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Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Prodigal Summer
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Barbara Kingsolver
From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair ...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Annie Dillard
Chronicling the round of seasons in Roanoke Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the author displays a wide knowledge of her small - yet universal - world. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1974.
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The Cabinet of Curiosities
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Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child
In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made - an underground charnel house containing the bones of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New York's notorious Five Points neighbourhood in the 1880's, bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ...
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The Snow Leopard
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Peter Matthiessen
'In 1973, [Matthiessen] journeyed with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen is a student of Zen Buddhism and for him ...
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A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there
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Aldo Leopold
This special edition of the highly acclaimed A Sand County Almanac commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the ...
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Walden or Life in the Woods
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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society -- an account of the daily minutiae of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and, ...
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A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
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Aldo Leopold, Charles W Schwartz (Illustrator)
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 relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, ...
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
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Terry Tempest Williams
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 classic in the literature of nature, women, and grieving.
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
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Aldo Leopold (Foreword by), Charles W Schwartz (Illustrator), Carolyn Clugston Leopold (Preface by)
"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold ...
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A Walk in the Woods
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Bill Bryson
From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail covers 14 states and over 2000 miles, and stretches along the east coast of America from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the ...
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Ring of Bright Water
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Gavin Maxwell
A simplified education edition for students of ELT in the UK and abroad.
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Sand County Almanac
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Aldo Leopold
With this spectacularly illustrated gift edition, a new generation of readers can walk beside one of America's most respected naturalists as he conveys the beauty of a marsh before sunrise or the wealth of history to be found in an ancient oak.
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Tree Where Man Was Born
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Peter Matthiessen
This volume gives an illustrated account of Peter Matthiessen's travels in East Africa from the Sudan, through Uganda and Kenya to Tanzania. He describes the wildlife and the game reserves of the Serengeti, Maasai Mara and the Ngorongoro Crater, and the archaeological sites at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in the Rift Valley. During these travels he ...
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
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Barry Holstun Lopez
A portrait of the Arctic that celebrates the landscape, wildlife and people of the vast and mysterious region. Above all, it is a story of light - solar and lunar rings, halos and coronas, the aurora borealis, and the distant mountain that is actually a looming and convincing mirage.
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Voyage of the Beagle
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Professor Charles Darwin
The series, devoted to "Adventure Classics", features best selling travel literature, the famous books that have sparked our imagination. The events that have marked the history of archaeology, sailing, mountain climbing and geographical exploration are brought back to life by the words of those who experienced them firsthand, brushing away the ...
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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Richard Fortey
In an elegant and illuminating narrative, the acclaimed author of "Life, Trilobite!," and "Earth" acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that helped to create the Natural History Museum in London. Illustrated.
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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, 1906: A Facsimile Reproduction of a Naturalist's Diary
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Edith Holden
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A Year in the Maine Woods
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Bernd Heinrich
Heinrich rediscovers the meaning of days spent not filling out forms, but tracking deer, or listening to the sound of a moths wing.. Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrichs dream was to focus on the riches of one small placea few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins ...
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My First Summer in the Sierra
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John Muir
This volume in the "John Muir Library Series" is the most popular of Muir's works: the naturalist's account of his first visit to the High Sierra and the Yosemite. There he recognized his life's calling: to preserve wilderness areas. Muir's extraordinary memoir vividly communicates the excitement and reverence he felt at discovering the ...
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Rural Life
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Verlyn Klinkenborg, PH.D.
- Now in its fourth printing, the hardcover edition of THE RURAL LIFE was a NEBA bestseller and a Book Sense 76 pick.- Verlyn Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rural Life" on the editorial page of the New York Times.- Verlyn Klinkenborg has received a National Endowment ...
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The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa
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Rick Ridgeway
In this work, writer, explorer and adventurer Rick Ridgeway offers an account of his journey, on foot for a month, from the summit of Mount Kilamanjaro, through the plains of Tsavo, to the sea, providing a ground-level view of East Africa as it is today and how it once was before the incursion of European civilization. Ridgeway examines the ...
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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Tim Flannery
Flannery, the author of THROWIM WAY LEG, chronicles the epic, 65-million-year evolution of the North American continent. Beginning with the apocryphal striking of an asteroid and following through to the landing of Columbus, Flannery covers everything from climate, species, and megafauna to migration, extinction, and human impact. a New York Times ...
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Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
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Edith Holden
This is a facsimile production of a naturalist's diary for the year 1906. Edith Holden recorded in words and paintings the flora and fauna of the British countryside through the changing seasons of the year.
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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
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Craig Childs
Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West - as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history - has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, ...
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