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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Staff Pick Every summer Philip Connors runs away from home. He spends half the year in a remote fire lookout savoring the solitude and the joy of monotasking. His wonderful book, Fire Season, will make you want to quit your job, sell the house, and find your own... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments A stunning collection of personal observations that uses images of the American West to probe larger concerns in lyrical, evocative prose that is a true celebration of the region.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon Publisher Comments This easy-to-use field guide features 794 species of plants commonly found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kinship With All Life (54 Edition) by J. Allen Boone Publisher Comments Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience?Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whelks to Whales: Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Rick M Harbo Publisher Comments This full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters, beachcombers, and snorkellers of every experience level. The concise handbook is a ready... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Liberation ((Rev)02 Edition) by Peter Singer Publisher Comments The book that started a revolution. Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey. The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World by Holley Bishop Publisher Comments Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pine Barrens by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Sibley and The National Audubon Society Staff Publisher Comments David Allen Sibley, America's most gifted contemporary painter of birds, is the author and illustrator of this comprehensive guide. His beautifully detailed illustrations more than 6,600 in all and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Flexible
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Birds of the Willamette Valley Region by Harry Nehls Publisher Comments Birds of the Willamette Valley Region is an identification guide for the birds of the greater Willamette Valley area. The Species Account pages provide color photographs of over 200 local birds and have a companion page with key information about... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World by William R. Leach Publisher Comments With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout. From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments When Peter Matthiessen set out with the field biologist George Schaller from Pokhara, in northwest Nepal, their hope was to reach the Crystal Mountain a foot journey of 250 miles or more across the Himalaya in the Land of Dolpo, on the... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Audubon Society field guide to North American birds. by Audubon Publisher Comments Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million enthusiasts. Virtually every bird found in North America is brought to life in a full-color photograph... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Flexible
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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson Publisher Comments In her luminous descriptions of intertidal life, Carson shows her remarkable ability to describe the beauties of science and the natural world.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments 'Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin\'s theories were merged with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places by David Quammen From Powells.com David Quammen's column, "Natural Acts," ran for fifteen years in Outside magazine; his stories, profiles, and essays have appeared in magazines ranging from Rolling Stone to Powder. Wild Thoughts from Wild Places collects twenty-three of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram Publisher Comments David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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