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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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Marsh Mud and Mummichogs: An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia"This book," writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, "is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and multitudes of other animals that find food and...
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Altamaha: A River and Its KeeperFormed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Oconee Rivers, the Altamaha is the largest free-flowing river on the East Coast and drains its third-largest watershed. It has been designated as one of the Nature Conservancy's seventy-five Last Great Places because of its unique...
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Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North CarolinaIn the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years,...
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John Bachman: Selected Writings on Science, Race, and ReligionJohn Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species....
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Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William BuchananIn Southern Timberman, Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like...
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Wild Pigs in the United States: Their History, Comparative Morphology, and Current StatusThe information in this volume relates to the country's three prevalent wild pig types: the introduced Eurasian wild boar, the feral (once domestic, now wild) hog, and hybrids of the two. The first section of the book presents a history of wild pigs in...
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The Wilderness Debate Rages on: Continuing the Great New Wilderness DebateTen years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor,...
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Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the DarkIn this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual...
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Field Folly SnowThe poems in this collection are meditations on the natural world, written from the perspective of what Li-Young Lee has aptly termed "a passionate interiority." The history and geography of the American West inspire many of the poems' investigations of the environment and the...
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The Breeding Bird Atlas of GeorgiaThis is a comprehensive historical record of all free-ranging bird species known to be breeding in Georgia around the beginning of the new millennium. The atlas profiles 182 species, from the sociable House Wren to the secretive Black Rail; from the thriving Red-shouldered Hawk...
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Virgin Forest: Meditations on History, Ecology, and CultureWith this remarkable book Eric Zencey changes the way we think about nature by changing how we think about history. "The ecological crisis is also a historical crisis," he writes. "If we are out of place in nature, we are also out of place...
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Rural HoursRural Hours (1850) is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woman. This new edition, the only printing of the full original text since 1876, restores passages excised by the author for an 1887 edition. The daughter...
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The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low CountryThe American river has a rich literary heritage, extending from Twain and Thoreau to the more recent journeys of John Graves and Jonathan Raban. Following in this great tradition, Franklin Burroughs chronicles a canoe voyage through the Carolinas, visiting his ancestral homeland and the...
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The Nature of Florida's Waterways: Including Dragonflies, Cattails, and Mangrove SnapperFlorida's waterways are host to thousands of land, air and water species. This book describes some of the things you'll "see, smell, taste, hear and feel" around Florida's waterways. It includes aquatic life most visible from bridges, shorelines, piers and boats, and celebrates the...
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Seashore and Wading Birds of FloridaAuthor: Patricia E. PopePublisher: Great Outdoors Publishing CompanyPublished: 06/01/1974Pages: 44Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 5.38h x 5.50w x 0.15dISBN: 9780820009032
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Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good LifeWhen as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The enchantment stayed with her and shimmers throughout this book as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America,...
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Aesop's Anthropology: A Multispecies ApproachAesop's Anthropology is a guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, John Hartigan Jr. asks what we can learn about culture...
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Hawk Ridge: Minnesota's Birds of PreyWas Caesar like the eagle because of his aquiline (from aquila, for "eagle" in Latin) nose, or does the eagle seem imperial because of his Caesar-like beak? Does the sharp vision of a "hawk-eyed" observer have any basis in nature? And what the heck...
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Twelve OwlsMeet the saw-whet, the tiniest of Minnesota's owls, a mere eight inches from the tip of its blunt tail to the top of its rounded head. The simplest way to find one is to listen for the scolding calls of a flock of agitated...
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Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Volume 6The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies--two subjects seldom theorized together--signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the animal," challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the...
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