Published in 1992, Oliver's New and Selected Poems is a great overview of three decades of the poet's work. This collection received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1992.

In 2000, Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth published a helpful, interesting guide for anyone who enjoys being close to nature and wants to record the experience. Keeping a Nature Journal helps readers create ongoing journals for all seasons, describes simple ways to capture the natural world in words and pictures, and inspires readers to make "nature journaling" a part of daily life.

Any reader interested in animal biology and animal habitats will enjoy Bruce Batt's Snow Geese: Grandeur and Calamity on an Arctic Landscape (1998). Batt describes the natural history of the snow goose, its migratory paths and stopovers, and how the growing population of these birds is causing long-term degradation on...