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• about this catalog
• ecocriticism
• environmental history
• field guides
• nature writing & trade nonfiction
• philosophy & ethics
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about this catalog
UGA Press has a long tradition of publishing books about nature and the
environment. A rich variety of work has been published over the years, ranging
from books of philosophy that are internationally focused to field guides of the
Southeast to narrative writing that is both personal and universal.
This paperless catalog features almost 150 titles divided into five major subject
areas: ecocriticism, environmental history, field guides, nature writing & trade
nonfiction, and philosophy & ethics. PDFs are available of the entire catalog and
of each section separately. Each section has a separate author index. An order
form is also included.
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Belanger, Marion • Everglades 26
Belleville, Bill • Deep Cuba 28
• River of Lakes 28
• Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and
Golden Sharks 28
Briggs, Betty Savidge • Crackers in the Glade 27
Bryant, David • Georgia’s Amazing Coast 38
Burroughs, Franklin • Billy Watson’s Croker Sack 31
• The River Home 31
Campbell, Alan • Ossabaw 37
Camuto, Christopher • A Fly Fisherman’s Blue Ridge 30
• Another Country 30
• Hunting from Home 30
Cauthen, Sudye • Southern Comforts 26
Cerulean, Susan • Tracking Desire 27
Crowe, Thomas Rain • Zoro’s Field 31
Dallmeyer, Dorinda G., ed. • Elemental South 29
Daniel, John, ed. • Wild Song 29
Davidson, George • Georgia’s Amazing Coast 38
Dilbeck, Perry • The Last Harvest 37
Dixon, Terrell F., ed. • City Wilds 25
Friederici, Peter • The Suburban Wild 26
Goodall, Jane • Visions of Caliban 36
Harper, Francis • Okefinokee Album 39
Hurd, Barbara • Entering the Stone 24
• Stirring the Mud 24
• Walking the Wrack Line 24
Kaufman, David R. • Peachtree Creek 38
Kilgo, James • Colors of Africa 32
• Deep Enough for Ivorybills 32
• Inheritance of Horses 32
• Ossabaw 37
Kline, David • Scratching the Woodchuck 34
Lane, John • Chattooga 33
• Circling Home 33
• Waist Deep in Black Water 33
Lane, John, ed. • The Woods Stretched for Miles 29
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Leigh, Jack • Ossabaw 37
Levin, Ted • Liquid Land 27
Logsdon, Gene • The Pond Lovers 35
Lopez, Barry • Lessons from the Wolverine 35
Maloof, Joan • Teaching the Trees 25
Mulcahy, Joanne B. • Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island 35
Nourse, Carol • The State Botanical Garden of Georgia 38
• Wildflowers of Georgia 38
Nourse, Hugh • The State Botanical Garden of Georgia 38
• Wildflowers of Georgia 38
Noy, Rick Van • A Natural Sense of Wonder 25
Peterson, Dale • Chimpanzee Travels 36
• Visions of Caliban 36
Plum, Sydney Landon • Solitary Goose 31
Pohrt, Tom • Lessons from the Wolverine 35
Presley, Delma E. • Okefinokee Album 39
Rehmann, Elsa • American Plants for American Gardens 34
Roberts, Edith A. • American Plants for American Gardens 34
Russell, Sally • Shatter Me with Dawn 34
Sari, Riska Orpa • Riska 36
Schlegel, Stuart A. • Wisdom from a Rainforest 36
Seaman, Donna, ed. • In Our Nature 29
Shuler, Jay • Had I the Wings 39
Solnit, Rebecca • As Eve Said to the Serpent 39
Soos, Frank • Bamboo Fly Rod Suite 37
Spalding, Linda, ed. • Riska 36
Storter, Rob • Crackers in the Glade 27
Tallmadge, John • The Cincinnati Arch 26
Teal, John • Portrait of an Island 39
Teal, Mildred • Portrait of an Island 39
Thurmond, Gerald, ed. • The Woods Stretched for Miles 29
Underhill, Linda • The Unequal Hours 35
White, Sharon • Vanished Gardens 25
Whitehead, Fred • The Seasons of Cumberland Island 37
Williams, Philip Lee • Crossing Wildcat Ridge 34
nature writing &
trade nonfiction
barbara hurd
Walking the Wrack Line
On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
Barbara Hurd
Hurd gives nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began
with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone. With prose both eloquent and wise, her close attention to objects that wash ashore widens into larger concerns: the persistence of habits,
desire, disappointments, the lie of the perfectly preserved, the pleasures of aversions, transformations, and a phenomenon from physics known as the strange attractor.
