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Embark on a literary adventure with these nature-themed titles!
Updated July 29, 2023
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Saanich ethnobotany : culturally important plants of the WSÁNEĆ people
Turner, Nancy J.
Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda present the results of many years of working with botanical experts from the Saanich Nation on southern Vancouver Island. Elders Violet Williams, Elsie Claxton, Christopher Paul and Dave Elliott pass on their knowledge of plants and their uses to future generations...
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Turning : a year in the water
Lee, Jessica
Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors "Jessica J. Lee is a writer of rare and exhilarating grace. In Turning, she sounds the depths of lakes and her own life, never flinching from darkness, surfacing to fresh understandings of her place in the...
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A girl goes into the forest : stories
Pursell, Peg Alford
Following her acclaimed debut,Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables.A Girl Goes into the Forest immerses readers in the complex desires, contradictions, and sorrows of...
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Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world
Cooper, Christian
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. "Wondrous . . ....
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Man v. nature : stories
Cook, Diane
San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of the Year Boston Globe's "Best Fiction of 2014" Roxane Gay's Top Ten Books of the Year An Amazon Best Short Story Collection of 2014 An iBook Best of 2014 A refreshingly imaginative,...
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Fat girls hiking : an inclusive guide to getting outdoors at any size or ability
Michaud-Skog, Summer
"An invaluable guide...Kudos to the author for changing the narrative on inclusiveness, breaking down stereotypes, and building body positivity." --Booklist From the founder of the Fat Girls Hiking community comes an inclusive, inspiring call to the outdoors...
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Fieldwork : a forager's memoir
Regan, Iliana
From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan''s Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how...
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Siku : life on the ice
Souders, Paul
Arctic ice is a daily consideration for people living above the Arctic circle.Ice is key to successful hunts, ease of travel, and the health of wildlife. This book features sweeping landscape photography of Arctic sea ice in all its forms, accompanied by anecdotes from community members across...
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Gather at the river : 25 authors on fishing
Joy, David
From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comes Gather at the River, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of contemporary authors. Their experiences explore the ways we come to water, for renewal and reverie, or to simply stand waist-deep in a river and...
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Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a commonbut largely unnoticed element of the natural world. GatheringMoss is a beautifully written mix of science and personalreflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantlysimple lives of mosses.
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Lakes of Victoria, BC : hike - walk - swim - fish - paddle - nature - history
Ungstad, Adam
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The overstory : a novel
Powers, Richard
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent...
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