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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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericaWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single...
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Out of the Lyme Light and Into the Sunlight: Birding as Therapy for the Chronically IllOut of the Lyme Light and into the Sunlight tells of the journey undertaken by the author, Bob Bell, after developing a bizarre set of increasingly debilitating symptoms, eventually leading to a diagnosis of Lyme disease. He describes his experiences, including the various allopathic...
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America's Great Mountain Trails: 100 Highcountry Hikes of a LifetimeWinner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award, this book is a hiker's inspirational bucket list embodied in a lavishly illustrated celebration of our nation's one hundred best mountain trails. America's mountain trails lure us to exquisite heights, from the Atlantic Coast in Maine...
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of IslamA fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer FINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam--the origins and evolution of the...
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest AvalancheKrist does wonders . . . He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjures forth the avalanche.--The New York Times In February 1910, a monstrous, record-breaking blizzard hit the Northwest. Nowhere...
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The Handbook of Nature StudyA matchless handbook for decades, this classic work has been the natural history bible for countless teachers and others who seek information about their environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common plants and animals, and even less about...
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A Field Guide to the Birds of New ZealandNew Zealand is commonly described as "the land of birds." Now, there is an easy-to-use guide for all those interested in this country's remarkable bird population. A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand contains over 600 stunning photographs of the more than...
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The New Neotropical CompanionThe acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics--now fully updated and expanded The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book that has helped thousands of people to understand the complex ecology and natural...
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The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North AmericaCovering 300 of the most common birds in all of the United States and Canada, The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of North America is loaded with color photographs, drawings showing typical behaviors, range maps, an easy-to-use checklist, fun facts, and authoritative information about...
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Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and ShrubsThese handy, accurate, and easily used keys to fruit and twig identification are the only guides of their sort with photographs -- over 350 of them, of nearly every twig and fruit described -- making them especially valuable to the novice.The fruit key (dealing...
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Soul of NowhereIncludes black-and-white photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the authorIn Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he is drawn to it. An intrepid adventurer, Childs tracks a broad territory: the Sierra Madre...
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Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet WhalingA revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for these creatures' salvation. The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of...
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The Trees in My ForestWinner of the New England Book Award Best Nonfiction Award and the Franklin Fairbanks Award of the Fairbanks Museum In a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd Heinrich takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the hidden life...
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Dino Dash: A Jurassic PuzzleUNIQUE PUZZLE EXPERIENCE: Each piece takes the shape of an entire dinosaur, and no two shapes are alike! Plus they don't lock together like regular jigsaw pieces do for a whole new puzzling experience. SERIES: The fourth in Laurence King's line of animal-themed cluster...
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PeacocksThere's almost nothing more recognizable in the bird world than a male peacock's ostentatious tail, or train. When the blue and green feathers are lifted, fanned out, and shaken, their used to draw in mates. Beginning readers will be in awe of the peacocks...
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The End of MichelangeloReading the poetry of Dan Gerber, we are summoned to this larger truth: Though we live in fraught times, on the tipping point of human self-destruction, we and our planet are still very much alive.In one of his last sonnets, nearly five hundred years...
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Wolves, Coyotes & Foxes: Symbols of the WildCelebrate the kings of the canine world with this collection of photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela. Their beauty strikes us. Their mystique enchants us. Wolves, coyotes, and foxes are beloved, appreciated, and misunderstood. A sighting in nature is...
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Animal PhysiologyComprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology...
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Foraging for Edible Wild Plants: How to Identify, Cook and Enjoy ThemForaging for Edible Wild Plants is a practical and attractive guide to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us. It will appeal to gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and to anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds...
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Basking SharkA huge fish swims slowly with its big mouth open wide. The basking shark is collecting tiny plankton to eat. Although it is the second-biggest shark in the world, this gentle giant eats some of the smallest creatures in the sea. Dive in to...
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