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“Each sentence is an exploration. Every small thing opens into a universe seen through Hurd’s
brave and curious lens. Her hunt for minutia is subtly inspired and above all tangible, worldly,
real.”—Craig Childs, author of The Secret Knowledge of Water
136 pp.
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Entering the Stone
On Caves and Feeling through the Dark
Barbara Hurd
A Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year
“Reading Entering the Stone is not unlike exploring a cave system. The layout may be unclear.
Some quarters may be confined. But then, unexpectedly, a seemingly unconnected chamber
will converge with other passages and you find yourself in an expansive space and feel you’ve
encountered something enlightening.”—New York Times Book Review
184 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 3153-9
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Stirring the Mud
On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
Barbara Hurd
A Los Angeles Times Book of the Year
“Delving into these wetlands, she finds in their array of strange fauna and flora an objective
correlative to the place in the mind where artistic inspiration occurs: a place of blurred borders, shifting identity, and strange odors, of rot and death, of Zen peacefulness.”
—The New Yorker
160 pp.
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A Natural Sense of Wonder
Connecting Kids with Nature through the Seasons
Rick Van Noy
“The question of how parents should appropriately connect their children with nature is accessibly and gently articulated here. This is a great book for a wide range of parents and is
full of the realities of parenting in a postmodern age. Whereas Richard Louv’s Last Child in
the Woods is issues oriented and broadly sociological, A Natural Sense of Wonder is hands on.”
—David Sobel, author of Beyond Ecophobia
152 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 3103-4
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Teaching the Trees
Lessons from the Forest
Joan Maloof
“Maloof combines science, heart, and spirit as a wonderful reminder of how important, special, and sacred trees are to us and to our world. Use this book as your call to action to conserve, protect, and restore our earth’s trees and forests.”—Julia Butterfly Hill
“An impassioned take on the sacred nature of trees, with natural-history essays touching on
their critical role in all our lives.”—Body + Soul
176 pp. | 19 b&w photos
Paper, $16.95t | 2955-0
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Vanished Gardens
available September 2008
Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Sharon White
Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose sometimes as precise and
considered as the paths in a parterre, sometimes as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista,
White explores the city as a part of its greater ecosystem and animates the lives of specific
gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her new home.
240 pp.
Cloth, $28.95t | 3156-0
City Wilds
Essays and Stories about Urban Nature
Edited by Terrell F. Dixon
“This book is not only delightful and instructive; it’s urgently important.”
—Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the United States
“All the senses are alive in the best of these essays and stories. The writing proves the old theory that our finest metaphors come from nature, no matter where we find it.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
336 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 2339-8
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The Suburban Wild
Peter Friederici
“Celebrating the wildness that pervades the patches between roads, buildings and parking
lots in urban America, The Suburban Wild addresses a question that gains increasing importance as more and more of the world converts to concrete jungle: How does wildness adapt
to survive and thrive in a human-dominated world?”—E: The Environmental Magazine
“Close to poetry in its lyrical compression and imagery.”—Chicago Tribune
136 pp.
Cloth, $22.95t | 2134-9
The Cincinnati Arch
Learning from Nature in the City
John Tallmadge
“I predict that The Cincinnati Arch will be looked at as a literary landmark because of its merger
between nature writing and urban America. The fact that it is gorgeously written and elegantly conceived shouldn’t hurt, either.”—John Elder, Reading the Mountains of Home
240 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2690-0
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Everglades
available February 2009
Outside and Within
Marion Belanger
With an essay by Susan Orlean
Center Books on the American South
After reading The Orchid Thief, Belanger headed to the Everglades to discover what the
writer had so vividly captured in prose. Belanger went to find wilderness, but instead
she found a puzzling dichotomy: visually, it is often hard to know whether one is outside
or within this “natural” sanctuary. In her photographic sequence we see the pull between commerce and human enterprise and the need for boundless wilderness.
