- To purchase a book, click on the GoodSearch icon and then enter the Association of State Wetland Managers into the box asking for “Goodshop for…” if ASWM is not already listed.
- Choose a store
- Then click on GoodShop this store on the coupon webpage
- On the store’s website, search for the book you wanted to buy (the credit to ASWM will be handled by GoodShop and the participating store)
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The Old Man and the Swamp: A True Story About My Weird Dad, a Bunch of Snakes, and One Ridiculous Road Trip
by John Sellers, 2011, 208 pages, Simon & Schuster; Original edition
In a fit of questionable judgment, consummate indoorsman John Sellers tags along on a journey to search for snakes with his eccentric, aging father--an obsessive fan of Bob Dylan, a giver of terrible gifts, a drinker of boxed wine, a minister- turned-heretic, and, most importantly, the self-designated guardian of the threatened copperbelly water snake.
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Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February-May 1863
by Dr. Donald S. Frazier, 2011, 368 pages, State House Press
Echoes from the Battle of Galveston had barely faded before a new Federal offensive began rolling down the banks of the Mississippi River. General Ulysses S. Grant, intent on reducing the Confederate citadel at Vicksburg, began looking for ways to reduce the fortress and return control of the mightiest of American rivers to northern control.
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Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
by Jessica Speart, 2011, 320 pages, William Morrow
One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. And in this cutthroat $200 million business, no one made more money than—or posed as great an ecological danger as—Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers.
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Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species (Florida History and Culture)
by Craig Pittman, 2010,
416 pages, University Press of Florida
Why is the manatee just as imperiled today as it was 40 years ago? Loveable or loathed? Poster child for conservation efforts or impediment to development? Nuisance or in need of protection? For the past two decades, the quiet manatee has been a flash point of frequent environmental debates. |
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Fly rods and fly-tackle; suggestions as to their manufacture and use
by Henry P. Wells, 2010, 380 pages, Nabu Press
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. |
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The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana
by Rick Bass, 2009, 384 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month — the initial cruel teasing of spring, the splendor and fecundity of summer, and the bittersweet memories evoked by fall. |
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Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
by David M. Carroll, 2009, 208 pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminates the ecology and life histories the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, and the increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been tracking for decades with the precision and passion that won him a 2006 MacArthur "genius" award.
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Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss
by Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite, 2009, 376 pages, University Press of Florida
Exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction. |
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Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing
edited by Joel Greenberg, 2008, 424 pages, University of Chicago Press
In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago’s landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In Of Prairie, Woods, and Water, naturalist Jo el Greenberg gathers these unique voices from the land to present an unexpected portrait of Chicago in this often charming, sometimes heart-wrenching anthology of nature writing. |
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Wild Birds of the American Wetlands
by Temple Grandin (Foreword), Terry Tempest Williams (Introduction), Rosalie Winard (Photographer), 2008, Random House Inc.
For over a decade, photographer Rosalie Winard has traveled the country by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV, taking pictures of large birds of the wetlands from Florida to California, Louisiana to North Dakota. Her intimate portraits--tethered to an ethereal palette of white, gray, and black--are alight with Winard's passion for the avian world and its endangered terrain.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard, 2007, 304 pages, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence.".
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The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
by Michael Grunwald, 2007, 480 pages, Simon and Schuster
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. |
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Everglades River of Grass 60th Anniversary Edition
by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 2007, 447 pages Pineapple Pr.
Updated and revised for the 60th Anniversary. New afterword by Michael Grunwald, author of The Swamp. |
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibben, 2004, 312 pages, Beacon Press
First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau"s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever.
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Liquid Land, A Journey Through the Florida Everglades
by Ted Levin, 2003, 320 pages, University of Georgia Press
Consider just two of the countless facts about the damage we have done to the Everglades: Half of its original 14,000-square-mile expanse is gone, and saving what is left will cost at least $8.4 billion. Alluding to destruction on a scale we can barely grasp, figures like these can at once stir and immobilize us. In Liquid Land, Ted Levin guides us past the dire headlines and into the magnificent swamp itself, where we come face-to-face with the plants, animals, and landscapes that remain and that will survive only if we protect them.
