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Sharman Apt Russell
Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our…
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While on a class trip, twelve-year-olds May and Evan are transported from contemporary Phoenix into a desert land peopled by six tribes, each of which has its own, innate magical…
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To environmentalists, wilderness is a valuable resource and a sacred place; to many ranchers, wilderness means eviction and government interference. Russell, herself a westerner, here tackles the complex and controversial…
A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the early nineteenth century.
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From the beastly horned caterpillar whose blood helps it count time, to the peacock butterfly with wings that hiss like a snake, this title traces butterflies through their life cycles…
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An acclaimed nature writer reveals the secret life of flowers
An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. –Publisher’s description.
From the bestselling author of An Obsession with Butterflies comes a magical story of America in the time of the conquistadors. In 1528, the real-life Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca…
On a hotter and more volatile earth in the twenty-third century, humans like Clare and Jon live in utopia, hunting and gathering in small tribal bands, engaged in daily art…
Everything is connected, and the web is holy. So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist…
"In the tradition of Jean Auel, this well-researched novel authentically recreates the world of the Clovis people." -Publishers Weekly
These children had never seen a tapir. They had never seen…
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Filled with "honest" writing and "wise" observations, "Russell's well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest" (Library Journal).
In 1981, newlywed Sharman Apt Russell moved…
An award-winning science and nature writer "presents a lively, confident, and free-flowing history of archaeology in America" (Booklist).
Digging up the relics of the past is not without controversy. With…
A critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest.
Award-winning nature writer Sharman Apt Russell felt pressed by…
A delightful look at the science of butterflies-and our obsession with them-by an acclaimed nature writer
Every day we wake up hungry. Every day we break our fast. This book explores the range of this primal experience. It takes us on a tour of hunger, from…
Philip Jose Farmer
Philip Jose Farmer’s Up from the Bottomless Pit, originally written in the late 1970s with the working title The Dragon’s Breath, is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare…
