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
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 198 pgs, color photos throughout. A continent-by-continent guide to threatened indigenous ways of living. More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 198 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Ever since Louis Pasteur published his theories on the origin of germs, scientists the world over have focused their attention on smaller and smaller organisms. This book brings together some of..... More
Washington DC: US Department of Agriculture, 1960. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 254 pgs, b&w illustsrations throughout. Agriculture Handbook No. 161. The genera and species annotated for the various families of range weeds included here were selected on the basis of importance (for grazing, as poisonous plants, etc.); interest (peculiarities, miscellaneous..... More
London: Hutchinson of London, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 191 pgs, index, section of b&w photos, translated from the German by Alan Houghton Brodrick. A fascinating account of the author's travels, adventures and discoveries in Mexico and Central America. More
New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. 12 x 11, 180 pgs, beautiful color art reproductions. A beautiful coffee-table style book celebrates the life and talent of this well-known naturalist/artist. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 330 pgs, b&w photos. In the early 1960s, R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were..... More
Globe, AZ: Southwest Parks & Monuments, 1971. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 72 pgs, b&w photos and maps. An indepth natural history of this famous national park. More
Englewood, CO: Westcliffe Publishers, 1998. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 304 pgs, color photos and maps throughout. Covers 63 wilderness areas, 158 spectacular day, destination, loop and shuttle hikes, and more. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1970. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 433 pgs, index. A comprehensive text on the geology and anthropology of the Central Great Plains. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1979. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 10 1/2 x 9, 288 pgs, index, color photos throughout. A look at America's lands, past and present, from the view of ecologists. Covers changing American conceptions, the forces that shaped the continent, the ecosystems, the people and natural forces that..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 290 pgs, b&w illustrations, endsheets decorated with maps. Eleven famous wilderness areas, from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the Baboquivari of Arizona, to the Everglades in Florida and the Katahdin of Maine, from the eye of this famous naturalist..... More
New York: Greystone Press, 1953. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 140 pgs, b&w and color photos. The strange and wonderful ways of mammals. More
Las Cruces, NM: NMSU Agricultural Experiment Station, 1970. Staplebound Pamplet. 6 x 9, 15 pgs, charts. Water use, shoot and root production, and root-shoot ratios for four shrub and four grass species were measured under four soil-moisture regimes. More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 290 pgs, index, b&w and color photos throughout. Provides a richly descriptive picture of the Arctic region, showing why the relatively sudden and accelerating development of its land, sea, and air spaces is of enormous consequences for..... More
Phoenix: Desert Botanical Garden of Arizona, 1963. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 111 pgs, b&w photos. Science Bulletin No. 4. Covers Arizona, Western New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Eastern California. More
New York: Rand McNally, 2001. Third printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 377 pgs, b&w photos. The story of the author's travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 8, 260 pgs, color illustrations. Covers the imperiled and extinct birds of the United States and Canada including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Lots of info. More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 271 pgs, b&w illustrations, mapped endsheets. The eternal face of the river from the ice of the north to the streaming bayou of the south. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1982. Hardcover. 9 x 10 1/2, 304 pgs, color photos throughout. "It is true, the silence of the desert can make one believe that the beating of the heart is clamorous," writes Thomas O'Neill. His wonder with the desert is shared by the other writers..... More
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2005. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 160 pgs, sources. A collection of intertwined essays from writer George Ellison's thirty-year fascination with Western North Carolina and its Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. Signed by the author. More
New York: Lyons Press, 2001. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 256 pgs. Bloodcurdling encounters between the big cats and their most reluctant prey - humans. Hard. New/New. Introduction by Harley Shaw. More
Reno, NV: Published/Printed by the author, 1992. Third edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 136 pgs, index, b&w illustrations, charts. All you need to know to go prospecting! More
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1986. Hardcover. 10 x 11 1/2, 72 pgs, color photos throughout. Beautiful coffee-table style book of gorgeous photos of the Kansas prairie. More
Denver: University of Denver Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 358 pgs, index, b&w photos. Biographies of nine leading naturalists of the Rocky Mountain area, as well as a biographical dictionary of natural history collectors. More