Nature

"Ice and Glaciers" is a scientific lecture delivered by Hermann von Helmholtz, the renowned German physicist and physiologist,…

Despite its title, this eighteenth-century work is a wide-ranging natural history of birds, not fish.

This English translation of Buffon’s natural-philosophical history of the Earth presents his seven epochs of the globe’s physical…

The book grew out of Pryor's direct experience as head trainer at Sea Life Park, the oceanarium on…

De vegetabilibus libri VII is a treatise on botany by Albertus Magnus, organized into seven books.

"Gesang des Deutschen" is a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, composed around the turn of the nineteenth century.

"Wohl geh' ich täglich andere Pfade" is a short lyric poem by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, known…

The catalogued work is American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, an anthology edited by Bill McKibben, with a…

Wilhelm von Humboldt examines Montserrat's singular geology and sublime aesthetic, describing its jagged silhouette like a saw against…

The work represents one of the most comprehensive surviving accounts of ancient botanical knowledge, systematically cataloguing and describing…

On Odours is a treatise by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, forming part of his larger botanical corpus.

Enquiry into Plants is a comprehensive botanical treatise by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, a student and successor…

Barn náttúrunnar is Halldór Laxness's first novel, published in 1919 when the author was just seventeen years old.

Dagleið á fjöllum is a collection of essays by the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, first published in 1937.

The essays gathered in Sjálfsagðir hlutir take up questions of Icelandic identity, culture, and society at a moment…