World of Trees

by Henry David Thoreau

LITERATURE
2012
HARD COVER
127 PAGES

Henry David Thoreau considers the red maple, elm, sugar maple and scarlet oak in turn in this classic ode to autumn -- not as the season of senescence but of ripeness, fullness, and maturity. Originally published in 1862, this handsome new edition is illustrated with Lincoln Perry's full-page watercolors and includes an introduction by Thoreau biographer Robert Richardson (Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind). (USE569, $17.95)

The World of Trees

by Hugh Johnson

NATURAL HISTORY
2010
HARD COVER
400 PAGES

An excellent resource for landscape architects, botanists, and admirers of trees everywhere, Hugh Johnson's magnificently illustrated compendium celebrates 600 forest and garden trees from the much-loved Oaks to Plum Yews, Podocarps and Southern Beeches. (NAT222, $36.95)

The Sibley Guide to Trees

by David Allen Sibley

NATURAL HISTORY
2009
FLEXI-BOUND
426 PAGES
NEW

Sibley turns his attention from birds to the trees where they live in this superb field guide to 668 species of native and commonly planted trees north of the Rio Grande. Bark, leaves, twigs, fruit, flowers and silhouettes are all meticulously illustrated. (NAT176, $39.95)

A Natural History of North American Trees

by Donald Culross Peattie | Verlyn Klinkenborg

NATURAL HISTORY
2007
HARD COVER
528 PAGES

Culross Peattie's graceful essays on America and its forests, originally published in the 1950s, with black-and-white etchings, feature the finest writing ever on the mighty oak, stately birch, magnificent beech and other native trees. (NAM40, $40.00)

The Tree

by John Fowles | Barry Lopez

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2010
PAPER
128 PAGES

The 30th anniversary edition of the English novelist John Fowles' celebrated meditation on the value of wilderness "The key to my fiction," he writes, "lies in my relationship with nature." Both The Magus (GRE131, $16.99), famously set on a Greek island, and The French Lieutenant's Woman (GBR209, $15.99) are also out in handsome new editions this season. (NAT229, $13.99)