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan, 2002, 304 pages Random House Trade Paperbacks; 1 edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. |
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson, 2002, 400 pages, Mariner Books; Anv edition
This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson"s watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson"s courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
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Fishless Days, Angling Nights
by Sparse Grey Hackle, 2001, 224 pages, The Lyons Press
Fishless Days, Angling Nights is a rich and varied treasury of superb stories and articles by the acknowledged "Dean of American Fly Fishermen." It memorably records the perils and rewards, the delights and disappointments of a lifetime of sporting days and nights on the stream. |
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Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year
by David Carroll, 2001, 304 pages Mariner Books
David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, and vernal ponds and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges--everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this "intimate and wise book" (Sue Hubbell), Carroll takes us on a lively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours -- and to all life on Earth.
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Trout Madness
by Robert Traver, 2000, 196 pages, The Lyons Press
Trout Madness was John D. Voelker's (aka, Robert Traver) fifth book (to be followed by his equally popular, Trout Magic). Here, for the delight of his many fans and friends, are twenty-one stories gleaned from the lifetime of glorious fishing - as true as can be expected of a fisherman. |
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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Susan Orlean, 2000, 300 pages , Ballantine Books
The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve.
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The Rape of the Wetlands
by Keith A Wilkins, 2000, 231 pages, Writers Club Press
Cody Matheson, PhD in marine biology, faces a ruthless developer, sexual intrique, and threatened death as he struggles to save pristine wetlands from destruction.
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The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times
by Charles Royster, 2000, 640 pages, Vintage
From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous wealth for himself and other shareholders, including George Washington.
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The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation
by Izaak Walton, 1998, 464 pages, Modern Library
For a book to stay in print for nearly 350 years, its merits must continually entice and allure. The Compleat Angler satisfies that on two counts. On the most obvious level, it remains as good a primer on fishing as any angler would want. |
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All My Rivers Are Gone: A Journey of Discovery Through Glen Canyon
by Katie Lee and Terry Tempest Williams, 1998, 240 pages, Johnson Books
"Katie Lee’s "All My Rivers Are Gone" is a unique book. It is a journal filled with strong emotions about a wondrous place on the American landscape. Her entries tell the sad saga of the decision to flood Glen Canyon on the Colorado River. Her words and songs make the canyon come alive and they provide a vivid picture of what has been lost.
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The Edge of the Sea
by Rachel Carson, 1998, 304 pages, Mariner Books
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements.
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The Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson, 1998, 112 pages, Harper Collins
First published more than three decades ago, this reissue of Rachel Carson's award-winning classic brings her unique vision to a new generation of readers. Stunning new photographs by Nick Kelsh beautifully complement Carson's intimate account of adventures with her young nephew, Roger, as they enjoy walks along the rocky coast of Maine and through dense forests and open fields, observing wildlife, strange plants, moonlight and storm clouds, and listening to the "living music" of insects in the underbrush.
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The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson, Ann H. Zwinger (Foreword), Jeffrey S. Levinton (Afterword), 1991, 288 pages, Oxford University Press, USA
Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Reintroducing a classic work to a whole new generation of readers, this Special Edition features a new chapter written by Jeffrey Levinton, a leading expert in marine ecology, that brings the scientific side of the book completely up to date. |
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Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist
by Judith Reick Long, 1990, 286 pages, Indiana Historical Society
When Gene Stratton-Porter died in 1924, she was one of America’s most popular novelists and the best-known Indiana author. In this first complete account of Stratton-Porter’s life, Judith Reick Long reveals the author of sentimental and simple nature tales as a much more complex individual than she has heretofore been considered. |
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
by Annie Dillard, 1988,
176 pages, Harper Perennial; Revised edition
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.
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A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold, 1949, 240 pages, Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands. |
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