"A marvelous and widely informed guide to slowing down and paying attention. All the wonders, tangles, laughter, and strangenesses of place and critter reveal themselves before the keen and roving…

Babcock has lived off-grid for 30 years and shares his lessons of surviving with the natural world in the last remaining wilderness of the Mississippi River headwaters region.

In Cambodia, the increasing scarcity of rural labour is pushing farmers to find ways to manage large rice fields with meagre resources and continuously emerging crop management constraints, especially for…