80 pp. | 39 duotone and 12 color photos
Paper, $30.00t | 978-1-930066-85-6
Cloth, $50.00s | 978-1-930066-84-8
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Southern Comforts
Rooted in a Florida Place
Sudye Cauthen
Center Books on the American South
“Cauthen returned to her native Alachua County, land of live oaks and longleaf-pine churches,
searching for something unnameable. Her book is a personal history told so beautifully, layer
upon layer, that even James Agee would be undone. A longing like a wildfire runs through
these pages, entwined in stories of farmers and preachers, churchgoers and criminals: Go
back, go back. Folkloric and spiritual, this uncommon study is a monument to a place that
was.”—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
192 pp. | 24 b&w photos | 33 figures | 7 maps
Cloth, $29.95t | 978-1-930066-58-8
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Liquid Land
A Journey through the Florida Everglades
Ted Levin
Winner of the 2004 John Burroughs Medal
“The Florida Everglades seems to bring out the best and worst in humans; Liquid Land is a
love letter to a historic swamp and a probing look at the people who are fighting over its
future.”—Audubon
“A must-read primer for all the players in the Everglades conservation effort.”—Orion
312 pp. | 16 photos | 3 maps
Paper, $16.95t | 2672-6
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Tracking Desire
A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites
Susan Cerulean
“An honest book, finely written . . . Her narrative—from the obsessive pursuit of kites to a cry
against human destruction of other forms of life—is a deeply personal journey. It is also the
author’s attempt to ‘dive for spirit, the invisible river of being that connects us all at one time,
all the time.’”—Audubon
“Obsession has rarely had a lovelier or more compelling subject than this one. . . . at once a
paean, a pilgrimage, and a penance.”—Orion
192 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2819-5
Cloth, $24.95t | 2697-9
Crackers in the Glade
Life and Times in the Old Everglades
Rob Storter
Edited by Betty Savidge Briggs
“A finely realized portrait of a unique world and way of life that have all but
vanished . . . [Storter was] a born observer, blessed with keen eye, gentle soul
and uncanny memory. Vivid details make his chronicle compelling and often
moving.”—Miami Herald
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160 pp. | 118 color photos | 1 map
Paper, $22.95t | 3043-3
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BILL BELLEVILLE
Deep Cuba
The Inside Story of an American Oceanographic Expedition
Bill Belleville
An account of Belleville’s month-long journey around Cuba in the company of American and
Cuban marine biologists and a Discovery Channel film crew.
“Rank[s] with the best travel writing . . . Deep Cuba will appeal to a wide range of readers:
armchair travelers, recreational divers, naturalists and anyone curious about Castro and the
Caribbean’s largest island.”—Orlando Sentinel
296 pp. | 1 map
Paper, $18.95t | 2620-7
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River of Lakes
A Journey on Florida’s St. Johns River
Bill Belleville
Winner of 2000 Michael J. Shaara Outstanding Writer Award
“Rich in history, both natural and human. This well-researched travelog is a must for every
Floridian’s adventure library.”—St. Petersburg Times
“In this well-written book [Belleville] establishes his kinship with William Bartram . . . and other
artists who have felt the tug of its currents.”—Audubon
256 pp. | 1 map
Paper, $18.95t | 2344-2
Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks
Travels of a Water-Bound Adventurer
Bill Belleville
Belleville takes us through Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America in quest of the distinctive, the wondrous, the threatened, and the undiscovered.
“Belleville is an expert diver whose wanderlust takes him to places few sane people would
venture. . . . Yet such is Belleville’s talent that even when he ventures into relatively familiar territory, he brings an unfamiliar perspective, finding adventure and wonderment in little-seen
corners of the natural world.”—Natural History
248 pp. | 19 photos | 1 map
Cloth, $29.95t | 2592-7
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Elemental South
An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
Edited by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
Winner of the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment
A gathering of works by some of the region’s best nature writers—people who can coax from
words the mysteries of our place in the landscape and the human relationship to wildness.
The writers are all participants in the Southern Nature Project, an ongoing endeavor founded
on the conviction that writing like the kind gathered here can help us to lead more human,
profound, and courageous lives in terms of how we use our earth.
176 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2689-4
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In Our Nature
Stories of Wildness
Edited by Donna Seaman
Fourteen stellar short stories by writers such as Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Margaret Atwood, E. L.
Doctorow, Chris Offutt, and others plumb the mystery—as only fiction can—of nature within
us and the world of nature that surrounds us.
“Each of these strikingly original narratives expands the horizon of conventional nature
writing.”—Audubon
272 pp.
