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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The Grandest of Lives: Eye to Eye with WhalesThe largest creatures ever to inhabit the Earth, whales have long inspired awe in humans. But because they spend virtually all of their time beneath the ocean surface, little has been known about their lives. Now, with advances in technology, new facts and stunning...
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Scared Violent Like Horses: PoemsSelected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy's Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled...
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Blood Moon"Why would I expect to feel blameless?"Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one woman's life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even if--with the onset of physical infirmity--they sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together...
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To Make Room for the SeaThat's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page. --MAGGIE SMITHTo Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine...
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Sycamore: PoemsFINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS AWARDMeditative and richly written, this collection of poems by Kathy Fagan takes the sycamore as its inspiration--and delivers precise, luminous insights on lost love, nature, and the process of recovery."It is the season of separation & falling / Away,"...
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An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation EcologistJohn Nichols was raised by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. He enjoyed a top-notch private school education and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. At that point, he considered himself "a child blessed by the culture and...
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Ridden: Dressage from the Horse's Point of ViewWhat does the horse feel when a rider is crooked in the saddle? What is it like to go faster or slower, to round curves and travel straight, with an unbalanced load to carry? What goes through the horse's mind when he is over-flexed...
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary BirdsNaturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. Some birdwatchers will hop the red-eye to Costa Rica if a rare species is reported to be in residence. She makes the argument...
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Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of NothingAs clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, health, or the environment in cold dollars and cents, cost-benefit analysis requires it. More disturbingly, this approach is being embraced by a growing number of politicians and conservative pundits as the most...
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Illustrated Birds of Prey: Red-Tailed Hawk, American Kestral, & Peregrine Falcon: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Bird Lovers, Woodcarvers, and ArtisThe Ultimate Reference Guide for Bird Lovers, Woodcarvers, and Artists For the first time in a single volume, renowned illustrator, sculptor, woodcarver, and wildlife enthusiast Denny Rogers presents his detailed and celebrated drawings of distinguished birds of prey: the red-tailed hawk, the American kestrel,...
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Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled IslandLike so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical...
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Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in HerpetologyBased on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of the animals he has studied. In Australia, Means searches for the fiercey, reputed to be the worlds deadliest terrestrial...
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Those Terrific Turtles20 questions and answers about turtles that will convince you that they are terrific You'll know the difference between a turtle and a tortoise, and you'll know why they have shells.You'll know what sea turtles drink and how very far they travel. And you'll...
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Who Pooped in the Park? Yosemite National Park: Scats and Tracks for KidsWatch where you step! Sometimes the animals that live in Yosemite National Park are hard to find, but you can always find their poop! Come along with Emily, Michael, and their family as they find poop (scat) and footprints (tracks) and discover which animal...
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Anna's TableIn this heart-warming story, Anna gathers the treasures she and her Family find, and she collects them on her 'nature table. Esteemed children's author Eve Bunting shows us the poetry of mouse bones and dried pomegranates, a shark's tooth and an old bird's nest....
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Book of Nature Myths for ChildrenFifty-four nature myths from around the world, many from Native Americans, are collected and retold in this edition, originally published in 1902. The vocabulary is intended for young readers, with myths such "The Story of the First Hummingbird" and "Why the Aspen Leaves Tremble."Author:...
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Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural WorldAn inspiring anthology for anyone seeking guidance, hope, and strength in the midst of our current environmental crisis--featuring writings from Barbara Kingsolver and Barry Lopez The environmental "tipping point" we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they...
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Tales of a River Rat: Adventures Along the Wild MississippiIn Tales of a River Rat, famed storyteller and self-described hermit Kenny Salwey informs and entertains readers as he weaves his life story on the Mississippi River. Salwey knows the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Here he shares his love of...
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The Men of the Last FrontierIn 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for...
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The Reluctant Twitcher: A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding YearRichard Pope, author of Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush, 1900-1940 and the voyageur epic Superior Illusions, is a recently retired professor of Russian literature and culture at York University and a long-standing member of the Ontario Ornithological Club and the Ontario...
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