Nature - General

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

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...

Squatchin' - The accumulative knowledge in this study guide covers every facet of the Sasquatch/Bigfoot creature From a study of the animal's habitat, to the disclosed analysis of the "Bigfoot Telegraph"; the Sasquatch signaling devices and their interpretation. The study guide and field handbook...

Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants, in particular grain and fodder crops, trees and shrubs, as well as weeds. Following their example, and drawing on the...

Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, "The Struggle for Existence", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation...

From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars, this richly illustrated volume offers a lively introduction to the history of natural history, from the sixteenth century to...

Great Journal and Book For School or College Students. Great Animal Nature Gift For Yourself Or A Friend.Author: Marko MarcusISBN-10: 1080414576ISBN-13: 9781080414574Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2019Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d

Great Journal and Book For School or College Students. Great Animal Nature Gift For Yourself Or A Friend.Author: Marko MarcusISBN-10: 1080411321ISBN-13: 9781080411320Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2019Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d

Originally published in 1900 and reproduced in 2008. Depicts the life of a silvertip grizzly bear named Wahb, as a cub to adulthood. Wonderful narrative.Author: Ernest Seton-ThompsonISBN-10: 0972815511ISBN-13: 9780972815512Publisher: ConverpageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2008Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.39d

A personal portrait of a young American girl's rural childhood - including reminiscences of the Civil War and pioneering in the West. Renewed interest in wilderness, rural farm life, and the experiences of pioneer women has prompted the reissue of this work.Author: Anne Gertrude...

William H. H. Murray wrote his celebrated book in the spring of 1869 to introduce city-dwellers to the rewards of camping in the wilderness. Thousands of tourists streamed to the Adirondacks that summer in what was known as "Murray's Rush." Unfortunately, most had not...

The wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, these creatures are very real, living by night and, despite shrinking habitats and hordes of hunters, thriving on six continents. Greene purchased an eighteenth-century presbytery in...

The saga of Florida's geological development started approximately 700 million years ago. It began as the state's basement rocks migrated nearly 12,600 kilometers from their position within a supercontinent at the Earth's South Pole to their present location north of the equator, participating in...

Florida's Big Bend Coast is one of America's longest and wildest continuous wetlands. Seminole Indians once sought refuge from American soldiers along its shores. Today, visitors find a different kind of refuge, a refuge from a hectic world. In the first comprehensive armchair guide...

A Naturalist in Costa Rica picks up Alexander F. Skutch's story in 1935, the year his memoir The Imperative Call ends. In it he recoreds his life, work, observations, and reflections during thirty-five years in the southeastern Pacific section of Costa Rica.Author: Alexander F....

Detailed guide to growing your own ginseng plus how to sell and use the plant after harvestingFinding, harvesting, and conserving ginseng in the wildUpdates include information about state regulations and scientific studies of ginseng's nearest neighborsThis popular guide to cultivating and using ginseng has...

How much does the current landscape of Boston, Massachusetts, resemble the place that Captain John Smith referred to in 1614 as "the Paradise of all these parts"? John Hanson Mitchell explores a variety of habitats as he ranges outward from the core of the...

To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. The biologist explores the web of interrelationships among land, animals, and...

The pages of this book have captured, distilled, and illuminated the wonders of the wild lands and the whitetails that haunt them, the other creatures that render the swamps magical and intriguing, and the quiet thump of a bow and hiss of an arrow....

Bay Windows is a poetic union of the natural and the political, rendered in the uniquely descriptive poetry of Cape Cod poet Leo Thibault. The collection deals with intricate moments of ordinary life, extraordinary glimpses at the beauty of the world around us, and...

Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore. The Paradox of Preservation chronicles how national ideals about what a...

Boy Scouts cofounder and avid outdoorsman Uncle Dan Beard researched the secret languages of trappers, hobos, steamer pilots, and Native American tribes to compile this comprehensive resource of pictographs and other encoded communication symbols. First published nearly a century ago, this practical reference provides...

Detroit's public school system, lauded as a model for the nation in the 1920s and 1930s, has become one of the city's most conspicuous failures. Jeffrey Mirel draws on Detroit's experience to offer a new interpretation of urban educational decline in the twentieth century,...

A skeptical follower of James Jesse Strang once wrote: "No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve a temporal king and a republican government at the same time. The thing is preposterous." And yet, under Strang, such a system survived in Michigan for...

Today, Michigan is home to many different animals and plants. Yet nearly 12,000 years ago it was home to very different kinds of animals and flora. Huge mastodons and mammoths roamed through southern Michigan. Whales, walruses, and giant rodents swam in the lakes, and...

Available for the first time in a text-only edition, Peter Matthiessen's acclaimed Men's Lives should enjoy the kind of success that greeted John McPhee's Pine Barrens and William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers.Author: Peter MatthiessenISBN-10: 039475560XISBN-13: 9780394755601Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/1988Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.72h x 5.42w...

Jeanine McMullen was a BBC producer in London when, some ten years ago, she went to Wales on assignment. There she fell in love--with Wales, its people, and most of all with the farm that, on an impulse, she decided to buy. In this...

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his...

Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep...

Read about Ten Years of City Creatures at the Center for Humans and Nature We usually think of cities as the domain of humans--but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar...

Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries...

Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition. "This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would...

Why do species live where they live? What determines the abundance and diversity of species in a given area? What role do species play in the functioning of entire ecosystems? All of these questions share a single core concept-the ecological niche. Although the niche...

Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow...

February 15, 2016, was the beginning of a debate on man-made climate change between two well-known experts in the field, Princeton Professor of Physics Dr. William Happer and University of Melbourne Atmospheric Sciences Professor Dr. David Karoly, hosted by James Barham and his team...

This book is a masterpiece focused on story telling poems, touches various life topics from a lens of observations and being observed. This book explores darker aspects with endings that are not always favorable, but optimism is prevalent throughout, with love being the prominent...

A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne's romances and other...

How to start field dressing like a pro in no time - even if you're a complete beginner!Hunting has always been an essential skill for our survival.But somewhere along the way, we became less in touch with the ancient practices of our species, and...

The deteriorating earth's environment is a matter of concern for all. Though the leaders of different countries are trying to face the situation at a greater level, but every individual can contribute in this regard. We use different things in our house or office....

Still your mind, and sense the quietness of Spirit. Picture the silver thread connecting all living things. Hear the silence within, the Source of Creation bubbling up like a spring in that quiet space between your thoughts. Learn to observe Life around you in...