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Muir, age 73 and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40, 000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. His journals and correspondence allow readers to travel with him and provide a rare glimpse of a man with interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist. Illustrations.

The writing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning zoologist is exquisite, crystalline, precise, and eminently readable, this is nature writing at its best".--"Library Journal". "This book is a gem, one of light, hope, and wonder that makes a provocative argument for who we are and where we must go".--"The Boston Globe". Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor and curator in entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Universi...

In Keepers of the Spring, author and journalist Fred Pearce travels the globe in search of alternatives to mega-engineering projects. He recounts the inspiring experiences of small-scale water stewards and discovers that the solution to our water problems lies in recovering ancient traditions, using water more efficiently, and better understanding local hydrology.

. . . a pleasing concoction of natural and cultural history illustrating how pollination works and how easily it can be disrupted. . . . More than the species and the land that holds them, the book suggests, the living world to be cherished includes everything that these creatures, plants, and places do--the much more vital and intangible biodiversity of interactions and relationships".--"The New York Times Book Review". Illustrations.

This book presents the views of Aldo Leopold, author of the best-selling A Sand County Almanac and the most famous of 20th century American conservationists, on the topic of "land health, " which he defined as "the capacity for self-renewal in the biota." The focus in this volume is mostly on how to promote conservation on privately held lands, which constitute about two-thirds of the land in the United States.

In Earth in Mind, Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that alienates us from life in the name of human domination, causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they are, overemphasizes success and careers, separates feeling from intellect and the practical from the theor...