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ISBN: 9780217093972 - Natural History of Selborne Natural History of Selborne
White, Gilbert

ISBN10: 9780141905198  ISBN13: 9780141905198
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory... More

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ISBN: 9780674006683 - Thoreau's Country Thoreau's Country
Foster, David R ; Thoreau, Henry David

ISBN10: 9780674037151  ISBN13: 9780674037151
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780300089776 - Grid and the Village Grid and the Village
Doheny-Farina, Stephen

ISBN10: 9780300133820  ISBN13: 9780300133820
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their... More

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ISBN: 9781551927718 - Chasing Clayoquot Chasing Clayoquot
Pitt-Brooke, David

ISBN10: 9781553656227  ISBN13: 9781553656227
Publisher: Greystone Books
Format: Electronic Book
First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the Earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot Sound. More

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ISBN: 9780899972855 - Meditations of John Muir Meditations of John Muir
Highland, Chris

ISBN10: 9780899974965  ISBN13: 9780899974965
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Format: Electronic Book
Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips. More

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ISBN: 9781593761486 - Terra Antarctica Terra Antarctica
Fox, William

ISBN10: 9781595341006  ISBN13: 9781595341006
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Format: Electronic Book
How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica... More

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ISBN: 9780613999267 - Arctic Dreams Arctic Dreams
Lopez, Barry

ISBN10: 9781448103126  ISBN13: 9781448103126
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
Winner of the National Book Award and a best-seller upon publication in 1986, Arctic Dreams is now acknowledged as a classic, a book that re-defined the genre of nature writing. In prose of transparent beauty, Lopez celebrates the Arctic landscape... More

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ISBN: 9780899976945 - Wisdom of John Muir Wisdom of John Muir
Rowthorn, Anne

ISBN10: 9780899976952  ISBN13: 9780899976952
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Format: Electronic Book
The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the many extant books on John Muir. Building on her... More

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ISBN: 9780143113935 - Wild Places Wild Places
MacFarlane, Robert

ISBN10: 9781847081599  ISBN13: 9781847081599
Publisher: Granta Publications Granta Books
Format: Electronic Book
The Wild Places is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. More

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ISBN: 9781553650928 - Curious by Nature Curious by Nature
Savage, Candace

ISBN10: 9781926706467  ISBN13: 9781926706467
Publisher: Greystone Books
Format: Electronic Book
"e;Curious by Nature: One Womans Exploration of the Natural World"e; showcases Candace Savages exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance... More