Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books
Scottish Mountaineering Club A' Chreag Dhearg: Climbing Stories of the Angus
Book SynopsisCompiled and co-authored by veteran climber Grant Farquhar with contributions from a range of voices within Scotland's close-knit climbing community, A' Chreag Dhearg traces the rich climbing history of Angus Glens. Although less frequented than the forbidding ramparts of Glencoe or Skye, the crags and gullies in this unique area of the Cairngorms harbour classic summer and winter lines that have attracted some of Scotland's most respected climbers over the course of a century. In this engaging collection of vignettes and photographs, the origins of many of the glens' best-loved routes are described in intimate detail in an entertaining style that will appeal to both local climbers and those seeking new ventures to explore. The authors have woven the distinctive dialect and humour of this corner of Scotland into the narrative, imbuing it with a quality that is, by turns, both edgy and wistful. Despite the deceptively narrow scope of this story, the breadth with which it is considered here captures the way that climbing has developed in Scotland over time, and how this history is often exceptionally localised. A' Chreag Dhearg is both a tribute to Victorian pioneers and latter-day trailblazers and a poignant reflection on formative, youthful endeavours.
£18.00
Bene Factum Publishing Ltd Faith in Food
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£14.24
Umbria Press Time is Running Out: Reflections on an
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£12.39
Umbria Press Climate Change: The Path to a Sustainable Future
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£12.39
Umbria Press The Best of Times, The worst of Times: The
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£12.39
Consilience Media Walks in the Derwent Valley
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£7.65
2QT Publishing Services The Coast-to-Coast Walk: Rocks & Scenery
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£13.77
Maps International Ltd Scratch United Kingdom Wall Map
Book SynopsisThe Scratch United Kingdom Print makes a great and unique gift for the traveller in your life. UK map which can be scratched off features every county clearly with coloured boundary lines. All major towns and cities are highlighted on our UK wall map. The map contains hill and sea shading bringing the map to life. Designed by specialist map makers, our team of cartographers create beautiful maps. The Scratch United Kingdom Print is incredibly accurate with special attention paid to marking any major towns, cities, and county and country borders clearly visible as well. Scratch the map to reveal an incredible neutral toned map base underneath, that you can display in your home or office space. The ideal UK travel gift, perfect for couples, adventurers and lovers of Great Britain. Size A2
£15.19
Maps International Ltd Maps International - Scratch Off London's Blue
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£13.49
Maps International Ltd Scratch the World kids animals wall map: 2019
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£15.29
Maps International Ltd Outer Space Glow in the Dark Children's World
Book SynopsisKids world wall map which comes to life and will illuminate at night. Playful illustrations of various space objects such as a space rocket, satellites, an astronaut, comets and stars. This is one of our most popular posters for boys' rooms. Map Detail: This world map is one of a kind and is the only world map to glow in the dark. Ideal for a child's bedroom this world map is a fun and educational tool, as well as providing a welcome distraction for those that might be scared of the dark. Please note your kids glow in the dark world map poster will charge during the day by absorbing the light that filters into the room. The illusionary map contours magically appears at night and is visible only when the room is completely dark. This world map will glow for approximately 12 hours whilst in the dark. Size A1
£16.14
Maps International Ltd World political classic wallmap laminated: 2021
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£16.99
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd The Last Blue Mountain: The great Karakoram
Book Synopsis‘When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.’The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them.The group’s efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But another cruel twist of fate awaits them.An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching the Void, Ralph Barker’s The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 2020 Edition by Ed DouglasForeword to the 1959 Edition by Lord HuntAuthor’s Note1 HARAMOSH2 IN THE KUTWAL VALLEY3 ABOVE THE HARAMOSH LA4 TROUBLE WITH THE HUNZAS5 THE LOST FOOD DUMP6 THE CLIMB TO CAMP IV7 THE SNOW CAVE8 EMERY AND THE CREVASSE9 THE AVALANCHE10 THE SNOW BASIN11 THE TREACHEROUS TRAVERSE12 THE TRACKS DIVIDE13 FIGHTING FOR LIFE14 DISINTEGRATION15 ALONE AT CAMP III16 LAST NIGHTS ON THE MOUNTAINAfterwordAppendix: ‘The Runcible Cat’ by John EmeryPhotographs and IllustrationsIndex
£12.34
Maps International Ltd Scotland Leisure Wall Map
Book SynopsisThe perfect Leisure map of Scotland that shows significant locations and the best spots to visit around the country. Size A2
£14.24
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd Sister Nature: The Education of an Optimistic
Book SynopsisThe revolution will not take place indoors.Kenyan beekeeper-turned-farmer Jess de Boer embarks upon a decade-long journey to find purpose and potential in the explosive world of regenerative agriculture.From honey hunting in the last remaining pockets of rainforest in southern Ethiopia, to gardening in the depths of Kenya's largest slum, Jess takes you to the arid lands of Northern Kenya where a group of pioneering farmers have begun to connect the people with the dust beneath their feet.This is a journey into restorative action. Confronting the challenges of our stagnant education systems, unsustainable food production techniques and the growing disconnect of our youth, de Boer merges fact and science with hard-won wisdom in this inspiring and accessible tale of proactivity and hope.
