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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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Legends of the Common StreamFor over twenty years, John Hanson Mitchell has visited Beaver Brook almost daily. This small, slow-flowing Massachusetts stream was of vital importance for early settlers and an indispensable resource for the Native peoples who lived and fished along its shores, but it has been...
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Death of a WhaleA fascinating narrative about a historic dispute involving cultural entitlement, the sovereignty of whales, and international whaling agreements. This compelling, in-depth account documents how Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fights to defend and protect whales and other aquatic marine mammals from human predators who hunt...
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Abundance: Nature in RecoveryIn this new collection of literary essays, Karen Lloyd explores abundance and loss in the natural world relating compelling stories of restoration, renewal and rewilding and revealing how the people working on the front line of conservation are challenging the inevitability of biodiversity loss....
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International Environmental Law Compliance in Context: Mechanisms and Case StudiesThis book explores how compliance with international environmental law has changed over time, offering a critical analysis of its current shifting patterns. Beginning with an overview of compliance with international environmental law, the book goes on to explore in detail: compliance in the different...
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Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate ChangeFracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in the US also directly harm the health and livelihoods of people in front-line communities, who are disproportionately poor and...
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National Parks Color By Number Coloring Book For Adults: A Beautiful Travel Coloring Book Of Famous National Parks, Relaxing Nature And Incredible LanBeautiful Color By Number Mosaic National Park pictures that are fun to color Enjoy hours of therapeutic coloring with 20 different detailed US National Parks that you will love If you're looking for a soothing way to relieve stress and lower anxiety, then this...
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Beautiful Butterflies 2021 Wall CalendarThis Beautiful Butterflies 2021 Calendar is the Perfect Gift Idea for Butterfly Lovers Everywhere All-in-one ENGLISH, SPANISH and FRENCH - US, UK, CA Holidays Give this delightful and memorable gift for upcoming: Appreciation for Butterfly LoversBirthday ChristmasYankee SwapSecret Santa Stocking Fillers / Stuffers for...
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Autumn Adult Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book With Fall Harvest Coloring Pages-Leaves, Pumpkins, Food, Fall Flowers And MoreAutumn Coloring Book For Adult This book will transform as you color the designs with your own creative coloring ideas and variations of color. For some designs you might choose crimson red, deep orange and other Earth tones, with a blue sky in the...
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The Tree Dispensary: The Uses, History, and Herbalism of Native European TreesAn exploration of the history, folklore and medicinal uses of thirty Native European trees. In this beautifully illustrated book, which uses the author's own photographs, Christina Stapley provides a thorough and deep appreciation of trees as she has experienced them through everyday life, as...
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Tenacious of Life: The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John BachmanDaniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After completing The Birds of America (1826-38),...
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At Home in the World: California Women and the Postwar Environmental MovementFrom the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few garnered attention or invitations to join the Sierra Club, the organization created in 1892 to preserve wilderness. Over the next sixty years the Sierra...
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Draining the Swamp, Southern Style: North Carolina and Florida Wetlands and the Wright Report Scandal, 1896-1926In 1912, a Congressional committee met to investigate allegations that the Secretary of Agriculture had suppressed a report by J. O. Wright on drainage in the Florida Everglades. The following seven months of committee hearings uncovered a veritable horror-show of corruption, self-dealing, misuse of...
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The Conestoga River: A HistoryThe Conestoga River meanders for sixty miles through the fertile farmlands of Lancaster County. From early Native American inhabitants to the European settlers who made the Conestoga Valley their home, the river has provided sustenance and transportation for generations. Victorian-era resorts and hotels were...
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Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic ImperativeThis book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. Ecocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the...
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Something Hidden in the Ranges: The Secret Life of Mountain EcosystemsWe all see the largest features of mountain ecosystems--the impressively rugged peaks, the clear blue lakes, and the extensive forests--but each of these readily visible features depends on largely invisible creatures and flows of material and energy. Something Hidden in the Ranges draws on...
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Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and JapanWith Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled...
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The Population Ecology and Conservation of Charadrius PloversThe 40 or so species of beach-loving plovers (genus Charadrius) comprise a diverse group of shorebirds found around the world. Most of these species are challenged by changing climates and other human-related development activities, yet they provide key insights into basic ecological and evolutionary...
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OYO, The Beautiful River: An environmental narrative in two partsOYO, The Beautiful River is environmental literature, a book-length sequence of lyric narratives written from a journey down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois, in a fifteen-foot rowing dory. It explores the vulnerability of identity and relationships within this oftentimes polluted...
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East African Cowry Shells: A Field GuideThis book, Cowries of East Africa, by Tim O'Hare and Shaun Metcalfe, is intended to be a field guide. The book details over 70 species and subspecies of cowry shells found on the East African coastlines of Kenya and Tanzania and the islands of...
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AshAsh is a beautifully illustrated account of the botanical and cultural faces of the ash tree. The book maps the tree's evolution and geographical spread across the entire Northern Hemisphere over the last 44 million years, and describes the 43 species that grace the...
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