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Report copyright infringementby Wyl Menmuir (Author)From the lonely heights of mountains to the womblike depths of caves, stone has always drawn us in. In The Spirit of Stone, Wyl Menmuir explores the many ways in which rock and earth form part of our identities, histories, and futures. Across Britain and Ireland, rock is everywhere beneath our feet, shaping not only our landscapes but also our imaginations and the ways we live together. Moving across these lands, Wyl Menmuir's essays combin...

The Julia Rothman Wild Collection: Ocean Anatomy, Wildlife Anatomy, Insect Anatomy

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Rothman (Author)Explore the depths of the ocean, the furthest reaches of the rainforest, and tiny, hidden habitats with this awe-inspiring collection of books from Julia Rothman. Featuring three of the most beloved titles from the Anatomy series, Ocean Anatomy, Wildlife Anatomy, and Insect Anatomy, this deluxe boxed set is an invitation to explore and celebrate the beauty of the wilderness. Julia Rothman's whimsical illustrations will take you on a tour...

Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness

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Report copyright infringementby Pete Fromm (Author)"The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that. You'll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'""Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?'"So begins Pete Fromm's seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness guarding salmon eggs. After blundering into this forbidding errand as a college lark, Fromm gradu...

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Report copyright infringementby Josh Shroyer (Author)SHOW ME A FORESTER Book Two in the "Show Me" Series You thought the fireline was wild? Wait until you step into the forest. In Show Me a Forester, Josh Shroyer trades smoke for sawdust-but the stories are just as unforgettable. From deep within the woods of the Midwest to unexpected moments of danger, laughter, and discovery, this compelling collection of true tales takes you beyond the trees and into the heart of a life lived outdoors. Wit...

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Report copyright infringementby Anelise Chen (Author)PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - In this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life--a transformation fable from an acclaimed 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree. "A marvel and a delight . . . This is a book that will stay with me forever."--Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters ONE OF CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF ...

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Report copyright infringementby Delia J. Akeley (Author)"Jungle Portraits" is a captivating firsthand account of the intrepid Delia J. Akeley's expeditions across the untamed landscapes of Africa. A pioneering figure in exploration and ethology, Akeley provides a vivid narrative of her solo journeys, moving beyond the shadow of traditional big-game hunting to offer deep insights into the continent's diverse ecosystems and indigenous cultures.The work is renowned for its detailed observations ...

Watercolor Floral Fashion Illustration: How to Paint Whimsical Flower Figures with Step-by-Step Exercises

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Nadler (Author)Step into a world where fashion meets flowers.Watercolor Floral Fashion Illustration is a beginner-friendly guide to painting expressive, whimsical fashion figures inspired by the beauty of blooms. From soft, layered peonies to cheerful daisies, delicate pansies, bright daffodils, and flowing hyacinths, each section explores a different floral theme-bringing personality and mood into every illustration.Whether you're just starting out or loo...

Beautiful Bugs: A Curious Collection of Exquisite Insects

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Report copyright infringementby Bug in the Box (Author)Discover a world of unique entomological beauty with insects from around the globe, handpicked by the premier collector and preservation artist, Bug in the Box.Beautiful Bugs presents a rare and extensive collection of artfully preserved insects, each framed and professionally photographed to create a stunning masterpiece. From shining iridescent beetles to paper-thin butterflies, these insects invite you to ponder the breathtaking intric...

Wild Plants and Survival Lore: Secrets of the Forest - Paperback

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by Mark Warren (Author)In this first volume of his Secrets of the Forest series, nature educator Mark Warren explains how to identify and use 100 wild plants as food, medicine, and craft. He also covers "primitive" survival skills, from building a shelter, to purifying water, making tools, traps, and snares. With more than 200 original hands-on activities, the book is a step-by-step guide for teachers, scout leaders, outing clubs, and wilderness programs, and anyone interested in the outdoors...

Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis: One Woman's Discovery of the Transformation of Butterflies and Insects

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Sibylla Merian (Author), Emily Gillis (Editor)Discover the trailblazing work of artist naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian in this beautifully illustrated volume on the life cycle of butterflies and moths.Maria Sibylla Merian is one of the greatest entomologists of the seventeenth century. Her work documenting the life cycle and transformation of insects yielded a wealth of groundbreaking discoveries, captured vividly in beautiful illustrations.Originally pub...

Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors - Hardcover

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by Amber Share (Author)**A New York Times Bestseller!** Based on the wildly popular Instagram account, Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America's national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors. Subpar Parks, both on the popular Instagram page and in this humorous, informative, and collectible book, combines two things that seem like they might not work togeth...

Wildflowers of Wisconsin Field Guide - Paperback

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by Stan Tekiela (Author)Learn to identify wildflowers in Wisconsin with this handy field guide, organized by color. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make wildflower identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of wildflowers that don't grow in Wisconsin. Learn about 200 of the most common and important species found in the state. They're organized by color and then by size for ease...

The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Robert MacFarlane (Author), Jackie Morris (Author) The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of nearly fifty once-common species: avocet to yellowhammer, kestrel to kingfisher, skylark to nightingale. In lyrical and incantatory essays, Macfarlane describes each bird's habits and habitats, their patterns o...

Wildflowers of Minnesota Field Guide - Paperback

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by Stan Tekiela (Author)Learn to identify wildflowers in Minnesota with this handy field guide, organized by color. With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make wildflower identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of wildflowers that don't grow in Minnesota. Learn about 200 of the most common and important species found in the state. They're organized by color and then by size for ease...

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West

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Report copyright infringementby Nate Blakeslee (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the...

