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Travels on the Edge
A Naturalist’s Notes from the Back of Beyond
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781606181539
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
This Land Is...
Field Notes on American Ground
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780873282741
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
176 Pages
Jane Colden's "Botanic Manuscript"
The Legacy of America's First Woman Botanist
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781606180471
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
144 Pages
The Atlantic Republic of Letters
Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829310
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829631
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison.
Sketching Splendor
American Natural History, 1750-1850
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781606180402
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
112 Pages
This exhibition catalog examines the work of William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon. Advancing scientific innovations even as they relied on and promoted colonization and slavery, their work speaks to the conflicted nature of our nation’s early history and the place of natural historians in that complex landscape.
Natural Designs
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and visual and textual analysis, Elizabeth Gansen explores how Oviedo, in his writings, brought the European Renaissance to bear on his understanding of New World nature.
Botanical Poetics
Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823332
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking—one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces—transformed the period’s conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book.
John James Audubon
The Nature of the American Woodsman
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823714
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
In John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman, Gregory Nobles shows that one of Audubon's greatest creations was himself. Nobles explores the central irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so carefully left us a bold but deceptive picture of himself.
Travels on the Edge
A Naturalist’s Notes from the Back of Beyond
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781606181539
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
This Land Is...
Field Notes on American Ground
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780873282741
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
176 Pages
Jane Colden's "Botanic Manuscript"
The Legacy of America's First Woman Botanist
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781606180471
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
144 Pages
The Atlantic Republic of Letters
Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829310
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829631
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison.
Sketching Splendor
American Natural History, 1750-1850
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781606180402
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
112 Pages
This exhibition catalog examines the work of William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon. Advancing scientific innovations even as they relied on and promoted colonization and slavery, their work speaks to the conflicted nature of our nation’s early history and the place of natural historians in that complex landscape.
Natural Designs
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and visual and textual analysis, Elizabeth Gansen explores how Oviedo, in his writings, brought the European Renaissance to bear on his understanding of New World nature.
Botanical Poetics
Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823332
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
Botanical Poetics brings together studies of ecology, science, literary form, and the material text to explore how a distinctive style of early modern plant-thinking—one that understood both plants and poems as composites of small pieces—transformed the period’s conceptions of nature, poetic language, and the printed book.
John James Audubon
The Nature of the American Woodsman
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823714
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
In John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman, Gregory Nobles shows that one of Audubon's greatest creations was himself. Nobles explores the central irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so carefully left us a bold but deceptive picture of himself.