Nature
Discover the best nature books and top titles about the natural world at our online bookstore, featuring books about nature and life, wildlife books, and nature biographies. Explore must-read and best-selling books, including naturalist books and nature short stories, perfect for every nature enthusiast.
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National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: PennsylvaniaDesigned to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union. Standard features include: Locator Map at...
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The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redouté's American MasterpieceFrançois-André Michaux (1770-1855) was a French botanist whose work on the trees of North America gave the world's first illustrated account of American trees east of the Mississippi. From 1841 to 1849 Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859), an English botanist and one of the greatest plant...
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Natural Curiosity 2nd Edition: A Resource for Educators: Considering Indigenous Perspectives in Children's Environmental InquiryThe second edition of Natural Curiosity supports a stronger basic awareness of Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The driving motivation for a second edition was the burning need, in the wake of strong and unequivocal recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation...
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Stromatolites: Ancient, Beautiful, and Earth-AlteringA colorful look at 3.5 billion years of stromatolites, peculiar structures produced by primitive life forms that lived over vast spans of geologic time. At once diverse, attractive, and sometimes puzzling, fossilized stromatolites are found worldwide in sedimentary rocks--often presenting striking patterns--where they grew...
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Collecting Fluorescent MineralsSeeing fluorescent minerals up close for the first time is an exciting experience. The colors are so pure and the glow is so seemingly unnatural, that it is hard to believe they are natural rocks. Hundreds of glowing minerals are shown, including Aragonite, Celestine,...
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Two Winters in a Tipi: My Search for the Soul of the ForestThe inspirational adventure of a man who went back to the land to show us how we can rediscover and reconnect with the wilderness around us.Author: Mark WarrenPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9780762779222Review Citation(s): Foreword 05/31/2012About...
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Where Elk Roam: Conservation And Biopolitics Of Our National Elk Herd, First EditionAn inside look at working with the majestic elk--and the controversies surrounding their conservation.Author: Bruce SmithPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 11/08/2011Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9780762770748Award: Montana Book Award - Honor BookAbout the AuthorBruce Smith, PhD, retired from the US Fish...
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The World Encyclopedia of Animals: A Reference and Identification Guide to 840 of the Most Significant Amphibians, Reptiles and MammalsPacked full of facts and detailed illustrations, this is a substantially updated family reference guide to the animals that inhabit our world. From the smallest mouse to the largest whale, this book offers a thorough introduction to an array of reptiles, amphibians and mammals,...
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the WorldHoney has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousanAuthor:...
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Animal Lessons: Discovering Your Spiritual Connection with AnimalsDevelop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person using Animal Lessons. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus--if you pay attention. They want to guide you toward the next step...
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How Biology WorksThe mysteries of life, from DNA and cells to evolution and ecology, all explained with simple words and clever graphics The simplest, most visual guide to the science of life--ever How do vaccines work? What is special about stem cells? How did we evolve...
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Florida's ShipwrecksThe Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, part of that history includes thousands of ships that have met their fates in Florida waters.Potentially more than 5,000 shipwrecks reside off Florida's 1,200 miles of coastline, with hundreds more...
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Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in AlaskaLong ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side. As Sherry Simpson...
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Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric OceansIn the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts--every bit as big and ferocious--reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost writers on the denizens of the deep, takes us back to the Mesozoic...
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Bees of California: Art, Science, and PoetryBees provide food through the simple but essential act of pollination. There are thousands of bee species in North America, but bees are dying. This book is a collaboration between student artists, scientists and writers at the University of California concerned with bee decline....
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A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of TanzaniaHome to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to chimpanzees and lions. This field guide covers all the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals...
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Birds of Western and Central AfricaThis is the only pocket guide to all the species of bird known to inhabit Western and Central Africa. Ber van Perlo introduces more than 1,500 species through 109 expertly rendered full-color plates and concise, easy-to-consult entries. The territory covered is vast--nearly 2,500 miles...
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Where the Sunrise BeginsWhere does the sunrise begin? Douglas Wood asks this question in the style that has made him an internationally bestselling author. He answers it by focusing on the world of one child, then moving to another child's world farther away, and then yet still...
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and NatureFrom the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for...
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African SilencesAfrican Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man...
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