Around the World in 80 Trees: (The Perfect Gift for Tree Lovers) - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Drori (Author), Lucille Clerc (Illustrator)An arboreal odyssey - NATURE One of the most quietly beautiful books of the year - DAILY MAIL Discover the secretive world of trees in Jonathan Drori's number one bestseller... Bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg as he tells the stories of 80 magnificent trees from all over the globe. In Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play ...

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

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Report copyright infringementby Robert MacFarlane (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author of Is a River Alive? and Underland, a soaring blend of cultural history, meditation, and memoir about the mysteries of the world's highest places and our unending quest for the summit "Wonderfully illuminating." --Los Angeles Times - "Fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review For those who love mountains, their wonder is beyond dispute. But for many, their allure is beyond reason; their ...

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Beston (Author)The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty" (New York Herald Tribune) A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that...

Tracing Art: Beautiful Flowers: Over 40 Floral Designs to Ink Into a Charming Artwork

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Report copyright infringementby Aurelia Davenport (Author)Author BiographyAurelia Davenport (compiler) is an illustrator with a flair for ink drawing and etching. Her subjects vary from detailed cityscapes to bold and beautiful natural landscapes. She has created a number of compilation works designed to show others how to improve their drawing skills. She lives in Paris, France. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.33 x 10.95 x 8.67 IN Publication Date: Ju...

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Davis (Author), Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by)For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital--and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises--was always a central part of his urban geography. In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a riveting account...

Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat - Paperback

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by Thomas J. Elpel (Author), Kris Reed (Author)There's food in them thar hills There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and explore the world with your taste buds. Discover new delights you will never find at the store. Connect with nature on a deeper level by meeting, greeting, and eating the plants, fungi, and creatures th...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Ackerman (Author)Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. "Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in." --The New York TimesFront JacketDiane Ackerman's lusciously written gran...

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by Rick Cech (Author)60 butterfly species are covered, both common and exotic. They include swallowtails, fritillaries, metalmarks, sulphurs, skippers, hairstreaks, blues, and more. Images, descriptive captions, and habitat index by Rick Cech (pronounced Check), a well known naturalist and butterfly expert, author of Butterflies of the East Coast (Princeton University Press, 2005). Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 3.9 IN Publication Date: July 12, 2017

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by Val Kells (Author)This FoldingGuide includes 60 marine fishes, both common and exotic, found in the Gulf of Alaska . Includes both nearshore and deeper water species; pelagics, skates, sharks, rockfishes, salmon, sole, and more. Detailed illustrations, descriptions, typical length and weight are included. Val Kells, is the award-winning illustrator of many field guides including the Field Guide to Coastal Fishes from Alaska to California (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) from which th...

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by Val Kells (Illustrator), Val Kells (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Covers cold water tidepools from Santa Barbara, CA up to the California/Oregon border. Splash zone to the subtidal zone. Illustrations and text by Kells, Val a widely recognized Marine Science Illustrator and co-author/illustrator of A Field. Guide to Coastal Fishes: from Maine to Texas, and A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: from Alaska to California, both Johns Hopkins University press publications. Val is also an avid fisherman...

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Report copyright infringementby Kiel Moe (Author)This book puts the forest first and offers a detailed immersion into forest history, forest stand dynamics, forest ecology, forest-building carbon dynamics, and possible future forest trajectories as the pretext for thinking about timber building technics.  The specificity of regional forests suggests much about the prospect of non-extractive building design: building that tends and mends its terrestrial basis rather than takes, makes, and brea...

A Guide to the Plants of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica - Paperback

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by Susan Iremonger (Author)A nature guide for both botanists and the more casual observer, identifying over 400 species of plant found in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. More than 50 percent of the plants described occur only in these mountains and nowhere else in the world. There are colour photographs and line drawings. Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.91 x 9.02 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 01, 2002

Reef Fish Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas - Paperback

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by Paul Humann (Author), Ned Deloach (Author)The 4th edition is packed with amazing marine life photographs of 683 species and enough information to keep fish watchers busy for years. It includes 89 new fish species and more than 150 new photos, representing a significant update to the 2002 3rd edition. The book includes the latest information on what is known about the taxonomy and distribution of Caribbean reef fishes. The easy-to-use, quick reference format makes it a snap to identify the ...

The Origin of Species: Deluxe Hardbound Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Darwin (Author)The Origin of Species is a seminal work of science that changed the way we understand the natural world. This deluxe hardbound edition is a collector's item featuring a detailed introduction that provides context for Darwin's groundbreaking ideas. A must-have for any science enthusiast or collector of timeless scientific literature.Evolution explained. Nature revealed. Presents the comprehensive theory of evolution and natural selection. ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Cole (Author)John Cole wrote with passion about his life, the outdoors, and the glorious rhythms of nature. In Maine, like all his essays and books, draws from his lifelong partnership and his fascination with the natural world from commercial fishing in the waters off Long Island, New York, to chasing stripers in Casco Bay, Maine, to quietly observing the shifting winds that roll across the local meadow and the annual change of seasons, a ritual he finds ...

The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne McCrory (Author)The Chilcotin's wild horses are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen by government policy as intruders competing for range land with native species and domestic cattle and, as a result, they have been subject to culls and are not officially protected.In this compelling book, wildlife biologist Wayne McCrory draws upon two decades of research to make a case for considering these wonderful creatures, called ...

Zen in the Garden: The Japanese Art of Peaceful Gardening

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Report copyright infringementby Miki Sakamoto (Author), Catherine Venner (Translator)Spring, summer, autumn, and winterThe seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really 'talk' to one another? What are the black birds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation? From rising early to walk barefoot on the gras...