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Erosion - Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Category: Non-Fiction
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space ...Show more
Erosion - Essays on Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Category: Non-Fiction
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Persona ...Show more
Green Ideas Slipcase by Greta Thunberg; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Dai Qing; Wangari Maathai; Jared Diamond; Wendell Berry; Edward O. Wilson; James Lovelock; Masanobu Fukuoka; Arne Næss; Rachel Carson; Naomi Klein; Aldo Leopold; Timothy Morton; George Monbiot; Bill McKibben; Amitav Ghosh; Tim Flannery; Terry Tempest Williams; Michael Pollan
Category: Philosophy
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Thei ...Show more
The Clan of One-Breasted Women by Terry Tempest Williams
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The Clan of One-Breasted Women, bringing together the best of writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams' essays, explores the impact of nuclear testing, the importance of environmental legislation, and the spirit of conservation.
The Gift of Birds - True Encounters with Avian Spirits by Amy Greimann Carlson (Editor); Larry Habegger (Editor); Louise Erdrich (Contribution by); Barry Lopez (Contribution by); Diane Ackerman (Contribution by); Terry Tempest Williams (Contribution by); Peter Matthiessen (Contribution by)
Category: Nature | Series: Travelers' Tales Guides
Whether it roots us in our own backyard or takes us across continents, watching birds calls us to stillness and demands our keen attention to the details that flicker around us. This collection of stories will appeal to bird lovers everywhere.
Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie; Olaus Johan Murie; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword by)
Category: Biography
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks ...Show more
Walden by Henry Thoreau; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American ...Show more
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
Category: Science
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."--Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Willia ...Show more
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