The Invisible Garden
 The Invisible Garden: This is an enchanting book, subtle in working on many levels to capture and to hold your attention. The theme, intertwining the impact on her life of some family and friends with various aspects of gardening life, works surprisingly [... more]
$15.00
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The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the ...
Amazon.com Review: In the hearts of the elaborate Renaissance gardens of Italy, writes essayist John Hanson Mitchell, lie small patches of untended ground, overgrown with moss and tangled undergrowth, called boscos. These wild patches are there to remind [... more]
$15.95
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
how to get to know a place....: ....is what the author shows you throughout this highly readable tale of Scratch Flat, a mile-square locale near Concord. The history of its geography, botany, and inhabitants unfolds here in lucid prose devoid of [... more]
$16.95
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Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage From Andalusia ...
Biking Towards the Sun Hits High Gear: John Hanson Mitchell, editor of "Sanctuary," the journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, begins riding a 40-year-old-plus Peugeot bicycle north on the first day of spring in southern Spain. The [... more]
$32.95
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The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher Reader
Amazon.com Review: Perhaps it is the title, The Measure of Her Powers, that is the organizing principle behind this collection of writings lifted from the incredible oeuvre that M.F.K. Fisher left behind. A measurement, then, a means of finally [... more]
$22.95
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Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily
Amazon.com Review: A mattanza, in Italian, is a slaughter--in the instance Theresa Maggio relates, a springtime slaughter of bluefin tuna, the fish highly prized by sports fishermen and gourmands. In these elegant pages, Maggio describes the hard lives [... more]
$25.00
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The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of ...
Amazon.com Review: In The Trouser People, Andrew Marshall recounts his ambitious crisscrossing of contemporary Burma, which emerges as isolated, heartbreaking, fitfully resilient, and, to Western eyes, certainly, often exotically unfathomable. Marshall's [... more]
$16.00
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Four Corners: Into the Heart of New Guinea-One Woman's ...
A harrowing journey of self-discovery: A compulsive traveler to remote and dangerous places, Kira Salak is on a journey of self-discovery. The trouble is, she keeps making the same mistakes. Intent on proving that she, a young, single woman, can go [... more]
$34.95
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Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America
Amazon.com Review: Although critics would have New Age spirituality deemed trendy and fleeting, author and religious scholar Eugene Taylor offers a convincing testament to the historical worthiness and longevity of the alternative spirituality movement. [... more]
$18.00
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Running After Antelope
Amazon.com Review: The signs that Scott Carrier was a writer and not an athlete showed up early. At the age of 12, Carrier was the free safety and captain of the defense on his football team. During one game he got his teammates into a huddle and told [... more]
$14.00
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Appetites: Why Women Want
Amazon.com Review: The final and remarkable book of best-selling author Caroline Knapp underlines her gift of leveraging her life experiences into provocative lessons. On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating—-complete with Knapp's [... more]
$14.95
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Threads of Time: Recollections
Amazon.com Review: When the 18-year-old, self-taught director Peter Brook brought his first play to the London stage he inaugurated a long and illustrious career. Perhaps best known for his London production of the play Marat/Sade and the nine-hour stage [... more]
$14.00
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