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To Pass On a Good Earth

The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
Williams, Michael

To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God...

Eco-Man

New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature
Allister, Mark

The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth and history grows in part from the male’s reverent fascination with the wilderness and his equally strong impulse to dominate...

Beyond Nature Writing

Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism
Armbruster, Karla M., Wallace, Kathleen R.

Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained—until recently—closely focused on critical analyses of nature...

World's Fair Gardens

Shaping American Landscapes
Maloney, Cathy Jean

As showcases for dramatic changes in garden style and new technology, world’s fairs offered leading landscape designers and nurserymen the chance to tempt visitors to try new...

Practical Ecocriticism

Literature, Biology, and the Environment
Love, Glen A.

Practical Ecocriticismis the first book to ground environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology, and to attempt to bridge the ever-...

Darwin's Fox and My Coyote

Menino, Holly

A rare fox in the South American cordillera. A disappearing fox on an island off California. A common coyote in the Albany suburbs. How do these wild carnivores live? And what...

An American Cutting Garden

A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold
McIntire, Suzanne

In An American Cutting Garden Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop—all...

The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello

Hatch, Peter J.

Lavishly illustrated, Peter Hatch's The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello is not only a detailed history of Jefferson's gardens and their re-creation but a virtual...

Anthropocene Fictions

The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
Trexler, Adam

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and...

Beastly Natures

Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
Brantz, Dorothee

Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with...

City Trees

A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
Lawrence, Henry W.

For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, City Trees: A Historical...

Melodramatic Landscapes
Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
Schenker, Heath
During the nineteenth century, large, naturalistic urban parks began to appear in cities around the world. These parks, as Melodramatic Landscapes engagingly...

Clinical Stories and Their Translations
Stein, Howard F., Apprey, Maurice
Clinical Stories and Their Translations proposes, and richly illustrates via numerous case examples, the utility of a depth psychology- informed ethnographic method of clinical...

The Golden-Bristled Boar
Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest
Greene, Jeffrey
The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats...

Shaping the American Landscape
New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
Birnbaum, Charles A., Foell, Stephanie S.
Shaping the American Landscape explores the lives and work of 151 professionals who quite literally shaped both the land itself and our ideas of what the American...

Dancing with Disaster
Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
Rigby, Kate
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more...

Millipedes and Moon Tigers
Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
Nash, Stephen
Millipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public policy-making--and the resulting human effect on our natural and...

A Useful Dog
McCaig, Donald
Alternately comical, melancholic, pragmatic, and poetic, Donald McCaig’s collection AUseful Dog offers a delightful exploration of the simple yet rich relationship between dogs...

Visions of the Land
Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
Bryson, Michael A.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body...

Of Land, Bones, and Money
Toward a South African Ecopoetics
McGiffin, Emily
The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with...

The Significance of Territory
Gottman, Jean
Over her thirty-year study of the concept of territory, Jean Gottmann has seen its significance evolve in a wide variety of ways throughout the world. Factors that influence...

The Afterlives of Animals
A Museum Menagerie
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.
In the quiet halls of the natural history museum, there are some creatures still alive with stories, whose personalities refuse to be relegated to the dusty corners of an...

Italy and the Environmental Humanities
Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Iovino, Serenella, Cesaretti, Enrico, Past, Elena
Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both...

New Woman Ecologies
From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond
Carroll, Alicia
A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater...

Gilbert White
A Biography of the Author of The Natural History of Selborne
Mabey, Richard
With more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White’s The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most published books in the English language. An environmental study...