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For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence. This powerful collection of pictures features all the winning photographs from the 2015...

Nature lovers will delight in these 31 fun-to-color word designs The distinctive illustrations feature the shapes of plants and animals formed by a variety of descriptive terms. Images include an acorn, butterfly, hummingbird, mushroom, tulip, sunflower, and dozens of other items. Illustrations are printed...

The time is 1 p.m., May 24, 1869. The place: the Green River portage, in present-day Wyoming. The personnel are ten: Major John W. Powell, one-armed Civil War veteran, later head of the U. S. Geological Survey) and nine geologists, geographers, scouts, and adventurers....

Join Russell Dunn as he takes you on a breathtaking trek through Central and Western New York State to some of the most incredible and wondrous natural rock formations that the region has to offer. Featured are the rock cities of southwestern New York,...

This book is really three books in one. It is a guidebook for a walking/cycling route across California that follows John Muir's footsteps from San Francisco to Yosemite via the Pacheco Pass. It is an adventure book, telling the story of Peter and Donna...

The Black Bear is written in two parts. The first part is The Story of Ben which depicts the author's experience of discovering a black bear cub in the wilderness in 1890. The second part discusses the habits and distribution of the Black Bear.Author:...

Arguably America's most famous nonconformist, Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 1845 to September 1847, chronicling his experiences there. It was an experiment in living a life unhindered by social trappings and tradition. His work was not widely renowned for years after his...

Experience the adventures of a seasonal ranger at Yosemite National Park. In his lively memoirs, Thomas A. Smith covers the highlights of his life as a seasonal ranger from 1971 through 1988. This book is a fascinating look at the activity that goes on...

This guidebook contains all you need to know about renting a fire lookout in the Pacific Northwest.Author: Tish McFadden, Tom FoleyISBN-10: 0899973841ISBN-13: 9780899973845Publisher: Wilderness PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2005Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.55d

This book is packed full of fun nature activities that will help children engage with the season and learn practical new skills. Activities for summer include growing and cooking fresh herbs, caring for butterflies, activities based around water, fire, earth and air, and working...

Author and explorer Neider writes about his third trip to Antarctica, telling of the beauty of the desolate land, its history, and the current ecological debates surrounding it.Author: Charles NeiderISBN-10: 0815412355ISBN-13: 9780815412359Publisher: Cooper Square PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2002Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.04w x...

The Shenandoah Valley is famous for its role in Civil War history and for its great natural beauty. But there is something else: it is a tremendous place to fish. Fishing the Shenandoah Valley: An Angler's Guide is the latest stop in author M....

"This extremely informative guide should prove useful even to those well acquainted with the University of Virginia campus. Other visitors to Charlottesville can rely upon it to guide them on a thoughtful inspection of Jefferson's last great architectural work." -- Journal of the Society...

The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden...

Native Americans have long survived off the land of Idaho's plains and mountain-lands. The many species of trees, bushes and plants throughout the state have provided them with food, medicine and shelter. Whether for survival, curiosity or just for fun, this book will walk...

Native Americans have long survived off the land of Colorado's plains and mountain-lands. The many species of trees, bushes and plants throughout the state have provided them with food, medicine and shelter. This is a guide for disaster or food shortages and is not...

Each year almost two million visitors come to Mount Rainier National Park. If they don't follow safety warnings, they may find themselves victims of a climbing accident, or face-to-face with a mountain lion, or stuck in the fog and snow on the Muir Snowfield,...

You can find the Ebook at http: //www.smashwords.com/books/view/31179 Everyday life with an African Grey Parrot seen through the humorous and often twisted mind of his owner, Georgi. Her interesting perspectives on animal intellect and unique insights into nature take the reader on a thought...

In Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands: A Bilingual Resource Guide, anthropologist Dr. Antonio "Tony" Zavaleta shares medicinal plant information from his lifetime of experiences with Mexican folk healers known as curandero/a(s). Consulting with their patients, healers issue recetas, handwritten prescribed orders for medicinal plants...

Snow surveyors throughout the world get to see what most of us only dream about: stunning terrain, birdlife and animals rarely seen in lower elevations, and stars that seem close enough to grab. Patrick Armstrong reveals the little-known world of a snow surveyor in...

Snow surveyors throughout the world get to see what most of us only dream about: stunning terrain, birdlife and animals rarely seen in lower elevations, and stars that seem close enough to grab. Patrick Armstrong reveals the little-known world of a snow surveyor in...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Dorothy SterlingISBN-10: 1446519767ISBN-13: 9781446519769Publisher: Macnutt...

The Whippet - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a...

The Irish Wolfhound - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from...

The French Bulldog - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from...

