New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau's 1843 essay "A Winter Walk" is a loving celebration of winter and walking. Thoreau vividly renders the winter season, writing of its sparkling beauty,...
A boxed set of 4 books from the American Roots Series, handsomely assembled in a slipcased set. Includes: Camping Out by Ernest Hemingway, The Last Will and Testament of an...
The original manual of the Camp Fire Girls, an organization among whose founders were Dr. & Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick, was published in 1912. The motto of the Camp Fire...
In this piece from 1920‚ originally published as a newspaper article in the Toronto Daily Star‚ young Ernest Hemingway provides solid advice to the novice camper. In his typically succinct...
Twelve-year-old Job lived on a mountain in the Catskills with his grandfather. One December Christmas Eve, when his grandfather had gone to town leaving Job to care for the cow...
The collection of edible mushrooms has long been both a necessity and a hobby for many Americans. William Gibson's beautifully illustrated 1895 work is a basic reference to thirty common...
In this beautifully written and well-illustrated guide to birds' songs from 1904, F. Schuyler Mathews describes 127 bird species, mostly of Eastern United States, and their songs. This field book...
Applewood Books celebrates our country's national parks with this inspiring collection of quotations about "America's best idea," presented in a handsome hardcover keepsake edition. Included are quotes from some of...
In November 1870, Picturesque America was launched by American publisher Appleton & Co. as a "series of papers... consisting of splendidly-executed views of the most unfamiliar and novel features of...
