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Explore Wilderness Australia
by Hermes, Neil
Frenchs Forest, NSW: New Holland. 1998. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages. Over 80 ecotours across the Australian continent. . Reprint. Softcover.
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$9.26
A Naturalist in Alaska
by Murie, Adolph (signed); Olaus Murie (illustrator)
NY: Devin-Adair Company, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Third printing, 1963. Part of the American Naturalist Series. Signed on the title page in a blue pen, "Ade Murie," his nickname. Uncommon signed. A book that highlights the large mammals of Alaska, as Murie as a wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, which he worked for 32 years; there are chapters here on grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, arctic fox, caribou, wolverine, and Dall sheep. The book won the John Burroughs...
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$250.00
BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY
by Steve Edwards
5 pics-excellent condition with minimal shelf wear; spine uncreased; binding tight; pages pristine
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$16.50
The Man Who Would Dam the Amazon and Other Accounts from Afield
by Mitchell, John G
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1990. Very Good Conditoin. xiv, 368 pages. A collection of 12 articles from the field editor for 'Audubon' and former editor of Sierra Club Books. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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$7.94
Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra
by Zwinger, Ann (signed); Beatrice E. Willard
NY: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very/Very good. Signed on the title page by Zwinger in blue ink, and uncommon signed by her. This book was a finalist for the 1973 National Book Award in Science. "The first comprehensive book on the ecology of the alpine tundra of the United States," all of that tundra found in the West apart from New Hampshire's White Mountains, mainly in the Rockies, the Sierra, and the Cascades (the illustrated endpapers show a map of it throughout the country,...
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$300.00
The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound and Rifle
by Roosevelt, Theodore
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ The Knickerbocker Press, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. An uncommon book in the first edition, and especially notable because this copy belonged to The American Museum of Natural History which Roosevelt had a close association with. The Museum's bookplate is on the front pastedown with the deaccession stamp "A.M.N.H. Cancelled" on it. Additionally, tipped in on the title page is a "With the compliments of the author" slip--Roosevelt had the book sent to the...
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$3,500.00
The handbook of trail and Wilderness camping
by John A. Ledlie
Small pocket sized book. Some creases on spine.Pages intact . Tight binding.NAP.
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$518.42
The Kimberley. Australia's Wild Outback Wilderness
by Brown, Hugh
Broome, Western Australia: Published by Author. 2004. Small Quarto Size [approx 22.5cm x 21cm]. Very good condition - card wraps. Gloriously illustrated with professional colour photographs by the author. Colour map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 180 pages. The Kimberley in all its beauty and glory. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$19.84
Listening Point
by Olson, Sigurd (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Eleventh printing, 1977. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear George Hanson, Now that you have a Listening Point of your own, I know your understanding of mine will be far deeper than with most others. Warmest regards, Sigurd F Olson." An inscription of uncommon warmth and extent. George Hanson was a college librarian and book collector in Chicago, with a special passion for Iceland, and a copy of his obituary is laid in....
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$150.00
Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
by Green, Bill (signed)
NY: Harmony Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Tim Walsh, with all best wishes, Bill Green (April 1996)." Uncommon signed. This book won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1996. Green is a geochemist, a professor emeritus at Miami University in Ohio, and this book shares his science and self-discovery in Antartica where he studied lakes devoid of life. From the jacket: "Water, Ice and Stone is a rare achievement...
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$350.00
Arctic Wild
by Crisler, Lois (signed)
NY: Harper, 1958. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed to no recipient on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes! Lois Crisler, For 'lands forever wild.'" Uncommon signed. An account of the author and her husband, Herb Crisler, a wilderness photographer, spending 18 months in Alaska's Brooks Range to film caribou and wolves for a Disney documentary. A. Starker Leopold called her wolf observations "the meticulous and complete descriptions of wolf mannerisms and behavior that has been written." Crisler was an...
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$300.00
The High Sierra of California (association copy)
by Snyder, Gary; Tom Killion (signed)
Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title by Snyder: "For Stephen Ronan." Signed by both Snyder and Killion. The first trade edition of a book that Killion printed under his Quail Press in a limited edition of 90 copies. His full-color woodcut prints with Snyder's poems and Sierra journal entires, as well excerpts from John Muir's journals. A stunning production. Snyder and Killion went on to produce two follow up books in this vein about the...
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$250.00
Icebound Summer
by Carrighar, Sally (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Second printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed with particular pleasure for Ellen and Herman Smith remembering their day in Nome--Sally Carrigahar, July 24, '54." Uncommon signed. Carrighar was an accomplished mid-century naturalist-writer known for her third-person narration that animates wildlife, but doesn't anthropomorphize them. You could call these composite stories, as they're based on her real observations--this...
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$200.00
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness (with signed postcards)
by Fromm, Pete (signed)
NY: Lyons & Burford, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on the title page by Fromm. Additionally laid in are two postcards from Fromm to an Oregon journalist about buying first editions of this and another book direct from him. Apparently they weren't readily available then, and a first edition of Indian Creek Chronicles appears to be uncommon now, with no other obvious copies available online. This is Fromm's terrific debut, a memoir telling of the winter he spent alone in a wall tent...
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$400.00
Reflections from the North Country
by Olson, Sigurd (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Second printing. Inscribed at length, filling the front free endpaper: "For George Hanson, Herewith is my Credo, a crystallization of my faith and belief after a lifetime of exploring the wilderness regions of the continent. I know my thoughts will echo many of your own. Warmest regards, sincerely, Sigurd F. Olson, 3/16/76, Ely." Uncommon signed, especially with this depth of expression. George Hanson was a college librarian and book...
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$275.00
Into the Wild
by Krakauer, Jon (signed)
Villard, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First printing, signed in blue ink by Krakauer on the title page. An enormously influential book turned motion picture. Fine book in near fine jacket with some soiling to spine and a touch of creasing to spine tail. Comes with a hardback first edition reading copy of *The Wild Truth* (2014) by Carrine McCandless, Chris's sister, which tells further backstory about what pushed Chris to such limits and includes a foreword by Krakauer (fine in near...
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$750.00
Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves and Forests (association copy)
by Flader, Susan (signed): Walter E. Scott (inscribed to)
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Walter Scott, With deepest thanks for all your help. Susan Flader." With his bookplate on the pastedown and his ownership signature on the first blank. Walter E. Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is thanked in the acknowledgments for "greatly facilitating" her research. Scott was an important Wisconsin environmentalist and is a member of...
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$625.00
Wilderness and Plenty (The Reith lectures)
by Frank Fraser Darling
1st printing; Clean tight pages, lightly tanned; bright cover with light wear only. A Friends of the Earth book.
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$8.80
My First Summer in the Sierra
by Muir, John
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. A presumed second printing, but with a scarce original jacket. "June 1911" is stated on the copyright page, but there is no date on title page, and the list of other Muir titles in the front matter includes The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, first published in 1913. Elegant inscription on the front free endpaper reads "Bertha C. Chase, from Charles and Virgie, Christmas 1918." Laid in is a card that reads "Compliments of Dr. &...
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$1,250.00
The American Wilderness, in the Words of John Muir
by John Muir
Country Beautiful Corporation, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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$7.97
Passage Through El Dorado. Traveling the World's Last Great Wilderness
by Kandell, Jonathan
New York: William Morrow. 1984. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white maps. 312 pages. Travelling an ever-southeastward course, the author discovers the hinterland of South America. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$13.23
Wilderness and Plenty
by Frank Fraser Darling
Oxford University Press. Very Good. 21 cm. Paperback. 1970. 88 pages. <br> .
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$6.64
