Books

Polar explorer Edmund Stump has made 13 field trips to research and photograph the southern continent.

In a preview of our new book, we witness how, every five to seven years, the Atacama shows its true colors.

In a preview of our new book, we meet birds that form a sweet alliance with people.

In a preview of our new book, we watch the world’s largest living structure renews itself in nights of moonlit passion.

In a preview of our new book, we meet beautiful nonbinary animals that combine male and female characteristics.

In a preview of our new book, we meet some of humankind’s earliest muses.

In a preview of our new book, we look at scrappy and squat high-elevation trees that can live for thousands of years without seeming to age.

They will not be shushed.

Author Christopher Cokinos can’t get enough of the moon.

In a preview of our new book, we meet a small bird that makes a blood pact with a large mammal.

From a 1915 suffragist road trip to the “First Lady of Drag Racing.”

Beware the foreshadow of a darkened sky.

In a preview of our new book, we meet bats that construct tiny abodes of leaves, with built-in security alarms.

This fall, we're offering a stunning, all-new guide to the world's living wonders.

An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.

Two Victorian academics believed they saw Marie Antoinette at Versailles.