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“A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal RobbinsIt’s 1873. Gore–Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century aw...

In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire i...

At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advo...

At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advo...

A memoir of the upstate New York getaway where the icons of the Beat Generation gathered.During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love we...

Hailed as one of the best books of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times, this group of twelve short stories was written over the past twenty years. From t...

A moving and offbeat story of unlikely friendship, the cost of ambition, and what happens when the things you’ve always run away from show up on yo...

Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award–winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and ...

A bold and bracing argument for the complete reimagining of the human diet by the critically acclaimed author of Just Food The human practice of fa...

This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmenta...

In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology: Re...

Learn how to beautifully landscape your home with clean, delicious vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries, saving money and natural resources at the...

In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a live...

The crisis of meaning is the issue of our time. The old beliefs that guided the West have faded, without credible replacement. Who lives well? What...

Eleanor Rushing knows Maxim Walters loves her. At the crowded city council meeting, he chooses to sit beside her; from his pulpit, he preaches only...

Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk —from this stunning landscape came the creation o...

Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk —from this stunning landscape came the creation o...

A generous and intimate novel from American literature's premier chronicler of middle-class angst in the new South.In Elroy Nights, Frederick Barth...

We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award–winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her fam...

Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British researc...

An absorbing tale of science and showmanship, ideology and enterprise, that provides not just a fascinating history of our country, but also crucia...

Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth–century merchant as a narrative guide, Empires of Food vividly chronicles the fate of people and societie...

The short fiction of Thaisa Frank has captivated readers for two decades, and now many of those pieces are collected in one volume, along with seve...

"Jan Redford is a bad–ass. She is also a born storyteller." —John Vaillant, author of The TigerIn this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Ou...