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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On Cape CodOver one hundred color photographs capture scenes of sea and shore -- a beautiful photographic tribute to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Representing all fifteen of the Cape's towns.Loosely chronicling the arc of a summer day, and ranging from formal nature studies to breezy journalistic images,...
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On Eagle PondA life well-lived in rural New England, through the eyes of a master essayist and poet. This collection includes Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond, Here at Eagle Pond, the poem "Daylilies on the Hill," and many uncollected pieces.Here is Donald Hall on letter...
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Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry BestonThe first biography of the writer/naturalist, and one of the leading founders of the modern environmental movement, Henry Beston. In September of 1926, Henry Beston spent a two-week vacation in a Cape Cod shack he'd built high on an isolated stretch of dunes overlooking...
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Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime FarmerEssays on rural life that not only address the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet. Perrin, a transplanted New Yorker and now a "real" Vermonter, candidly admits his early mistakes while...
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Make Yourself HappyPraise for Eleni Sikelianos: Library Journal Best Books 2013: PoetryElectric as a lightning storm, wild as a first-growth forest, protean as fantasy's shape-shifters--that's Sikelianos's poetry, a real pleasure to read.--Library JournalUsing text and images, moving spikily across the page and across ideas in ever-expanding...
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StreamingSplit This Rock Recommended Poetry Books of 2014 Praise for Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty.--Joy HarjoFrom Carcass: Split skin stretched over marrowless cage, encased dry tomb, like those strewnthrough this loess reach, cradling pastever present...
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Hawaii (Traveller's Wildlife Guides): Traveller's Wildlife GuideTravellers to Hawaii go for sun, sand, and surf, but increasingly leave the beach for part of their stay to explore the islands' incredible natural attractions: stunning mountain scenery, wonderful hiking trails, glimpses of birds--many of them highly endangered--that occur nowhere else on Earth....
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Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children's FutureEnvironmentalist Lorna Gold issues a clarion call to take immediate action on climate change or risk bequeathing a stark legacy to future generations. Lorna shares her personal journey in coming to understand what 'climate change' means to her both as an activist and as...
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Tropical Surge: A History of Ambition and Disaster on the Florida ShoreAn engaging historical narrative covering many significant events in the history of south Florida, Tropical Surge includes the major developments and setbacks in the early years of Miami and Key West, as well as an in-depth look at Henry Flagler's amazing Overseas Railway. This...
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Tropical Trees of Florida and the Virgin Islands: A Guide to Identification, Characteristics and UsesCovering over 90 species and with over 500 color photographs, this book has been long awaited by both tree professionals and anyone who wants to identify a tree in the Virgin Islands and south Florida.Rare for field guides, this user-friendly book provides for all...
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Dangerous Sea Life of the West Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico: A Guide for Accident Prevention and First AidDangerous Sea Life of the West Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico is a guide for accident prevention and first aid. There are sections on: Species that bite, such as sharks, barracuda, moray eels, alligators and crocodiles, octopi, and sea lice Species that sting,...
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Second Nature: Environmental Enrichment for Captive AnimalsGrowing recognition of the complexity of animals' physical, social, and psychological lives in the wild has led both zookeepers and the zoo-going public to call for higher environmental standards for animals in captivity. Bringing together the work of animal behaviorists, zoo biologists, and psychologists,...
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Minnesota Wildlife ImpressionsIn 96 striking color photographs, Dominique Braud brings you up close and personal to Minnesota's incredible abundance of wildlife, from a crouched mountain lion drinking from a stream to trumpeter swans moving through the wintry mist of an icy pond, from a ruby-throated hummingbird...
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With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday NatureSome parks, preserves, and other natural areas serve people well; others are disappointing. Successful design and management requires knowledge of both people and environments.With People in Mind explores how to design and manage areas of everyday nature -- parks and open spaces, corporate grounds,...
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Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use PlanningLandscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of...
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Animals in Schools: Processes and Strategies in Human-Animal EducationAnimals in Schools explores important questions in the field of critical animal studies and education by close examination of a wide range of educational situations and classroom activities. How are human-animal relations expressed and discussed in school? How do teachers and students develop strategies...
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Deep'n as It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River FloodIn the spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It...
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Trees of NewportA guide to the trees of six of the estates currently open to the public and owned by the Preservation Society of Newport, Rhode Island.Author: Richard ChamplinPublisher: Applewood BooksPublished: 03/06/2006Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.51w x 0.25dISBN: 9781557099624
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The Anti-GriefWhat to do with the everything crossing one's path? Everything for and against, upside down and inside out, grief first then its dogged shadow life, which could be joy. In The Anti-Grief, Marianne Boruch challenges our conceptions of memory, age, and time, revealing the...
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So Quietly the Earth"One can only wish for more poets like David Lee."--Chowder ReviewSet in the American Southwest, So Quietly the Earth is a book of landscape meditations on philosophical, theological and environmental issues. Radically departing from his justly famous narratives of rural life, David Lee weaves...
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