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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Birds at Your Feeder: A Guide to Winter Birds of the Great PlainsA guide to nature's favourite visitors, this book includes paintings of birds in flight, perched and at feeders. The text provides common and scientific names for 50 species - from the great honed owl to the red-breasted nuthatch.Author: Dana Gardner, Nancy OvercottPublisher: University of...
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Birder's Guide to the Chicago RegionIdentifying more than 250 top sites for birding within a 65-mile radius from downtown Chicago, this useful guide provides maps, directions, and other information essential for discovering the birds of the area in their natural habitats. The most thorough guide of its kind, it...
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The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost LandscapeUnder the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County's Big Marsh provided a...
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For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist's JourneyRivers and streams supply our water and capture our imaginations. We seek the more pristine ones to fish or paddle, to hike along or simply sit and watch. But what is it we are seeing? What is essential about streams and rivers for us...
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The Rocky Mountain Wild Foods Cookbook"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press""The Rocky Mountain Wild Foods Cookbook" contains recipes and preparation methods for 28 varieties of wild plants easily found in the Rocky Mountains and the West.Author: Darcy WilliamsonPublisher: Caxton PressPublished: 03/01/1995Pages: 251Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize:...
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The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis HydeThoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals. With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged...
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Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary MajkaWinner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice AwardAuthentic. Original. Inimitable. Mary Majka was one of Canada's great pioneering environmentalists. She was best known as a television host, a conservationist, and a driving force behind the internationally acclaimed Marys Point Western Hemispheric...
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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local ResilienceWe live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most people don't want to...
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Learning with Nature: A How-To Guide to Inspiring Children Through Outdoor Games and ActivitiesLearning with Nature is full of fun activities from the Forest School. The games will get your children outdoors to explore, have fun, make things and learn about nature and help them grow up happy and healthy. Suitable for groups of children aged between...
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Sandia: Seasons of a MountainThis portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer. Fascinated by Sandia, by the light of its dawns and sunsets, by its seasons, by the...
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Mountain Time: A Yellowstone MemoirMountain Time, a thoughtful and often moving work, is not only about Yellowstone as a superb sample of American wildness, . . . but also about a man named Paul Schullery and his relationship to it. This fact gives the book much richness and...
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National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A HistoryA decade has passed since the publication of the first edition of National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History. Polly Welts Kaufman thought it time to revisit the subject of activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and to learn how far...
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The River in Winter: New and Selected EssaysThis book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their home-made house is written in the hand-plastered floor, patched...
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Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in MexicoIn Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the...
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The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning WorldIn The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it's a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds ranging high mountain pastures, a...
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Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim CrowOn August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Florida, and west to the Mississippi River. When the dust settled, residents of the old port city were devastated by the death...
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My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the CarolinasThree months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventaz n, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle...
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My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington CarverGeorge Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely--and reductively--known as the...
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Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and AshoreAt once sobering and thrilling, this illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard. A prime target for the fierce storms that develop in the Atlantic, the region is especially vulnerable...
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Lizards and Crocodilians of the SoutheastThis heavily illustrated, lively, and accessible guide covers twenty native and forty-one introduced species of lizards and crocodilians found in the Southeast. Introductory chapters cover the biodiversity of lizards and crocodilians both regionally and globally and discuss lizard and crocodilian life cycles, morphology, habitats,...
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