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Last Child in Woods Rev Edition 2008
by Richard Louv  Publisher Comments Richard Louv was the first to identify a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite articulate: nature-deficit disorder. His book Last Child in the Woodscreated a national conversation about the disconnection between children and nature, and his...
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The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments Writing of hermits, cowboys, changing seasons, and the wind, Ehrlich draws us into her personal relationship with this "planet of Wyoming" she has come to call home. She captures the incredible beauty and the demanding harshness of natural forces in...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics)
by Annie Dillard 
Publisher Comments Chapter 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest Chapter 2. Seeing Chapter 3. Winter Chapter 4. The Fixed Chapter 5. Untying the Knot Chapter 6. The Present Chapter 7. Spring Chapter 8. Intricacy Chapter 9. Flood Chapter 10. Fecundity Chapter 11. Stalking Chapter 12....
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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
by Craig Childs Publisher Comments From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks...
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Refuge (91 Edition)
by terry Tempest Williams
Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a...
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My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell
Powells.com Staff Pick This autobiographical work takes place on the island of Corfu when Durrell was a boy. He was pretty much a wild English boy who ended up with a lot of time on his hands, a lot of rugged land to explore, and as a result, a lot of critter friends the...
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Neotropical Companion : an Introduction To the Animals, Plants and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, Revised and Expanded (2ND 97 Edition)
by John Kricher Publisher Comments A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one...
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My Family & Other Animals
by Gerald Durrell Synopsis Soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy with his "family and other animals, " this book evocatively chronicles his five-year sojourn on the Greek island. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his eccentric family and...
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Two Little Savages
by Ernest T Seton Publisher Comments Adventures of two boys living as Indians; explaining Indian ways, woodlore, pioneer methods. 293 illustrations....
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Tropical Nature : Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (84 Edition)
by Adrian Forsyth Review Scientific AmericanIn 17 chapters, each a brief essay on tropical nature observed, these two young field biologists have made a model of contemporary natural history, cheerfully speculative, concerned as much with large pattern as with diversity...
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Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee Publisher Comments Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with...
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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's...
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Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
by Robert Pyle Publisher Comments The author of Chasing Monarchs takes an extraordinary look at the everyday on a Pacific Northwest homestead. Much the way Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond captured New England, Sky Time in Gray's River captures the essence of the rural...
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A Wild Life: Adventures of an Accidental Conservationist in Africa
by Dick Pitman Publisher Comments This British ex-patriot moved to Zimbabwe in 1977, when it was still called Rhodesia. Pitman stumbled into saving wild animals almost by mistake. But his sense of humor, and love of animals, made him a perfect candidate for this fraught and sometimes...
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
by Tim Flannery
Publisher Comments Tim Flannery is a scientist of international standing, a world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and seven books to his credit. In Throwim Way Leg, he takes us into the field and on an unforgettable journey into the heart of this...
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It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops
by Margaret D Lowman Publisher Comments Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while raising her two sons, Edward and James Burgess. This book recounts their family adventures in remote...
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The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
by Robert Sullivan Publisher Comments Imagine a grunge north Jersey version of John McPhee's classic The Pine Barrens and you'll get some idea of the idiosyncratic, fact-filled, and highly original work that is Robert Sullivan's The Meadowlands. Just five miles west of New York City, this...
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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
by William Bryan Logan Publisher Comments "A gleeful, poetic book…. Like the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer."—Los Angeles Times Book Review "You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and...
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The Left Hand of Eden: Meditations on Nature and Human Nature
by William Ashworth Synopsis This important contribution to the growing debate over the protection of wilderness areas comes from an unusual perspective -- that of an environmentalist arguing against preservation....
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Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert (00 Edition)
by Craig Childs
Publisher Comments Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. As Craig Childs makes clear in this highly praised book, there are two easy ways to die in the desert: thirst or drowning. His...
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