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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Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of PlantsUncover Darwin's most important writings about plants with this important collection featuring expert interpretations and rare illustrations. Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of his contribution to the natural sciences is...
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The Screech Owl Companion: Everything You Need to Know about These Beneficial RaptorsThis must-read for birders features a complete guide to attracting, understanding, and protecting owls. The call of an owl evokes mystery; seeing one in the wild inspires wonder. Of the top ten birds people hope to see, three are owls. Although they may be...
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Pan ... and Me: Metaphysical Adventures with the Spirit of NatureIn this latest book about my most recent metaphysical journeys, I had two ideas that I wanted to follow through on: I wanted to see and experience the great forests of Gondwanaland; and, I wanted to see and experience what existed on a higher...
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Brothers, Bears, and Beers: A Memoir of Friendships, Adventures, and MishapsBrothers, Bears, and Beers is the rollicking true story of adventures while big-game hunting in Alaska, fishing on remote Canadian lakes, canoeing in Missouri, exploring the Florida Keys, and attending college in the early 1970s. This humorous memoir covers just three years, but what...
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Nature Style: Cultivating Wellbeing at Home with PlantsIt's no secret that time spent in nature is good for us. Nature helps us thrive: it improves our health and well-being and can decrease our stress. But if you don't have the luxury of a forest at your doorstep, bringing the outside in...
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Climate Change and Original Sin: The Moral Ecology of John Milton's PoetryPrior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed humanity's responsibility for climate...
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A Wild and Sacred Call: Nature-Psyche-SpiritAn ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.Author: Will W. AdamsPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 422Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781438492063
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Lonely Planet the Joy of Exploring Gardens 1Discover 60 of the world's most spectacular gardens plus 120 travel ideas to ignite a love of outdoor spaces. Featuring the history of every botanical gem, beautiful photography and trip planning tips, this uplifting book explores the restorative effects of flora and fauna, and...
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Fantastic Fungi Wall Calendar 2024: Inspired by the Louie Schwartzberg FilmWonders of Nature. Neither plant nor animal, fungi inhabit a kingdom all their own. Inspired by the film Fantastic Fungi, here is a full year of extraordinary photographs celebrating these diverse, exquisitely beautiful, and wildly fascinating organisms. Like Clavaria sp., which looks like coral...
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Swampitude: Escapes with the CongareeSwampitude: Escapes with the Congaree explores and meditates upon the social, literary, historical, personal, ecological, psychological, and political meanings of a swamp: swamps in general, and a particular swamp, the Congaree in the center of South Carolina, which has been designated a United Nations...
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Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of EuropeDuring the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge...
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Animals of the Masai MaraOne of the greatest attractions of a trip to Kenya is the chance to see animals such as lions, cheetah, leopards, zebra, and giraffe up close and in their natural habitats. Animals of the Masai Mara is a lavish photographic guide that explores the...
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One Week In August: Stories From Search and Rescue in British ColumbiaOne Week in August: Stories from Search and Rescue in British Columbia provides insights into how volunteer search and rescue groups, volunteer members, and agencies respond to locate lost persons and rescue those hurt or stranded.Based on actual incidents and responses that took place...
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Drawing Botany Home: A Rooted LifeA beautifully illustrated natural history memoir that reminds the reader that re-storying our relationship with the plants of home can be our first step in restoring the world. In a world made precarious by human mobility, all of us can learn from those who...
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Strands of Hope: How to Grieve the Loss of a HorseHave you or someone you care about recently lost a beloved horse? Are you struggling with how to move forward with a gaping hole in your heart and an empty stall in the barn? Does riding suddenly seem less appealing? In Strands of Hope:...
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The Country Set: A Celebration of Our Best-Loved WildlifeA delightful gift book filled with the adorable animal paintings of Hannah Dale, creator of the immensely popular Wrendale Designs. This charming book, first published in 2014 but now reissued in a larger size to give the author's beautiful images even more chance to...
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean WorksAll of Earth's oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of...
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Foraging Florida: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible and Medicinal Wild Foods in FloridaPaleo-Indians lived more than 14,000 years ago in the land we now call Florida, and later came tribes of indigenous people known as the Ais, Calusa, Mayaimi, Tequesta, Timucua, and others. Still later came the Seminole and Miccosukee. These people were hunter-fisher-gatherers who lived...
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Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her PeopleEcovillage Living is a guide to everything you've always wanted to know about ecovillages, from the tools to make them happen to the people behind them. If you have ever dreamed of natural housing, water treatment systems, solar panels, composting toilets . . ....
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The Temple at the End of the Universe: A Search for Spirituality in the AnthropoceneA journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith. Our species is leaving scars on the earth that will last for millennia. How has religious ideology helped bring humanity to the brink...
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