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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Gold Panning Colorado: A Guide to the State's Best Sites for GoldGold Panning Colorado is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in Colorado. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Colorado. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS...
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Speaking of Bears: The Bear Crisis and a Tale of Rewilding from Yosemite, Sequoia, and Other National ParksThe history, compiled from interviews with over 100 individuals, of how Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, all in California's Sierra Nevada, created a human-bear problem so bad that there were eventually over 2,000 incidents in a single year. Speaking of Bears is...
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Backyard WildlifeFalcon Pocket Guide: Backyard Wildlife is a field guide to the most common and sought-after species you can find in your very own backyard. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animal's prominent physical attributes and natural habitat make it easy to identify...
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Unicoi Unity: A Natural History of the Unicoi and Snowbird Mountains and Their Plants, Fungi, and AnimalsThe Unicoi Mountains straddle the Tennessee-North Carolina state line just south of the Great Smoky Mountains, separated from the latter mountains only by the Little Tennessee River. Extending from the Little Tennessee River southward to the Hiwassee River, the Unicois are a southern segment...
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My Farmhouse Journal: Memories and RecipesWhen Sherry Phillips Mitchell and her sister, Debbie, were transplanted to a farm in Buford, Ohio, in 1962, it changed the course of Sherry's life forever. In a charming collection, Sherry shares farmhouse remembrances and comforting recipes that retell of not only life's greatest...
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El origen de las especiesLa teor a de Darwin de la evoluci n se basa en hechos clave y e inferencias extra das de los mismos, que el bi logo Ernst Mayr resumi como sigue: Cada especie es suficientemente f rtil para que si sobreviven todos los descendientes...
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Spirit Bear: Encounters with the White Bear of the Western RainforestA classic work of nature and wildlife, Spirit Bear is the captivating story of wilderness guide and naturalist Charles Russell's quest to understand the rare spirit bear of British Columbia's Princess Royal Island -- now updated and reissued with a new design and an...
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Wild Turkey Harvest Management: Biology, Strategies, and TechniquesThe book's objective was to synthesize what is known about the effects of hunting on wild turkey populations, and provide models for regulating harvest that provide ample hunting opportunity with minimal risk of overharvest. The book also reviews the biology of the species and...
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The Sustainable Living Book For Beginners: A Self Sufficiency Starter or How To Be A Self Reliant Homesteader & Have a Simple Life, Living Off GridFree Gift with Every Purchase All purchasers are now entitled to download a brand new bonus, The Backyard Farm Book of Organic Gardening - absolutely FREE (See back of book for details)If you've spent any time watching the TV news lately, chances are you've...
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200-Year-Old Bowhead Whales!Bowhead whales are amazing creatures that often live lives longer than humans! These whales live in Arctic waters near the North Pole, smashing through thick ice to reach the surface to breathe. Using their baleen, these large mammals feed on tiny animals swimming in...
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Bristlecone Pines Are Ancient!One of the oldest trees on our planet is named Methuselah. It's almost 5,000 years old--and it's a bristlecone pine tree. This book draws readers into the ancient world through the life cycle of the bristlecone pine tree. Its main features, habitat, and more...
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Diary of a NobodyDiary of a Nobody is near perfect as a piece of English comedy, its humor gentle and subtle, its depiction of character, class, time and location flawless. It fixes forever the late-Victorian world of the respectable Lower Middle Class, populated by clerks, petty merchants...
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This House, Once"Tender, comforting, and complex." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Drawn with exquisite precision and quiet dashes of humor." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A lovely, ruminative selection." --School Library Journal (starred review) "A blueprint for mindfulness and gratitude for the homes in which we...live." --The New...
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Plant Folklore: 120 StoriesPlants are all around us, and while we often reflect on the majesty of a great forest or the beauty of our gardens, how often do we notice the understated and varied wildflowers in the meadows, in the swamps, in the woods, and even...
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Nature MadeNature gives us many useful things. Sunlight, rocks, trees, plants, and sand are resources. This book introduces students to the concept of natural resources. With images that are easy to identify and clear, simple sentence structures, this science reader simplifies scientific concepts for young...
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The Nature Watch Collection: Book OneThe publisher is William R. Parks - www.wrparks.com This B & W paperback edition is available for $7.95. The color paperback edition is available for $32.95. The Kindle eBook edition is available in color for $2.99. For over twenty years Gerry Rising has been...
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The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar ExplorationFrom Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this...
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Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from UndergroundCultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land,...
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Weather in Texas: The Essential HandbookOnly in Texas could a snowstorm pelt the Panhandle at the very moment abrasive dust is scouring the Permian Basin while searing heat is wilting the Winter Garden region in the south. The state's large size and central location within North America subject it...
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Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in BoliviaConflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. "Resource nationalism"--the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the "nation"--has often united otherwise disparate groups, including mineworkers, urban workers, students, war...
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