The Irish Terrier - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from...

This early works is an informative look at the history and origin of The Bull Terrier, extensively illustrated, it is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelfs of all Terrier breeders. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and...

Published posthumously in 1864 and based on Henry David Thoreau's lengthy experiences in the forests of Maine on three separate occasions in 1846, 1853, and 1857, "The Maine Woods" is a captivating portrait of the largely unexplored region in the mid-1800s. Rich with the...

This is the less expensive black and white edition of the color edition of The Edgar Cayce Plant Encyclopedia.Author: F. Michael PinkavaISBN-10: 1543191037ISBN-13: 9781543191035Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2017Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.60d

365 lined pages allow you to write to your heart's content.Author: Alice E. TidwellISBN-10: 1519273789ISBN-13: 9781519273789Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2015Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.77d

In Eastern California four hours north of Los Angeles lies a long trough-shaped valley, bordered on either side by massive mountain ranges. Valley and mountains together form a region of superlatives. Here you will find our highest peak outside Alaska, Mount Whitney. The oldest...

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the landscape and its wildlife. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays--spent scrambling through hedges and ditches...

Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country's colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras Drawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this book offers a...

Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs PrizeWinner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical WritingA celebration of the richly diverse flora and fauna of Vancouver Island as explored through the records of explorers, settlers, and visitors, and with due respect to the...

2017 Reprint of 1956 Abridged Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This edition is abridged and edited for easier access to Darwin's work, the original edition of which spanned over 500 pages. Darwin's On the Origin of...

Over the course of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips into the widely unexplored woods of Maine, taking notes constantly, acutely observing the rivers, the lakes, the mountains, the animals, and stars, he also told of nights sitting by campfires, of meeting...

Explorer, cryptozoologist, and creationist Bill Gibbons has traveled to remote corners of the world in search of strange and unknown creatures. But Bill's heart is in Africa, where monstrous dinosaur-like creatures are still rumored to inhabit the vast swamps of the Congo Basin. In...

Oscar Wilde deemed his life "perfect," and described him as a man with "a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He is PETER ALEXEYEVICH KROPOTKIN (1842-1921), communist advocate and "anarchist prince." Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, first...

Perhaps the best known non-fiction book ever written by an American, Walden chronicles Thoreau's stay in a cabin by Walden Pond, on land owned by his friend and compatriot, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau stayed here for two years and two months and hoped to...

Ancient Greek ethnographies--descriptions of other peoples--provide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, as well as anxieties, about how humans relate to nature as a whole. In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder examines the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus...

Kayaking Adventures in Beautiful British Columbia is a collection of true, wilderness adventure stories by renowned author Jennifer Hellings. Join her as she paddles and camps along the coast of BC, encountering the diverse wildlife which make this area their home. From kayaking with...

Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches. Complicated structures like buildings or bridges are slow and laborious to build but, with a design flaw or enough explosive energy, take only seconds to collapse....

Council for Wisconsin Writers, Norbert Blei/August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award winner In this often-surprising book of essays, Krista Eastman explores the myths we make about who we are and where we're from. The Painted Forest uncovers strange and little-known "home places"--not only the picturesque...

Author: Cassandra KircherISBN-10: 1946684945ISBN-13: 9781946684943Publisher: West Virginia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2019Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.80h x 5.00w x 0.40dReview Citation(s): Foreword 04/26/2019

Written to entertain hunters and armchair adventurers alike, The Great Wild Sheep Adventure is both a how-to guide for those who aspire to the pinnacle of North American wild sheep hunting and a natural history adventure for those who love the outdoors. Hansen covers...

Take up your axe and raise the dragon's head upon the longship's prow The time has come to brave the frozen empires of the savage north. Here honor is more common than steel, trolls and giants battle the gods, and a hero lives by...

Setting out from her house, fondly named Middlewood, in the Piedmont of South Carolina, Helen Correll takes long, wandering walks along Meetinghouse Creek with her dogs to observe and draw the nature of her landscape. From her studio nestled in the forest behind the...

The history of mountaineering began on Denali with the legendary story of four gold miners (called "Sourdoughs" because they carried sourdough starter with them at all times) who claimed to have summited after climbing more than 8,000 feet of steep snow and ice, then...

The second in the Radiesthesia series, Freeland develops his dowsing method to guide the potential investigation into the nature and function of energy as manifested in the human body, and provides a simple process of diagnosis. Adopting a wholistic approach thanks to his solid...

FUN FACTSThis book is full of fun and unbelievable facts about absolutely everything Inside, you will find hundreds of the strangest, most interesting, and unbelievable facts. With the new knowledge you'll learn, you'll be able to wow your friends and family with a variety...