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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For the Bees: A Handbook for Happy BeekeepingA handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond. The path to becoming a successful beekeeper begins with a deep understanding of the bees themselves. Taking an approach that is both holistic and practical, Tara Chapman, founder and operator of...
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Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the FutureThe powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence -- and how we can do better. An Australian millionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to...
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The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice HarrisonThe memoirs of cello prodigy Beatrice Harrison, the woman who brought the music of the nightingale to millions worldwide - and created the first interspecies collaborationIn 1924, Beatrice Harrison broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing with her cello. Over a...
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Bee Hotel: All You Need to Know in One Concise Manual: 30 DIY Insect Home Projects - Easy-To-Follow Instructions - Simple to MakeAs concern about the welfare of our bee populations grows, it is clear that action is needed, not only on a national level but also in on an individual basis, in our own back gardens. Nurturing your own insect population is of huge benefit...
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The Pigeon Loft Book: Racing and Breeding Loft Book With Red CoverRecord all your important bird information in "The Pigeon Loft Book." Log all information about your breeding pairs, ring numbers and races. 50 Breeding Pair Sheets including pedigree. Race and Competition Records Training Session Medical / Vacinations Records Author: Sunny Days PrintsPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished:...
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor PenguinsGavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International...
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Princess A Dog's Tale: survivor of the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake, what she may have experienced on her long journey home.This is the story of the Painter family's black Labrador "Princess" who was with them in the Rock Creek campground in the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake. She was missing and presumed to have perished in the quake. Princess wandered away from the site of the...
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Blackberry Cove Herbal: Traditional Appalachian Herbalism (Greytone)Blackberry Cove Herbal (Greytone version) is a celebration of spiraling seasons and herbs, plants, traditional wisdom, and legends found in one small Appalachian mountain cove. Inside you'll find: a month-by-month guide to common herbs found in field and forest; uncover their healing powers, botanical...
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The Transformation of America: As Government Grows Liberty Yields"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government". That observation was made by our third president, Thomas Jefferson. He also made the statement that "The course of history shows that as...
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Classic Telescopes: A Guide to Collecting, Restoring, and Using Telescopes of YesteryearClassic telescopes are of interest to amateur astronomers for a variety of reasons. There are the dedicated collectors, but there are also many amateurs who love the nostalgia they inspire. These telescopes "feel" different from any contemporary telescope and perhaps have a unique ability...
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The Mountains of CaliforniaA stirring tribute to one of America's most remote and beautiful places by one of the first modern preservationists This Penguin Classic-Muir's first book-puts a pioneering conservationist's passion for nature in high relief. With a poet's sensitivity and a naturalist's eye, Muir celebrates the...
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Yosemite Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Yosemite National ParkYosemite Wildflowers, by authors and photographers Barry and Judy Breckling, collects and describes the vast number of wildflowers found in the Yosemite area, with tools and hints on proper identification. Whether it is used as a field guide or a keepsake, this book captures...
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Wild Alchemy: An Astro-Botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of PlantsWild Alchemy is a culinary and medicinal bible that brings together traditional alchemical practices with plant lore. Alchemy is the ancient art of transforming nature for the benefit of body, mind and soul. This book is an invitation to connect back to ourselves, and...
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We are the Intelligent Designer, Designing the AnthropoceneThere are multiple studies and writings on humans impact on the planet. Each focus is important but what is addressed here is how the silos cross influence. The impact may be by design or untended consequences of seemingly unrelated factors, but when mixed become...
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TumbleweedsTumbleweeds is a poetry book to throw in your suitcase. It's about falling in love... with adventure, with nature, with yourself. How do we grow from travel? How does travel affect our connection to the natural world? And what can that connection teach us...
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The Twenty Eight: Living with the aftershocks. Stories from survivors and family members of those who perished in the 1959 Yellowstone EThis book is dedicated to the twenty-eight victims of the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake, and their families. Nineteen of those people still lie beneath the 300 foot deep slide. A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook an 8,000 foot mountain loose, splitting it in half and sending...
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The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken WorldIn The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World, a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer, Ted Levin, spent Covid rediscovering his valley and the joys of watching the season pass, day by day by day. The book is a...
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The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...and Other Amazing Cosmic FactsAn offbeat guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts. Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder knows more than most of us what a surreal place the Universe can be. In this light-hearted book she delves into some of the more arcane facts...
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The Michigan Roadside NaturalistDid you know . . . ? Michigan is seventeenth in oil production in the United States. The Great Lakes are said to be the only glacially produced structures that can be seen from the moon. Michigan was once part of a coral reef....
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The Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human CultureFrom entomologist Barrett Klein comes a buzz-worthy exploration of the many ways insects have affected human society, history, and culture Insects surround us. They fuel life on Earth through their roles as pollinators, predators, and prey, but rarely do we consider the outsize influence...
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