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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Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist (complete and unabridged), including: The Mountains of California (illustrated in B&W), Stickeen: The Story oJohn Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day "patron saint of ecology". His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national...
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Slant LightIn her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a...
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Mama AmazonicaMama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria...
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Days of GraceDoris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, admired especially for poems that balance precision and control with passion and bravado. Her achievement, according to Estonian Literature, is in writing poems which are both plentiful and fragile like a crystal...balancing on the line between...
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Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social FuturesWhat would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world? As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak...
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The Little Book of Scottish BeastiesScotland is renowned for the huge range of its wildlife, which comes in all shapes and sizes. In this book Tim Kirby introduces 45 of them, from the iconic red deer and golden eagle to the Highland cow and ubiquitous midge. In addition, he...
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The Little Book of Scottish RainBleeters come and bleeters go, they never, never stay -if it's not raining nowmore rain is on the way.It's widely reported that Eskimos have over 50 words for snow. Given the equivalent ubiquity of rain in Britain's northern climes, it is not surprising that...
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BedbugFew animals elicit such a profound combination of horror, fear, and disgust as the bedbug. Uninvited, bedbugs invade our most private spaces (our beds), take away our blood, and afterwards, impudently mark their territory (our sheets). In this book, Klaus Reinhardt investigates the natural...
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The Last of the Light: About TwilightNeither day nor night, twilight has long exerted a fascination for Western artists, thinkers, and writers, while haunting the Romantics and intriguing philosophers and scientists. In The Last of the Light, Peter Davidson takes readers through our culture's long engagement with the concept of...
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SkunkSolitary, nocturnal creatures, skunks generally go about their business unnoticed. But then there's that thing they do . . . and oh, boy, when they do it, no one can ignore them. But there's far more to skunks than their stench, and with this...
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WaterAs any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In...
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OstrichOstriches may not be able to fly, but they loom large in the bird kingdom. They are the world's tallest and heaviest living birds, and they lay the largest eggs. With their long legs, ostriches are also fleet of foot, running up to 43...
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A Practical Illustrated Guide to Attracting and Feeding Backyard Birds: The Complete Book of Bird Feeders, Bird Tables, Birdbaths, Nest Boxes, and GarWhat to feed garden birds, 25 projects for birdhouses and a directory of garden birds.Author: Jen GreenPublisher: Southwater PublishingPublished: 03/07/2015Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9781780192802This title is only available via back order
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Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing WorldThe sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavor. These night-soil collectors of the planet have been...
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Edible and Medicinal Arctic Plants: An Inuit Elder's PerspectiveAs a little girl in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Aalasi learned from her mother how to identify and harvest plants. Later, a mother herself, and living in Niaqunnguuq (Apex), she continued the practice, living off the land and passing her knowledge on to the next generation....
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Nanuq: Life with Polar BearsNanuq: Life with Polar Bears features gorgeous wildlife photography of polar bears alongside firsthand accounts of experiences of living alongside the great sea bear. From close encounters with angry bears to the beauty of watching a polar bear climb an iceberg with its claws...
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OctopusAs apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. By harboring and honoring such fraught tensions, Warner has built a taut and original body of...
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Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming"Explores the beauty that can be found in even the most hopeless of situations."--Cyrus Parker, author of DROPKICKromance "Every page is a gentle reminder to take care of yourself. Lovely Seeds will help you be ok with being you."--Iain S. Thomas, author of I...
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Trout School: Lessons from a Fly-Fishing MasterFrom the wisdom of fishing legend Mo Bradley, an essential guide to fly fishing for trout in the Thompson-Okanagan.Among fly fishers, the Kamloops region in British Columbia's Thompson-Okanagan is known as one of the best places in the world for catching trout. It owes...
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Best Places to Bird in British ColumbiaIn this unique guidebook that will appeal to novice and experienced birders alike, the authors of acclaimed Birdfinding in British Columbia explore their 30 favorite birding sites in the diverse landscape of Canada's westernmost province. More detailed and more personal than the Cannings' previous...
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