Now in its sixth year, this acclaimed series has become a leading showcase for contemporary nature writing. The annual collections present the best of the genre, highlighting both new and distinguished voices. With this volume, American Nature Writing, published for the past five years by Sierra Club Books, begins a new association with Oregon State University Press.

The eighteen selections gathered here show the rich variety of human responses to natural places. Readers encounter a wide range of settings: a village on the Baja peninsula; the high mountain trails of Glacier National Park in...

A special volume devoted to the writings of women.

The eighth edition of this acclaimed series offers a showcase for contemporary nature writing at the start of the new millennium. With subjects as diverse as the far-flung locations they describe, the twenty writers featured here share one defining objective: to show us that we need only look outdoors to find something worthy of our attention.

In these pages, readers encounter a profusion of natural settings:

-- Larry Glass considers the contrast between urban and rural life from his Allegheny Mountain retreat;

-- Carol Kosarek records a violent encounter between her dog and an...