Timber Press – Books -Narrative Nonfiction
Narrative & Memoir
This book is dangerous.
Vicki Lane, author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries
Gardening Can Be Murder
With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. Gardening Can Be Murder is the first book to explore the mystery genre’s many surprising horticultural connections.
Literary Landscapes
A Place Like Mississippi
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life
The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
Unearthing The Secret Garden
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Writing Wild
An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health
Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The Cryptonaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature.
Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn. Ranging from optimistic contemplations of mortality to appreciations of a single mushroom, Anderson has written a lyrical love letter to the natural world and given us the tools to see it all anew.
Cover image copyright the Artist (Tuesday Riddell), reproduced with grateful thanks to MESSUMS ORG. Photo: Steve Russell.
Personal Journeys
Bicycling with Butterflies
Ms. Adventure
Psilocybin Therapy
The Return of Wolves
The Shotgun Conservationist
To Speak for the Trees
Superconvergence
What We Sow
Garden Reflections
American Roots
A Way to Garden
The Earth in Her Hands
The Garden in Every Sense and Season
Uprooted
Windcliff
Uncover Darwin’s most important writings about plants with this important collection featuring expert interpretations and rare illustrations.
Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of his contribution to the natural sciences is focused on plants. His observations are crucial to our modern understanding of everything from the amazing pollination process of orchids to the way that vines climb. Darwin and the Art of Botany collects writings from six often overlooked texts devoted entirely to plants, and pairs each excerpt with beautiful botanical art from the library at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, creating a gorgeously illustrated volume that never existed in Darwin's own lifetime, and hasn't since. Evolutionary botanist and science historian James Costa brings his expertise to each entry, situating Darwin's words in the context of the knowledge and research of the time. The result is a new way of visualizing Darwin's work, and a greater understanding of the ways he's shaped our world.Discover the World Around Us
All the Presidents' Gardens
Experiencing Olmsted
Iwigara
Lakes
The Nature of Oaks
Our National Forests
Our Native Bees
Paradise on the Hudson
As climate change continues to intensify, the outlook for life on Earth often seems bleak. Yet we can find hope in the “rescue effect,” nature’s innate ability to persist during hard times. Like a thermostat starting the air conditioning when a room gets too warm, the rescue effect automatically kicks in when organisms are stressed.
In The Rescue Effect, Michael Mehta Webster reveals the science behind nature’s resilience, through compelling stories of species adapting to our changing world: tigers in the jungles of India, cichlid fish in the great lakes of Africa, and corals in the Caribbean. In some cases, like the mountain pygmy-possum in Australia, species may be lost without our help. We are not only observers to species declines; we are often also the cause. In choosing whether and how to help, we must navigate challenging questions about emerging technologies and the ethics of conservation.
Ultimately, there are good reasons to expect a bright future. Everywhere we look, we see evidence that nature can rescue species from extinction. When nature alone is not up to the task, we can help. Combining rigorous research with gripping storytelling, The Rescue Effect provides the cautious optimism we need to help save life on Earth.
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