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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Lake Erie Stories: Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater OceanThis thoroughly researched history explores the personalities and events that have shaped Lake Erie and the towns and cities that surround it.Author: Chad FraserPublisher: Dundurn PressPublished: 05/05/2008Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.86h x 6.09w x 0.57dISBN: 9781550027822About the AuthorChad Fraser was born in Leamington,...
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DinosaursWhat were dinosaurs? Readers learn the answer to this question and more through this title, which combines a high-interest topic with nonfiction text features to make learning fun. The text covers meat-eating dinosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs, dinosaurs that flew, and ones that swam. Engaging visuals...
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Tales of an Ecotourist: What Travel to Wild Places Can Teach Us about Climate ChangeCrossing the far corners of the globe, Tales of an Ecotourist showcases travel, from the hot and humid Amazon jungle to the frozen but dry Antarctic, as a simple yet spellbinding lens to better understand the complex issue of climate change. At its core,...
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Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain EcosystemsRecent years have seen renewed interest in the fragile alpine biota. The International Year of Mountains in 2002 and numerous international programs and initiatives have contributed to this. Since nearly half of mankind depends on water supplies originating in mountain catchments, the integrity and...
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The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the GridA new edition of an evergreen back-to-nature book in the tradition of Thoreau. For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water...
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Instant Wall Art Enchanted Mushrooms: 45 Ready-To-Frame Illustrations for Your Home DécorAdd the magic and wonder of the forest to your walls with these 45 beautiful and intriguing illustrations of mushrooms in three convenient sizes to fit any space. Turn any room into an enchanting place to escape with these stunning, ready-to-frame prints that conjure...
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Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny ForestWe experience, learn about, and enjoy nature throughout our lifetimes in woods close to home. In the spirit of Walden, author Kevin Patrick spent a year connecting with White's Woods, a 500-acre tract in an Allegheny forest adjacent to his home in Indiana, Pennsylvania....
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Atlantic Salmon Treasury, 75th Anniversary Edition: An Anthology of Selections from the Atlantic Salmon Journal, 1975-2020"Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon." -- Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon FederationCelebrating 75 years of conservation, the Atlantic Salmon Treasury works as a "best of" for the influential Atlantic Salmon Journal. This...
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Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental CrisisLooking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic--and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-colored, feathered or horned serpents, giant...
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A Splendour of Succulents & CactiA stunning gift book of eighteenth-century illustrations of succulents and cacti. Succulents, especially cacti, are both the focus of serious ecological studies and the darlings of designers and style influencers. Their endearing qualities have recently given them the status of trendy "plant pets," but...
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Raptors: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, Falcons and OwlsRaptors include 42 species of hawks, eagles, kites, falcons, and owls. All illustrations are in full color. Habitat preferences, life histories, and personalities are included. Many are common species that can be found most days, such as red-tailed hawks and great-horned owls, but others...
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Wish You Were Here Walking in East YorkshireThe book includes my selections for scenic and interesting walks around East Yorkshire with the best features of our area in mind. The Yorkshire Wolds, canals, lakes, rivers and the coast are easily accessible. An Ordnance Survey map is essential and you can use...
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Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's ChacoA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure,...
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The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental DynamicsIn The Power of Nature archaeologists address the force and impact of nature relative to human knowledge, action, and volition. Case studies from around the world focusing on different levels of sociopolitical complexity--ranging from early agricultural societies to states and empires--address the ways in...
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Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and CollapseCatastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and...
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Miracle: A Birthday StoryIt is springtime at HeavenWood, the home to many farm animals that include swans, horses, chickens, ducks and quail. Every year when the earth reawakens after a cold winter, new babies are born. Unlike most years when baby bison are born, one is left...
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CatsArranged in chapters covering physical characteristics, senses, lifecycle, and behavior, Cats features a huge range of breeds from all around the world. Why do cats purr? How much can you learn about a cat's mood from the direction it flicks its tail? How do...
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The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter WhitesOn a mountain somewhere above treeline, in some of the coldest and worst winter conditions imaginable, two men lie unconscious in the snow as explosive winds batter the nearby summits. In The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites, Ty Gagne masterfully...
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Acadia National ParkMost histories of Acadia National Park chronicle the contributions of men in acquiring land, and while these contributions were critical, women also played a pivotal role. Some funded memorial paths, others facilitated George Dorr's acquiring land, and still others donated land. For people to...
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Around the World in 50 Plants 1000 Piece Puzzle: A 1000-Piece Jigsaw PuzzleTake a trip across the globe with this 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring 50 of the most stunning plants known to humans. Lucille Clerc's sumptuous illustrations provide the perfect puzzle challenge, while Jonathan Drori reveals how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history,...
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