Paper, $19.95t | 2457-9
Wild Song
Poems of the Natural World
Edited by John Daniel
Eighty-three poems on the eternal and timely themes of nature, written by both eminent
poets and emerging talents.
“One of the finest recent collections of poetry of place . . . should find a lasting place on any
poetry lover’s shelf.”—Oregon Life
144 pp. | 7 illustrations
Paper, $18.95s | 2011-3
The Woods Stretched for Miles
New Nature Writing from the South
Edited by John Lane and Gerald Thurmond
Essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such well-known names
as Wendell Berry and Rick Bass but also distinctive new voices, including Christopher Camuto,
Susan Cerulean, and Eddy L. Harris.
256 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2088-5
Unjacketed cloth, $40.00s | 2087-8
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christopher camuto
Another Country
Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains
Christopher Camuto
“Not since Barry Lopez welded landscape and imagination together in Arctic Dreams has a
writer so ambitiously attempted to elevate local culture and landscape to universal understanding and insight.”—Orion
“Camuto’s highly engaging personal reflection on the reintroduction of the red wolf to Great
Smoky Mountains National Park creeps up on you like Canis rufus itself, with stealth and cunning. Another Country is a deep regret over missed opportunities and a small measure of satisfaction in this effort at redress.”—New York Times Book Review
368 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 2237-7
A Fly Fisherman’s Blue Ridge
Christopher Camuto
“The best book about fly-fishing to come along in some years.”—Fly Rod & Reel
“A series of deeply moving essays on an American region by an angler with an eye for detail
and a poet’s way with the language. Camuto’s book reminds one of Annie Dillard, Edward
Abbey, even Thoreau.”—Virginia Quarterly Review
238 pp. | 1 map
Paper, $16.95t | 2304-6
Hunting from Home
A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Christopher Camuto
“Camuto is, pound for pound, word for word, the heavyweight champion of southern nature
writing.”—Bloomsbury Review
“The stealthy cadence of Camuto’s prose reveals glimpses of his effort to do justice to a place
and way of life that often seem just beyond his reach; hunting becomes a metaphor of how to
capture the natural within the self and on the page.”—New York Times Book Review
320 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 2683-2
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Billy Watson’s Croker Sack
Franklin Burroughs
“An exquisitely wrought and unerringly graceful book.”—Jim Harrison
“[His] essays evoke William Faulkner’s South and E. B. White’s farm. But Burroughs’s style is
distinctly his own: always elegant, sometimes simple, plainly honest, and, perhaps most of all,
completely authentic.”—Fourth Genre
160 pp. | 1 b&w illus.
Paper, $15.95t | 1999-5
The River Home
A Return to the Carolina Low Country
Franklin Burroughs
Burroughs chronicles a canoe voyage through the Carolinas, visiting his ancestral homeland
and the people who inhabit the banks of the Waccamaw River.
“The hot-damnedest literary canoe trip since John Graves’s Goodbye to a River.”
—John G. Mitchell
224 pp. | 16 b&w illus. | 1 map
Paper, $15.95t | 1998-8
Zoro’s Field
My Life in the Appalachian Woods
Thomas Rain Crowe
Foreword by Christopher Camuto
Winner of the Ragan Old North State Award and the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding
Writing on the Southern Environment
“I have known Thomas Crowe for thirty years or so, as poet, writer, editor, and community
activist. Before he returned to North Carolina he was a neighbor in my part of California. I have
always respected his work and dedication as someone who has truly found both his place and
his work, and recommend him highly. His writing speaks from a fluency with landscape and
an ease with language like water. At home in both.”
—Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild
240 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2862-1
Solitary Goose
Sydney Landon Plum
“A provocative, revelatory meditation on life, both human and wild. While telling the story
of caring for a solitary, wounded goose who inhabits a pond near her home, Plum contemplates not only the resilience and fragility of migratory birds, but also our human place in the
world—its separateness from the wild, and all the decisions, inconsistencies, longings, and
intentions that separateness entails.”—Jane Brox, author of Clearing Land
152 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 2966-6
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James Kilgo
Colors of Africa
James Kilgo
“I can think of few authors so well qualified to write a book like this. James Kilgo, naturalist,
spiritual thinker, hunter, historian, and, above all, author extraordinaire, has written something ‘about’ an African safari—but only in the way, say, that Melville wrote ‘about’ whaling. A
splendid accomplishment.”—Sydney Lea, author of Hunting the Whole Way Home
224 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 3017-4
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Deep Enough for Ivorybills
James Kilgo
“Kilgo’s powerful memoir does justice to the finest literature in the southern tradition.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Throughout this small, taut book, Kilgo’s feeling for the bottomland comes through in quiet,
honest, and convincing language.”—Outside Magazine
208 pp. | 17 illus.
