. 6 x 9, 32 pgs. A presentation delivered at the Third Annual Research Lecture at UNM in April of 1956. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 13 1/2, 144 pgs, color photos throughout. Patricia Caulfield's photographs are perfectly complemented, in mood and spirit, by passages she has chosen from the published and unpublished writings of Peter Matthiessen. More
El Paso, TX: Published/Printed by the author, 1973. Spiral Bound. 6 x 9, 77 pgs, b&w photos. All about the cacti of the Franklin Mountains near El Paso, TX. Plastic spiral binding brittle and only partially still there. More
St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1998. Paperback. 7 x 10, 122 pgs, b&w and color photos. Celebrates the prairie and parkland resource in the Red River region connecting threads between ecology, economy and community. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Series, Volume 11, 1949. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 399 pgs, index, b&w photos and color illustrations. Neat old natural history book. More
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 270 pgs, index, appendices. Biography of Ernest O. Thompson, known as the father of petroleum conservation. Front fly torn and missing a chunk. More
Australia: Sorrett Publishing, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 10 1/2, 208 pgs, index, b&w and color photos and illustrations. An interesting look at the vast minerals of Australia. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1959. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, 683 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. Covers all species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, food & game fishes, seashells, and the principal marine invertebrates occurring annually in North America east of the Rockies and north of the 37th parallel..... More
Baltimore, MD: Waverly Press, 1938. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 244 pgs, b&w photos and charts. The author and her husband were avid bird watchers and banders. This is the record of their activities from 1923-1925. Ex-library. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 290 pgs. "Jack Connor gives us an intimate view of the currents, counter-currents and passions of the naturalists whose lives revolve around Cape May's annual drama of migration."--Roger Tory Peterson. More
Dallas: University of Texas Press, 1979. Second printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 1881 pgs. A systematic account of the ferns and flowering plants of Texas. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 7, 275 pgs, b&w illustrations and a section of color photos. All about how to identify the most common flower species in the Rocky Mountain region, plus interesting facts about each. More
New York: Norton, 2001. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 442 pgs, index, notes. In this scientific meditation on and spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated natural resources - the Atlantic Ocean - the author weaves the details of the history and science of the Atlantic into..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1985. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 199 pgs, index, color plates throughout. From Vancouver Island to Baja California, around the Gulf of Mexico and from Florida to Maine, the shore life, the human visitors and the environment. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1986. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 200 pgs, index, color photos throughout. From disaster areas to high-tech laboratories, from ancient times to the present, a gripping, sometimes terrifying journey. More
Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Assn. 1990. Paperback. 6 x 9, 60 pgs, color photos. An easy reference to fifty of themore commonly seen species in the Southwest. More
St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, 1985. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 455 pgs, in Spanish and English. Papers presented at the Symposium on the Botany and Natural History of Panama, held April 14-17, 1980, organized by the Missouri Botanical Garden and the University of Panama. Includes bibliographical references. More
New York: Macmillan, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10 1/2, 140 pgs, index, notes, color photos throughout. The result of a five year stint in the Arctic, studying the Polar Bear, rearing orphaned cubs, and recording the Eskimo lore concerning these noble animals. More