David Gessner Books
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, And The American West
By David Gessner, Gessner, David
An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it. Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints...
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Wonder And Other Survival Skills
By Chris Dombrowski, David Gessner, Susanne Antonetta, Brian Doyle, Amy Leach, Scott R. Sanders, Ann Zwinger, Diane Ackerman, Anthony Doerr, Georgian Valoyce-Sanchez, Orion Society, Teddy Macker, Rick Bass, John Calderazzo, Michael P. Branch, Scott Russell Sanders, Aleria Jensen, Kristi Dranginis
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Animals & People
By Brian Doyle, Mary OLiver, David Gessner, Amy Leach, Kathleen Jamie, Craig Childs, J.B. Mackinnon, Christopher Ketcham, Orion Society, Lisa Couturier, Pattiann Rogers, Sy Montgomery
"Perhaps nothing illuminates the complexity of our relationship to the natural world better than the relationship between people and animals: we wonder at them, use them, adore them, mourn them, pr...
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All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, And The American West
By David Gessner, Gessner, David
An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it. Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints...
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The Prophet Of Dry Hill
David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature-writing legend, author of fifteen books, Hay was something of a hero to the younger Gessner. But it wasn’t until he returned to his childhood ho...
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The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond The Oiled Pelican And Into The Heart Of The Gulf Oil Spill
This bestselling account of an environmental disaster's aftermath offers “a firsthand look at the Gulf after the news cycle ended... brilliant.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Winner of an ASLE...
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Return Of The Osprey
When David Gessner returned to Cape Cod, where he spent summers as a child, he noticed something he had never seen before: hawks with magnificent six-foot wingspans and dark masks. In Return of the...
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My Green Manifesto: Down The Charles River In Pursuit Of A New Environmentalism
All environmentalism is local: “A wonderfully readable book” about saving the planet by focusing first on our own habitats (The Boston Globe). Though environmental awareness is on the rise, our mar...
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