Paper, $16.95t | 1760-1
Inheritance of Horses
James Kilgo
“These essays are made of the real stuff of life, movingly portrayed, deeply touched with
humor and dignity and sadness and, above all, the joy of life. There is great eloquence here.”
—Larry Brown
“A remarkable book. The prose has a deep and abiding grace married to a strikingly original
candor, more classic than confessional, more mainstream than au courant.”—Jim Harrison
160 pp.
Paper, $14.95t | 1796-0
Cloth, $24.95t | 1640-6
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Chattooga
Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
John Lane
“A native Southerner, Lane loves the leisurely, unfolding front-porch tale. . . . Yet he has written
a very modern book, one that argues that to look at a landscape or an animal in just one or
two ways is to diminish it. . . . [A]n insightful and companionable examination of a book, a
movie, and a river that still runs free.”—Orion
224 pp. | 1 map
Paper, $18.95t | 2775-4
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Circling Home
John Lane
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
“Two verbs: to roam, to home. Nature writers, going back at least to the great T’ang Dynasty
poets, have wrestled with these two urges. Lane spent the first half of his life roaming and
writing about life on the move. Now comes Circling Home, his big-hearted account of settling
down with a family and homing in on the richly textured landscape that surrounds his new
hearth. Like Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson before him, John Lane superbly demonstrates the
virtues and the obstacles of becoming native to one place.”
—Erik Reece, author of Lost Mountain
224 pp. | 1 map
Cloth, $24.95t | 3040-2
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Waist Deep in Black Water
John Lane
“His narratives are always excursions, which may be into the exotic outback of Suriname, up a
local mountain road, or down a suburban creek. They produce knowledge that is never final,
momentary illumination of what cannot be systematically elucidated.”
—Franklin Burroughs, author of The River Home
200 pp.
Paper, $18.95t | 2621-4
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Shatter Me with Dawn
A Celebration of Country Life
Sally Russell
Illustrations by Katie Ridley
Russell celebrates day-to-day rural living, the seasons and cycles of nature, the love of land and
family, and her own heart-driven ambition to make her home a place of harmony and refuge.
“A luminous and loving portrait with a rare beauty and subtlety that describes a way of life
already lost to most Americans.”—Philip Lee Williams
256 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 2298-8
Crossing Wildcat Ridge
A Memoir of Nature and Healing
Philip Lee Williams
“A unique and beautiful work lying somewhere in the interstices between poetry and prose,
between the scientist’s analysis and the mystic’s meditation. Within its fabric, two intertwine.
. . . Williams strips reality to the bone and with the precision of a Zen master’s sword slices
through to the immediacy of raw experience. . . . His passion then invites the reader to slow
down, see, hear, feel, and finally be, and in so being, be fulfilled.”—Bloomsbury Review
240 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 2090-8
Scratching the Woodchuck
Nature on an Amish Farm
David Kline
“Kline writes with joy, good humor, and style—I can’t think of a book that’s given me more
pleasure in years.”—Bill McKibben
“Kline’s vision goes beyond 20/20 into the realm of A/Z, where he eloquently uses all of the
letters in between to delight us with his insights from his wide travels at home. He’s an Amish
Thoreau, except he scratches the woodchuck that Thoreau ate.”—Wes Jackson
232 pp. | 5 drawings
Paper, $16.95t | 2154-7
American Plants for American Gardens
Edith A. Roberts and Elsa Rehmann
Foreword by Darrel G. Morrison
American Plants was one of the first popular books to promote the use of plant ecology and
native plants in gardening and landscaping and demonstrates the basic, practical application
of ecological principles to the selection of plant groups that are inherently suited to a particular climate, soil, topography, and lighting.
“Still one of the best books I have seen in respect to holistic natural design in the residential
landscape.”—Journal of the New England Garden History Society
176 pp.
