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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Our Vanishing LandscapeWritten with humor and affection, and enhanced with 81 of the author's charming, historically accurate drawings, Our Vanishing Landscape takes readers on a leisurely sojourn through a bygone era. Leading us along rustic winding roads bordering fields and farmhouses, Eric Sloane captures our imaginations...
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Celestial Harvest: 300-Plus Showpieces of the Heavens for Telescope Viewing and ContemplationDiscover more than 300 celestial wonders that can be viewed with common ""backyard"" telescopes. Describes and locates sun, moon, planets, star clusters, supernova remnants, and other phenomena. 1998 edition.Author: James MullaneyPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 10/17/2012Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 10.96h x 8.40w x 0.30dISBN: 9780486425542About...
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Travels of William BartramThis is the first inexpensive, illustrated edition of one of the most delightful books of the 18th century. A major source work in American geography, anthropology, and natural history, it contains accurate and entertaining descriptions of the area of the New World now embraced...
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The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great LakesOur country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore---his newest effort---is a beautifully written and elegiac memoir of...
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Butterflies of the Great Lakes RegionThe Butterflies of the Great Lakes is the first of its kind to present an overall picture of the biology of butterflies inhabiting the Great Lakes region. The straightforward approach and clear writing style make this book very understandable to the educated lay public...
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Lake Country: A Series of JourneysOne writer's quest to locate herself within the wet, wild, and diversely human cultural heritage that has shaped herAuthor: Kathleen StockingPublisher: University of Michigan RegionalPublished: 04/27/1994Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.08w x 0.80dISBN: 9780472065165Review Citation(s): Library Journal 05/15/1994 pg. 89Publishers Weekly 04/18/1994...
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Borne of the Wind: Michigan Sand DunesSand dunes are among the most rugged and beautiful natural wonders of Michigan's shorelines. These sandy edifices-at once substantial and ephemeral-are the most extensive freshwater dunes in the world, so immense they are visible from outer space. The coastal dunes are also extraordinarily fertile,...
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Man Meets DogIn this wonderful book, the famous scientist and best-selling author, Konrad Lorenz, 'the man who talked with animals', enlightens and entertains us with his illustrated account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets. Displaying Lorenz's customary humanity and expert knowledge of animals,...
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King Solomon's RingSolomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write...
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SummerThe grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...
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Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars of North AmericaHere is the first and only guide to a subject of great interest to gardeners, small children, and lepidopterists: caterpillars, the immature form of butterflies and moths. This guide describes 120 common species of these fuzzy creatures. All the caterpillars, their adult forms and...
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Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and TechnologyThe award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature's most misunderstood insects. Are we...
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My Beloved BrontosaurusA Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff PickDinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods....
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Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water SwimmersLynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Open Water Swimming Manual provides a wealth of knowledge for all swimmers, from seasoned triathletes and expert...
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The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest CreaturesAn award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth.In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be...
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Big Miracle: Inspired by the Incredible True Story That United the WorldNow a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, John Krasinski, and Vinessa Shaw--an account of the dramatic rescue of three gray whales trapped under the ice in Alaska in 1988. Set in Cold War-era 1988, Big Miracle...
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Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural HistoryDinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas J. Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is...
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Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg RockThe inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor...
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The River of the Mother of God: And Other Essays by Aldo LeopoldHis name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist's bible. This book brings together the best of Leopold's essays.Author: Aldo LeopoldPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished: 12/15/1992Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.02h...
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Four Thousand Hooks: A True Story of Fishing and Coming of Age on the High Seas of AlaskaAs Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking. It is the summer of 1972, and the sixteen-year-old narrator is at the helm. Backtracking from the gripping prologue, Dean Adams describes how he came to be a crew member on the Grant...
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