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From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist comes an impassioned memoir about an Indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest. Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.

A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms. “Moving . . . Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.” —The New York Times. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years.

New York Times Bestseller - An Audible Best Nonfiction Listen of 2024 - TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 - A Best Book of the Year: Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly - An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year. "A masterpiece of science writing." — Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass. "Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." — Ed Yong, author of An Immense World. "Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!" — Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction. "A brilliant must-read.

A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years, Poseidon's Steed follows the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe, tracing a rich history of fascination with the animal. From the reefs of Indonesia to the back streets of Hong Kong and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome, seahorses have surfaced in unexpected places. They appear in decorative arts, tribal folklore, literature, ancient myths, and early medical texts, where they were prescribed to treat ailments ranging from skin complaints to baldness.

Starting with the viral poem “Crossing Half of China to Fuck You,” Yu Xiuhua’s raw collection in Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s translation chronicles her life as a disabled, divorced, single mother in rural China. Yu Xiuhua was born with cerebral palsy in Hengdian village in the Hubei Province, in central China. Unable to attend college, travel, or work the land with her parents, Yu remained home where she could help with housework. Eventually she was forced into an arranged marriage that became abusive. She divorced her husband and moved back in with her parents, taking her son with her.

Aimer la terre, plus qu'un livre de poème, est une profession de foi en la nature, l'amour et l'humain. Le poète Jean Désy invite au meilleur de chacun.e, visant ces risques heureux qui défont de tout orgueil, seule la nature guide ici les pas et les âmes. Si le langage était simplement la descente en rivière, un rêve de lichen et de mousse ou le cri d'une perdrix qui rappellent la chanson des forêts? Retour à ce temps primal où les expériences de la vie avaient pour parti pris le langage des vivants.

Reese's Book Club Pick. The perfect audiobook for nature lovers, birders, and gardeners. * USA Today Bestseller * National Bestseller * Amazon Editor's Pick * Indie Next Pick. From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a "howling love letter to the world" (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural. In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year.

Entre le Québec et le Nouveau-Brunswick s'étend une rivière majestueuse aux eaux d'une rare transparence, aux imposantes berges boisées, où foisonne une population de saumon qui en a fait un lieu prisé des animaux et des hommes depuis des temps immémoriaux : la Ristigouche. Naviguant ses flots depuis l'enfance, l'écrivain et journaliste Philip Lee remonte dans son canot pour nous entraîner sur les anciennes routes de portage jusqu'au cours principal, qu'il descend vers l'estuaire de la baie des Chaleurs.

Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing-held by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing.

Following the huge success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world. In each of twelve short poems, a child tells us how or why they feel like the sun, a river, a mountain, a cloud, the rain, a forest and more. Their deeply felt connections and identification with these wonders point to how much we are all part of the natural world. Each poem comes to life through vivid, playful illustrations that show the children immersed in their surroundings.