Cloth, $34.95s | 1851-6
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The Unequal Hours
Moments of Being in the Natural World
Linda Underhill
“Illustrates the author’s close attention to nature as she describes the exquisite images and
character of her hometown in rural western New York State, a community threatened by a
toxic waste dump.”—Library Journal
160 pp.
Cloth, $24.95t | 2040-3
The Pond Lovers
Gene Logsdon
“In this charming collection, Logsdon explores the beauty and depths of the farm pond, how
it can become the center of the universe for the social fabric of a family, providing recreation
and a spot for reflection, and how it can become the center of the universe for sustainable
agriculture, providing food, solar energy, and waste treatment.”
—Mary Swander, author of Out of This World
176 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2954-3
Lessons from the Wolverine
Barry Lopez
Illustrated by Tom Pohrt
In this story of a spiritual adventure from the author and illustrator of Crow and Weasel, a
young man journeys through the arctic wilderness to find a family of wolverine and learn
more about their mysterious power. Lopez’s story, infused with gentle magic, shows how one
man comes to experience the wondrous power of animals and to understand his place in the
natural world in a new way.
“Please tell that collaborative pair not to separate. They have a lifework to do together.”
—Wallace Stegner
32 pp. | 13 color figures
Cloth, $15.95t | 1927-8
Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island
The Life of an Alutiiq Healer
Joanne B. Mulcahy
Foreword by Gordon L. Pullar
“A significant contribution to Alaskan anthropology and to the ethnographic literature about
Alutiiq people. Mulcahy’s writing is exceptional, and her scholarship meets the highest standards for ethnographic studies. Truly outstanding, she stands on the firm foundation established by Margaret Mead, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and Colin Turnbull.”
—Richard Nelson, author of Make Prayers to the Raven
208 pp. | 15 b&w photos | 1 map
Cloth, $24.95t | 2253-7
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Riska
Memories of a Dayak Girlhood
Riska Orpa Sari
Edited by Linda Spalding
1999 Finalist, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
“A lovely memoir . . . a rare and valuable record [and] a thoroughly original account of growing up in the rain forests of Borneo . . . Fresh, direct writing and sparkling, meandering connections between thoughts, snatches of conversation and memory.”—Globe and Mail
302 pp.
Paper, $16.95t | 2270-4
Chimpanzee Travels
On and Off the Road in Africa
Dale Peterson
“A lighthearted, deliciously amusing, but accurate story of Peterson’s travels into the forests
and byways of Africa in search of chimpanzees and the strange white apes who study them.”
—Jane Goodall
“Delightful . . . A book in which humor arm-wrestles with the pathos of paradise lost in modern Africa.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
288 pp. | 1 map
Paper, $18.95t | 2489-0
Visions of Caliban
On Chimpanzees and People
Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall
“Beautifully written, easily read, and ethically challenging—it just might become
primatology’s Silent Spring.”—Nature
“A study of the relationship between humans and chimps [that] asks, which is ‘most
brutish’?”—New York Times Book Review
392 pp. | 22 b&w photos | 1 map
Paper, $18.95t | 2206-3
Wisdom from a Rainforest
The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist
Stuart A. Schlegel
1999 Finalist, Philippine National Book Award, Social Science
In the early sixties, anthropologist Stuart A. Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the
Philippine island of Mindanao. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle
way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly.
“Very readable . . . A compelling portrait of a way of life very different from our own.”
—Washington Post Book World
288 pp. | 2 figures | 1 map
Paper, $19.95s | 2491-3
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Bamboo Fly Rod Suite
Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace
Frank Soos
Illustrations by Kesler Woodward
Soos’s painstaking restoration of an old bamboo fly rod becomes the central metaphor and the
unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here.
