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  • People of the Ucayali: The Shipibo and Conibo of Peru

    Series Book 12 - Publications in Ethnography
    This book describes the cultures of two closely related language groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo and Conibo. It shares personal observations of their subsistence and economic, social, and political organization. The book also looks at their view of medicine, the supernatural, and discusses their life cycles. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez

    A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sea of Cortez

    A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

    The collaboration of two friends—one a novelist, one a marine biologist—produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

    An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest

    The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon—at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to KnowFor thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Colors of Nature

    Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

    "An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature." —NPRFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixed-blood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oaxaca Journal

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **From "the poet laureate of medicine" and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian culture and hallucinogens, and the peculiar passions of botanists."Light and fast-moving. . . . Among the botanical and anthropological observations, one catches glimpses of Sacks's inner life: his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twelve Trees

    The Deep Roots of Our Future

    by Daniel Lewis ...
    A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees, offering “extensive insight into the ways in which humans and trees are interconnected” (BookPage), revealing the challenges facing our planet and how scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

    The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

    Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Great Kapok Tree

    A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

    by Lynne Cherry ...
    Illustrated by Lynne Cherry ...
    A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. "Spectacular." (School Library Journal)Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Ohlone Way

    Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

    Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” This land of “inexpressible fertility,” as one early explorer described it, supported one of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadows in the Sun

    Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

    by Wade Davis ...
    Wade Davis has been called "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural world.Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Animals

    by HEBE UHART ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    **“Hebe Uhart’s characters are made of an almost palpable material. They are alive, and they seem to emerge from the page to tell us, ‘This one here is me, that one over there could be you.’” — Alejandra Costamagna, The Paris Review“Reading Hebe Uhart we laugh a lot, although we are never sure if what we’ve read is just a joke, because in her words there is also, above all, precision and wisdom . ... Read more

    $15.99 USD