Smaller books for your pockets
A book that fits in a pocket is a different kind of object. It doesn't require a bag, a table, or a plan. It goes where you go and gets read on a trail, on a bench, waiting for something to start.
Our collection of small books focuses across many topics diving deep in a short time.
From The Sea. One of the Picador Shorts, literary essays designed to be read in a single sitting. This one stays with the ocean as its subject and doesn't stray.
Fish Sense. Another Picador Short, this one about reading water and what lives in it. The title says everything about the kind of attention it asks for.
Living Will Say Hello. The most interior of the Picador Shorts we carry. Not a field report, but a meditation on what it means to be present in a living landscape.
Pocket Nature: Bird-Watching. Built for taking with you in nature. Covers identification, behavior, and habitat in a format small enough to actually bring outside.
Pocket Nature: Mushroom Hunting. Foraging has earned serious attention. Learn what to look for, where to find it, and how to think about what you've found.
Pocket Nature: Stargazing. Oriented toward the night sky and best read somewhere with less light than usual. A summer book.
With a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship. Essays gathered around birds as subject, cultural, ecological, literary. For when a field guide isn't quite enough.
