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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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Maryland Day Hikes: A Folding Guide to Easy and Accessible TrailsMaryland Day Hikes is a, laminated guide that is packed full of planning tips, maps, and what to expect at 20 family-friendly, wheelchair-accessible hiking trails. Can you bring your dog? Are there accessible facilities? What are the trail surfaces? Directions, parking access, and trail...
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The Ancient Woods of South-East WalesThe ancient woods of south-east Wales are treasures of a rich landscape. Describing the geology, history and flora of many individual woods, The Ancient Woods of South-East Wales recounts how these special places have altered or been altered and how they may change in...
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Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved YosemiteThe dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite--from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir--iconic environmentalist, writer,...
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How to Keep Your Plants Alive: 50 Plants That Are Impossible to KillIf you're horticulturally challenged, then this book's for you. Learn to be the best plant parent you can be with How to Keep Your Plants Alive, featuring over 50 houseplants that are exceptionally hard to kill.We've all been there: your beloved plant is looking...
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Big Bat Year: A Conservation StoryDuring his itinerary covering just shy of 30 countries, Nils Bouillard was lucky enough to encounter no fewer than 400 species of bats. But beyond the impressive list, The Big Bat Year is a passionate tale about the people who are protecting bats all...
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The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European FisheriesThis definitive environmental history of medieval fish and fisheries provides a comprehensive examination of European engagement with aquatic systems between c. 500 and 1500 CE. Using textual, zooarchaeological, and natural records, Richard C. Hoffmann's unique study spans marine and freshwater fisheries across western Christendom,...
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The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth CenturyThis highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that...
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Enjoying Big Bend National Park: A Friendly Guide to Adventures for Everyone Volume 41"After you give Enjoying Big Bend National Park to the one you love, they are going to want to go there on vacation. . . . The Clarks provide valuable, practical information . . . this book will help turn every excursion into a...
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Backwater Mystic Blues"Between the voids at the deepest and farthest reaches of our science, there is this eternal now..."In this second suite of intimate essays, Lloyd Ratzlaff summons the secret hiding spots, makeshift rafts, and uncomplicated childhood joys that lay the foundations for adult philosophy. In...
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Little Fish Swim with Scuba JackThe Adventures of Scuba Jack is at it again with another fun adventure! By using his imagination, Scuba Jack takes Little Fish to meet some fascinating sea creatures. Or does he? Everyone knows that bath time can be so much fun! Our story has...
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MonsoonsSeason - Monsoons The book has the following authors - Juanna John Ali Hochfelder Maryann Holmes Daniel Lamboy John Haugh Justine Defever Tiffany Washington Frederick Livingston Tova Greene Sierra Madden Mahnour javed Ruth Towne Kory Vance Steven Herrera Gavin Bourke Crystal Barker Saheb Sk...
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Tout sur les animauxLes animaux sont partout sur terre. Cela signifie que si nous devions voyager dans tous les pays et continents, nous trouverions un animal vivant là-bas. Certains animaux vivent dans un climat chaud et d'autres dans un climat froid. Les animaux existent depuis des éternités....
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Decolonising AnimalsThe lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue to be ignored, discounted, written over and destroyed by anthropocentric practices and endeavours. Within the vestiges of colonialism, this silence and occlusion...
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Tree Crops: A Permanent AgricultureThis is an excellent reference for growing high-yield fruit-and nut-bearing trees.A list of the most important books ever written about sustainable agriculture (and human health) would include Tree Crops by J. Russell Smith.Author: J. Russell SmithPublisher: Must Have BooksPublished: 03/08/2023Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize:...
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The Peach TreeLife is full of contrast and contradiction. There is nothing so sweet and juicy as a tree-ripened peach, yet the shame of a peach tree switch on bare young legs can be cruel and damaging. In the title poem, "The Peach Tree", Spier shows...
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Soul of the Wild: Book II, The Wisdom of ElephantsWith her history as an animal behavior researcher and wildlife veterinarian, Barbara Shor has experience and an appreciation of animals in many ways. But now, as an animal communicator, she brings a whole new depth of understanding to the table.In this book Barbara shares...
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Bear Man of Admiralty Island: A Biography of Allen E. HasselborgBear Man of Admiralty Island is the life story of a rugged loner and self-taught naturalist who came to southeastern Alaska in 1901 to seek his fortune in the awe-inspiring wilderness but found his destiny instead. In the process, this sturdy Midwesterner learned the...
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Lone Star Wildflowers: A Guide to Texas Flowering PlantsEach spring throughout the celebrated Hill Country and well beyond, locals and visitors revel in the palettes and variety of Texas wildflowers. From the Panhandle canyonlands to the islands of South Texas, from the eastern Pineywoods to the farthest reaches of the arid Trans-Pecos,...
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Yucatan PeninsulaDuring the course of his career, photographer C. C. Lockwood has recorded the abundant natural beauty of Louisiana -- particularly the Atchafalaya Basin -- and the rest of the Gulf Coast, from Florida to Texas. In this book Lockwood travels to the other side...
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Birds of MongoliaMongolia is a huge, landlocked central Asian country encompassing a wide range of habitats, including forests, vast treeless plains, the Altai Mountains, and, of course, the Gobi Desert. With an avian population that reflects this diverse landscape, the country is rapidly becoming a popular...
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