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by Fred Pearce  Publisher Comments Deep Jungle is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on earth. Beginning with man’s earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce takes us high into the canopy—home to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet. Pearce also... (read more)  List Price $30.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Lewis Hill Publisher Comments Money does grow on trees, and Christmas Trees by Lewis Hill is the essential equipment for anyone who wishes to gain the pleasure and profit of growing and selling trees, wreaths, and greens. Hill, an experienced and skilled tree grower himself, begins... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Foster Publisher Comments In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Poffenberger Publisher Comments Village Voices, Forest Choices offers the first comprehensive examination of revolutionary changes occurring in the management of India's forests. Over the past two decades, responding to scarcities, thousands of villages have taken charge of public... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger G Kennedy Publisher Comments Grounded in the conviction that mankind owes a duty to the environment, the author--retired director of the National Park Service--depicts policies gone terribly awry.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John J Berger Publisher Comments North America's wild forests represent the climax of millions of years of evolution. These complex ecosystems protect soil and water resources, provide habitat for wildlife, and are intrinsically connected to climatic stability and biological diversity... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen J Pyne Publisher Comments The wildfires of the summer of 1910 scorched millions of acres in the western states, depositing soot as far away as Greenland. Through the experiences and words of rangers, soldiers, politicians, scientists, and the volunteers who fought the fires and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Porter Publisher Comments The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Conditions that create large-scale fire disasters are occurring more frequently every year, spurred on by global warming. And the potential for damage, loss of life, and greater harm... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sebastian Junger From Powells.com Sebastian Junger came to the attention of many readers in 1997 with The Perfect Storm, his bestselling account of a ferocious storm off the coast of Nova Scotia and the men and women whose lives were affected by it. However, readers of Vanity... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Vaillant Publisher Comments The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ken Wilcox Publisher Comments "Chile's Native Forests: A Conservation Legacy" is a book about one of the wildest remaining temperate forest regions of the world, including the largest temperate rainforest outside of North America. All of the nation's major forest ecosystems are... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Beach Publisher Comments Early on a September morning in 1998, David "Gypsy" Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andy Kerr Publisher Comments Five million acres of unprotected roadless forest remain in Oregon, stretching from the rain-drenched shores of the Pacific and Coast range, across the snow-covered Cascades to the Blue Mountains, Wallowas, and Hells Canyon; from the Deschutes, John Day,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gordon Macmillan Publisher Comments This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Tierney Publisher Comments When the Yanomami were first encountered by Napoleon Chagnon, Jacques Lizot, and other preeminent anthropologists in the 1960s, the "discovery" of their ferocious warfare and sexual competition revolutionized modern anthropology as profoundly as Franz... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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