Spring Hardcovers: Nature & Environment

BBC Books

(dist. by trafalgar square/ipg)

Coast: The Journey Continues (May, $45) by Christopher Somerville explores the history and culture of the British and Irish coastlines.

Chronicle Books

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: East and Central North America Edition and ... Western North America Edition (June, $24.95 each) by Donald Kroodsma. The touch-button modules in each handbook offer birders auditory as well as visual identification of 75 species.

Columbia Univ. Press

American Pests (July, $24.95) by James E. McWilliams recounts America’s losing battle with nature and advocates a more harmonious relationship with insects. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.

Earth Aware Editions

(dist. by PGW)

Grand Canyon: A River at Risk (Mar., $45) by Wade Davis and Chris Rainer. This companion volume to Greg MacGillivray’s IMAX documentary Grand Canyon Adventure examines the looming global water crisis.

David R. Godine

Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou (June, $27.95) by Robert Leonard Reid recounts the author’s observations of animals in the changing Arctic environment.

Greystone Books

(dist. by pgw)

The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica (Apr., $23.95) by Meredith Hooper presents evidence of the continent’s radical climate change.

Houghton Mifflin

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (Aug., $26) by Roger Tory Peterson. This anniversary volume combines the Eastern and Western editions and contains rewritten text, new maps and digitally updated paintings. 200,000 first printing. 9-city Lee Peterson tour.

Hyperion

Born Survivor (May, $25.95) by Bear Grylls. The host of the Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild reveals survival techniques from the world’s most dangerous places.

W.W. Norton

Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Mar., $24.95) by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn profiles innovators and investors who champion the harnessing of market forces for environmental ends. Ad/promo. 9-city author tour.

Princeton Univ. Press

Life in Cold Blood (Mar., $29.95) by David Attenborough gets up close and personal with the living descendants of the first vertebrates.

Sunbelt Publications

Anza-Borrego: A Photographic Journey (Mar., $19.95) by Ernie Cowan captures the wildflowers and desert landscapes of one of the nation’s largest state parks, in California.

Univ. of Chicago Press

Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change (Apr., $22.50) by William H. Calvin delivers a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the planet.

Univ. of Georgia Press

Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (June, $22.95) by Barbara Hurd offers evocative nature observations in the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams and Gretel Ehrlich.

Univ. of Tennessee Press

Highway 61: Heart of the Delta (Apr., $36.95), edited by Randall Norris, photos by Jean-Philippe Cypres, celebrates the Mississippi Delta.

Univ. of Virginia Press

Darwin’s Fox and My Coyote: Why Science Alone Can’t Win the Race to Save Wild Animals (Mar., $27.95) by Holly Menino tracks foxes in South America and California.

Univ. Press of New England

Just Seconds from the Ocean: Coastal Living in the Wake of Katrina (Mar., $24.95) by William Sargent analyzes the dangers for residents in an era of global warming and megahurricanes.

Voyageur Press

A Grain of Sand: Nature’s Secret Wonder (Apr., $20) by Gary Greenberg. Microscopic photography reveals the amazing aspects of sand.

Welcome Books

Wild Birds of the American Wetlands (Apr., $39.95) by Rosalie Winard chronicles the author’s 10-year journey by foot, canoe, airboat and ATV to photograph some of the country’s most beautiful birds.

Yale Univ.

The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Mar., $28) by James Gustave Speth presents a plan to change the destructive world economy’s operating instructions before it is too late.