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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Alaska Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesThis beautifully illustrated folding pocket guide to birds of the Last Frontier State will allow you to identify and get to know 140 of Alaska's most common and familiar species. It is laminated for durability and includes an ecoregion map showing over 20 bird-viewing...
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San Francisco Birds: An Introduction to Familiar SpeciesA bird-spotting challenge in San Francisco identified an impressive 149 species in just 24 hours! The rich and varied habitats of the San Francisco region are the permanent or temporary home of 444 species of birds. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar...
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New Jersey Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesThis is the long, catalog/marketing description of the product.The home of the World Series of Birding, New Jersey is one of the best places in the US to learn about and experience birds. The Garden State is nestled along the Atlantic Flyway, so coastal...
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North Carolina Trees & Wildflowers: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar PlantsConsidered the most ecologically unique state in the US Southeast, North Carolina remarkably hosts boreal, temperate, and sub-tropical habitats. Among these are montane forests, old fields, streams, woodlands, hardwood forests, coastal beaches, and rivers, to name but a few. The state flower is the...
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Florida Wildlife: An Introduction to Familiar SpeciesThe vast peninsula that is Florida features a remarkable assemblage of unique ecoregions, including mangrove swamps, salt marshes, coastal plains, oak forests, pine forests, prairies, and of course the massive Everglades. Animal life abounds in Florida, where iconic species likeWest Indian Manatees, Black Bears,...
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Pennsylvania Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar SpeciesOver 450 species of birds have been observed in Pennsylvania, making the Keystone State a terrific place to experience and learn about birds. Over half of the state is covered in forest, most of it being rich hardwood where Scarlet Tanagers and Wood Thrushes...
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Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Wilderness Act--the landmark piece of legislation to set aside and protect pristine parts of the American landscape. This anniversary edition of Wilderness Ethics should help put the many issues surrounding wilderness in focus.Author: Guy...
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Backyard Farming: Raising PigsYour Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here Join the Backyard Farming Movement and Turn Your Home into a Homestead Pigs are easily among the smartest and sweetest animals you can include on your farm or homestead. Occasionally challenging and always rewarding, pigs are intelligent animals...
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The Grandest of Lives: Eye to Eye with WhalesThe largest creatures ever to inhabit the Earth, whales have long inspired awe in humans. But because they spend virtually all of their time beneath the ocean surface, little has been known about their lives. Now, with advances in technology, new facts and stunning...
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Scared Violent Like Horses: PoemsSelected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy's Scared Violent Like Horses is a deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled...
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Blood Moon"Why would I expect to feel blameless?"Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one woman's life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even if--with the onset of physical infirmity--they sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together...
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To Make Room for the SeaThat's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page. --MAGGIE SMITHTo Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine...
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Sycamore: PoemsFINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS AWARDMeditative and richly written, this collection of poems by Kathy Fagan takes the sycamore as its inspiration--and delivers precise, luminous insights on lost love, nature, and the process of recovery."It is the season of separation & falling / Away,"...
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An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation EcologistJohn Nichols was raised by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. He enjoyed a top-notch private school education and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. At that point, he considered himself "a child blessed by the culture and...
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Ridden: Dressage from the Horse's Point of ViewWhat does the horse feel when a rider is crooked in the saddle? What is it like to go faster or slower, to round curves and travel straight, with an unbalanced load to carry? What goes through the horse's mind when he is over-flexed...
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Rare Encounters with Ordinary BirdsNaturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. Some birdwatchers will hop the red-eye to Costa Rica if a rare species is reported to be in residence. She makes the argument...
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Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of NothingAs clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, health, or the environment in cold dollars and cents, cost-benefit analysis requires it. More disturbingly, this approach is being embraced by a growing number of politicians and conservative pundits as the most...
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Illustrated Birds of Prey: Red-Tailed Hawk, American Kestral, & Peregrine Falcon: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Bird Lovers, Woodcarvers, and ArtisThe Ultimate Reference Guide for Bird Lovers, Woodcarvers, and Artists For the first time in a single volume, renowned illustrator, sculptor, woodcarver, and wildlife enthusiast Denny Rogers presents his detailed and celebrated drawings of distinguished birds of prey: the red-tailed hawk, the American kestrel,...
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Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled IslandLike so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical...
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Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in HerpetologyBased on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of the animals he has studied. In Australia, Means searches for the fiercey, reputed to be the worlds deadliest terrestrial...
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