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Often out snipping or clipping first thing in the morning, Liz turns her wicked wit on snails and slugs, triumphs and disasters, nosy neighbours and expensive tree surgeons. Here is everything from the joy of a first crocus to the irritation of losing a much loved trowel. No-one manages to take such delightful snapshots of everyday gardening life quite like Liz Cowley. This is the perfect gift for garden-lovers everywhere; a sparkling voice whose wry, astute humour will find fans far beyond just...

In Invention of the Wilderness, Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm-a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for order, exploitation, expansion, or preservation. Although to talk of "inventing" the wilderness seems paradoxical, the book seeks to reclaim the etymological root of "invention" as a "venturing in." To invent a wilderness is to go inward by way of attentive engagement in the natural world, to affirm and...

The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the border of Mexico, west across the Trans-Pecos, and up through Northern New Mexico into Colorado. Photographer Jerod Foster and poet John Poch praise and wonder along these varied waterways and across the landscapes they host. The result is communion—a synergy of imagery in story and story in imagery, finding unexpected form, depths, and meaning much as...