“A vivid account . . . Lays open in the hand as neatly as an elegant English fly box and would
handily fit in the outside pocket of a fishing vest.”—Chelsea
80 pp. | 31 photos
Paper, $14.95t | 2835-5
The Seasons of Cumberland Island
Fred Whitehead
“[A] lovely book . . . The photographs are simply stunning, and brilliantly capture
the drama and beauty of this remarkable landscape. There may be a more wonderful place in the National Park System than Cumberland, but I have yet to find
it.”—Bloomsbury Review
112 pp. | 118 photos | 1 map
Cloth, $39.95t | 2497-5
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
Ossabaw
Evocations of an Island
Jack Leigh, James Kilgo, and Alan Campbell
Winner of 2004 Georgia Author of the Year, Specialty Books
“Kilgo, Leigh, and Campbell present island lovers with a place that grips the
imagination and stirs the soul.”—Islands
112 pp. | 20 photos | 20 paintings
Cloth, $29.95t | 2642-9
The Last Harvest
Truck Farmers in the Deep South
Perry Dilbeck
Center Books on the American South
“Dilbeck’s plastic camera images are reverential even in their darkest corners, his entire body
of work—pictures and words—a liturgical offering to the cultural and visual richness of these
men and their care of land and community. His photographs document these farmers and
their agricultural spaces, but they do much more than simply record. They are at once an honest reflection of well-lived lives and transformative expressions of Dilbeck’s respectful and
creative vision.”—Tom Rankin, from the conclusion
112 pp. | 62 duotone photos
Cloth, $32.50t | 978-1-930066-49-6
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Peachtree Creek
A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta’s Watershed
David R. Kaufman
Winner of the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing
on the Southern Environment
“Kaufman’s original perspective, as a traveler along the urban creek that is now
hidden to most Atlantans, helps connect the past to the present through facts,
stories, and legends about this natural lifeline.”
—Sally Bethea, Executive Director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
232 pp. | 73 color, 97 b&w photos | 8 maps
Cloth, $34.95t | 2929-1
Published in association with the Atlanta History Center
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The State Botanical Garden of Georgia
Carol Nourse and Hugh Nourse
These 145 spectacular color photographs celebrate nature’s cycles in a splendid
and diverse southern garden. Each month for more than six years, Carol and
Hugh Nourse have explored the paths and collections of the State Botanical
Garden of Georgia in Athens, capturing the kaleidoscope of its seasons.
144 pp. | 145 color photos
Cloth, $34.95t | 2327-5
Wildflowers of Georgia
Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse
The 86 vividly detailed photographs presented in this large-format volume
capture the diversity and splendor of these sometimes elusive plants, many of
which are endangered by human activities.
“A book for everyone from the expert botanist to those unfamiliar with our state’s
native plants. Through its publication, the authors will inspire in all of us a love for
our native flora and a desire to protect and preserve it.”
—Greater Atlanta Gardener
120 pp. | 85 color photos
Cloth, $29.95t | 2179-0
Georgia’s Amazing Coast
Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas
David Bryant and George Davidson
Illustrated by Charlotte Ingram
Winner of 2004 Georgia Author of the Year, Children’s and Young Adult Literature
An inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the
flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea.
“[A] fun book about our fascinating coastal wildlife.”—Southern Living
112 pp. | 100 full-color illustrations
Paper, $14.95t | 2533-0
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Portrait of an Island
Mildred Teal and John Teal
When the Teals moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and
beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island’s unique
marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an
Island.
“This engagingly unpretentious account of the island and what the authors found there is informative—and happily evokes the idyllic atmosphere of the place.”—Audubon
184 pp. | 32 illus. figures | 1 map
Paper, $14.95t | 1961-2
Had I the Wings
The Friendship of Bachman and Audubon
Jay Shuler
Shuler offers the first in-depth portrayal of the John Bachman–John James Audubon
relationship and its significance in the creation of Audubon’s works, rescues from obscurity
Bachman’s contributions to American ornithology and mammalogy, and illuminates the
fascinating relationship between two major nineteenth-century naturalists.
“A valuable addition to the naturalist’s library.”—Journal of Southern History
252 pp. | 8 b&w photos
Paper, $18.00t | 2079-3
Okefinokee Album
Francis Harper and Delma E. Presley
Based on the photographs and writings of Francis Harper, a naturalist who visited the
Okefinokee Swamp repeatedly between 1912 and 1951, this book is filled with profiles of the
swamp dwellers, their wisdom, superstitions, songs, stories, and folkways, as well as a wealth
of information about the natural history of the swamp.
“Marvelous, candid photos out of time itself.”—Southern Living
212 pp. | 68 photos
Paper, $19.95t | 1274-3
As Eve Said to the Serpent
On Landscape, Gender, and Art
Rebecca Solnit
2002 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
“Reading Solnit’s various and vigorous essays is like hiking with an energetic and experienced
guide: One discovers the richness of place, and gains perspective.”—Bloomsbury Review
“Solnit . . . is the very model of a public intellectual.”—San Francisco Chronicle
234 pp. | 60 photos
Paper, $22.95t | 2493-7
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