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In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's Denkbilder, or...

The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this...

Caldecott Honor winner Elisha Cooper invites readers to grab their oars and board a canoe down a river exploration filled with adventure and beauty.In Cooper's flowing prose and stunning watercolor...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers...

An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rivers were the arteries of our first...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE *It’s not a river, it’s this river.A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After...

Named a Best Horror Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Best Book of the Year by Reactor and the Chicago Public LibraryWelcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home,...

A companion to Spooky Lakes, a New York Times and Indiebound bestseller!Take the plunge into the strangest, spookiest, and most fascinating rivers around the world (if you dare) in this illustrated...

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi—forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the...

Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin--a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames to the mighty Mississippi—the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world's great writers.River...

Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selectionÑthe only work of nonfiction on the 2008 listÑBlood River is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim...

Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in PoetryEric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short ListMedal Provocateur FinalistIPNE Book Awards Poetry WinnerTender the River captures in verse the history and legacy...

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel...

"The fierce and arresting debut memoir of a firefighter navigating the constraints of what it means to be female-bodied in a male-dominated industry, Hotshot is a timely reckoning with both the...

Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates...

"The Virgin River books are so compelling—I connected instantly with the characters and just wanted more and more and more." —#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie MacomberWelcome back to...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * Winner of The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award A new classic of science reporting."--The New York Times The true story of a small town ravaged...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s...

In Glory River, David Huddle’s poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humor against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are...