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The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World
by Reg Saner  Publisher Comments Award-winning writer Reg Saner recollects, "Years ago I said that if I had a dozen lives to live, I'd live every one of them in Colorado." Saner first saw the Rocky Mountains in 1962, and since then he has never strayed far, spending his days in Boulder...
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Waist Deep in Black Water
by John Lane Publisher Comments John Lane has scaled a granite dome in the suriname rain forest and waded past cottonmouths in the heart of a Florida cypress swamp. He has shadowed crocodiles in a Yucatan mangrove thicket and paddled the rapids of North Carolina's Tuckaseegee River in...
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Messages from the Wild: An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History
by Frederick Gehlbach Publisher Comments Seeking a closer connection with nature than the manicured lawns of suburbia, naturalist Fred Gehlbach and his family built a house on the edge of a wooded ravine in Central Texas in the mid-1960s. On daily walks over the hills, creek hollows, and fields...
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Open Horizons
by Sigurd F. Olson Publisher Comments Sigurd Olson's love affair with the wilderness began in a stream near his house in Wisconsin -- he caught his first trout there with a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he recounts a...
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Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys
by Scott R. Sanders 
Publisher Comments After an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair about the ills of our age has darkened his son's world. In Hunting for Hope he discovers reasons for optimism...
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Dictionary of Biology 5TH Edition
by Elizabeth Martin Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated, this new fifth edition is the perfect guide for those studying biology, either at school or university. Containing many new entries, and with biographical entries on key scientists, it provides comprehensive coverage of biology,...
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Thoreau's classic, first published in 1854, receives refreshing treatment in this fully annotated edition....
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Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures
by Anne Raver Publisher Comments As gardening columnist for The New York Times, Anne Raver is one of our foremost authorities on making things grow. Even non-gardeners will find this book of essays a source of profound pleasure, for Raver is a writer who transcends her subject even as...
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
by David Campbell Publisher Comments The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering...
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A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II
by E. Alison Kay Publisher Comments This book brings together primary source materials on major theme in Hawaiian natural history: the geological process that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Islands' terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that...
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The Only World We've Got
by Paul Shepard Publisher Comments Philosopher and essayist Paul Shepard (1925–1996) brought to the environmental literature of the 1960s and ’70s the political passion of the time, but a passion matched with a demand for scholarly precision. This anthology from his work...
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Field Guide To the Piedmont (97 Edition)
by Michael A. Godfrey Publisher Comments The Piedmont connects an arc of urban centers from New York City to Montgomery, Alabama, and includes the national capital. Focusing on plant succession, geology, soils, climate, and the plants and animals with which we share the land, this book is an...
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Back on the Fire: Essays
by Gary Snyder
Publisher Comments Following The Practice of the Wild, this new collection of essays by Gary Snyder blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, these essays employ fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new...
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Wild Harvest in the Heartland: Ethnobotany in Missouri's Little Dixie
by Justin Nolan Book News Annotation Based on ethnobotanical field research in "Little Dixie," a seven- county region of central Missouri, Nolan (anthropology, U. of Arkansas) compares the conceptual and behavioral differences between local folk experts and novices in gathering wild...
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The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place
by Tom R Hulst Publisher Comments U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas served on the Court for 36 years. He wrote more opinions and more dissents than any other Justice. Douglas was described as an invigorating presence on the Court and possessed unusual stamina, an unyielding...
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A Very Small Farm
by William Paul Winchester Publisher Comments In the tradition of Thoreau's Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres, illustrated with 25 line drawings....
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Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest
by William Neill Synopsis Why do butterflies sometimes congregate in one spot? Can they see you? Are they eating that mud? Is it okay to hold a butterfly? Is it possible to raise them? Authoritative, easy to use, and downright beautiful, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest...
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New York State Butterflies & Moths: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist)
by James Kavanagh Publisher Comments New York Butterflies and Moths is a pocket reference guide to the butterflies and moths indigenous to this state. This durable guide is printed on laminate material and folds for convenient carrying. It is an essential identification guide in the...
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Montana Surround: Land, Water, Nature, and Place
by Phil Condon Publisher Comments Foreword by William Kittredge Phil Condon's sharply etched and thoughtful essays immerse us in the physical world even as they leap from that world into the heart and spirit of the self and our culture. The writing always starts here — along an...
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Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
by Timothy Morton Publisher Comments In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from...
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