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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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Birds of the Lake Erie RegionThis latest collaboration of Carolyn V. Platt and Gary Meszaros is a beautifully photographed book that explores Lake Erie and its effects on the birds that make this region their home. Birds of the Lake Erie Region observes a year of weather changes and...
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The Western San Juan Mountains: Their Geology, Ecology and Human HistoryThe San Juan Skyway winds its way up, over, and through canyons, mesas, plateaus, mountains, plains, and valleys. The sheer variety of landforms makes the Skyway a veritable classroom for the amateur naturalist and historian.The most complete work published on the natural history of...
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Out of the Sea, Today's Chincoteague PonyOut of the Sea, Today's Chincoteague Pony conveys the indomitable spirit and strength for survival that defines the Chincoteague ponies. From their initial arrival on the island to their reign as the island's leading attraction, Lois Szymanski details their history to today, where the...
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The Assateague PoniesPonies have lived on Assateague Island for hundreds of years, but have been studied scientifically only since 1975. In 1965, twenty-one ponies were released into the northern portion of Assateague, within the Assateague Island National Seashore, where their numbers have risen gradually and the...
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DragonfliesDragonflies are increasing in popularity because they are colourful and fascinating to watch in flight over water. Their conservation in the British countryside has become a matter of concern. This book provides an introduction for those who wish to learn more about them, and...
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Gila: The Life and Death of an American RiverFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length,...
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The Travails of Two Woodpeckers: Ivory-Bills & ImperialsNearly two feet long with striking black, white, and red plumage, the Ivory-billed and Imperial Woodpeckers were two of the most impressive woodpeckers in the world. Both species were known to be in serious decline by the end of the nineteenth century and are...
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Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital TechnologiesWhile digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the...
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Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in EgyptThe waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices...
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Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, NatureMusic, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the SoutheastVisit any pond on a summer day and the air will be alive with dragonflies and damselflies--shimmering aerobatic daredevils that dart above the water and even into nearby fields and woodlands. Organized for easy use in the field, this abundantly illustrated guide, with more...
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Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United StatesWritten by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an accessible, fully illustrated guide to the species that frequent the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. No one who encounters a sea turtle soon forgets it. The...
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Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin: With Emphasis on the Savannah River SiteFeaturing more than 200 color photographs of species and habitats, this is the first comprehensive assessment of the fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin (MSRB). Located along the Georgia-South Carolina border, the MSRB comprises the portion of the Savannah River drainage area located...
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The State Botanical Garden of GeorgiaThese 145 spectacular color photographs celebrate nature's cycles in a splendid and diverse southern garden. Each month for more than six years, Carol and Hugh Nourse have explored the paths and collections of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens, capturing the kaleidoscope...
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Trees of Southeastern United StatesThis popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly pine or red mulberry to the rare Pinckneya (fever-tree) or goat willow. The guide treats more than 300 species--every one known...
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Inward MorningWhen first published in 1958, The Inward Morning was ahead of its time. Boldly original, it blended East and West, nature and culture, the personal and the universal. The critical establishment, confounded, largely ignored the work. Readers, however, embraced Bugbee's lyrical philosophy of wilderness....
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Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and AlabamaThis complete and authoritative work provides identification keys, full descriptions, and line drawings that make it possible to identify 383 native and naturalized species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines found in northern Florida and adjacent Georgia and Alabama. Casual observers of the lower...
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Deep Enough for IvorybillsDeep Enough for Ivorybills is a powerful, thoughtful collection of autobiographical writings about James Kilgo's hunting and fishing excursions in the woods, fields, and swamps of South Carolina and Georgia. Portraying a world both visceral and majestic, Deep Enough for Ivorybills establishes Kilgo not...
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Handbook of Shells: Sea Shells of the Gulf and Atlantic CoastsTake this easy-to-tote guide along to the beach to help identify your finds among its 120 shells and assortment of other seashore creatures. Each shell is illustrated with a line drawing.Author: Lula SiekmanPublisher: Great Outdoors Publishing CompanyPublished: 06/01/1981Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.61h x...
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Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River DeltaColorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Among the Swamp People is the story of author Watt Key's discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. "The swamp" consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north...
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