Martin Stevens’s "Secret Worlds" is a brilliant book on animal perception—the astonishing sensory adaptations that birds, insects, and other creatures evolved for their survival. Humans share five senses with animals; animals have... Read More

"Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms" is a delightful exploration of an often-overlooked aspect of the natural world: the fungi that are essential to the health of the planet. Alison Pouliot contends that fungi are often misunderstood or... Read More

Erik Reece’s memoir "Clear Creek" covers his bucolic second life in the countryside, laying forth a vision of living in and alongside nature. Reece removed himself to the woods in the style of Henry David Thoreau in Walden—while also... Read More

"Raising Resilient Bees" challenges accepted practices in commercial beekeeping, based on decades of experience on an organic farm. Advocates of stewarding bees with minimal disturbance to the hive, Eric and Joy McEwen argue that... Read More

Elizabeth D. Hilborn’s "Restoring Eden" covers the devastation caused by agricultural pesticides alongside an impassioned plea for ecological reform. Two decades ago, Hilborn and her husband moved to a North Carolina fruit farm,... Read More

Acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville’s book "Across a Waking Land" covers his thousand-mile trek in search of hopeful signs from the distressed planet. When he was sixty-two years old and not in the best shape,... Read More

Maurice Hornocker’s exciting memoir covers his long quest to understand and protect Idaho’s apex predator—the elusive cougar. Based on his years of groundbreaking field studies and research for his doctoral dissertation, this book... Read More

"Find More Birds" is a handy guide for birders, covering over one hundred steps toward increasing one’s chances of seeing birds in the wild. Birds leave behind evidence of their whereabouts, Wolf says—clues that can be followed to... Read More