£15.29
Sandstone Press Ltd The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing
Book SynopsisBritain's west coast is home to only one pod of orca, and they're heading rapidly towards extinction. In 2014, Dr Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the HV Silurian to seek out the West Coast Community of Orca and study them before we lose them forever. In The Last Sunset in the West, she discusses them as individuals while also exploring the many issues surrounding their lives. Her captivating account takes the reader from the Western Isles of Scotland to Vancouver Island and around the world, deep into the history of our relations with these beautiful and sentient creatures.Trade Review‘Natalie Sanders conveys both the magnificence and fragility of this remarkable creature.’‘A wonderfully passionate account.’‘Thought-provoking and very timely.’ ‘It is vital that the story of the West Coast Community is spread far and wide.’‘An important wake up call.’
£999.99
Right Book Press Happiness By Numbers: How to measure and manage
Book SynopsisImagine if there was a way to measure your impact on the environment and manage how it affects your happiness. What if you could be sure that everything that matters in your life was on track to maximise your feelings of fulfilment and contentment? In Happiness By Numbers, chartered environmentalist Richard Lupo draws on decades of expert research to provide you with a very neat, science-based framework that shows how your decisions and actions affect your environment, while measuring your progress towards achieving long-term wellbeing. From your own personal happiness to the wellbeing of your family and friends, as well as your impact on the planet as a whole, you’ll discover how, with a clear vision, an effective strategy, a dash of proven science and some very clever number crunching, you can make every part of your life happier and more rewarding. Take an eye-opening journey into happiness and the environment that will change how you think and feel about what they mean and uncover: A blueprint for boosting your own long-term wellbeing Fascinating insights into the science behind what makes us happy Practical tips for creating safe and secure environments for all A roadmap towards better decisions on sustainability and living a net zero life How happiness really looks when you put in into numbers If it’s true that you can only manage what you can measure, by exploring and leveraging what science and data reveals about what makes us happy, we can all build a better world that’s happier not only for ourselves but those around us too.Trade Review'Eye-opening! It sets out the case for a more sustainable future with useful tips and tools for things that matter to people – like happiness, friendship and community.' Sarah Mukherjee MBE, CEO of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment'This is a revelation; a really good read. Fascinating, inspiring and encouraging, it’s a book that you’ll keep coming back to.' Sue Chalkley OBE, FCIH
£14.39
Little Peak Press Traceless: Exploring the Spirit of Fell-Running
Book SynopsisTraceless takes inspiration from the Lake District, the Gerry Charnley Round and Gerry Charnley himself. Charnley is little remembered, but was a prolific fell runner, orienteer and climber who founded the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon (KIMM), now the OMM. In his early 50s he tragically died on Helvellyn, his namesake Round was established in his memory by his friends. The ethos of the Round is on self-sufficiency and leaving no trace - the runner is encouraged to plan their own route to visit all the checkpoints, then navigate that route, creating their own line from multiple route choices. Inspired by the concept of the Gerry Charnley Round and its journey over the Lakeland fells, runners Geoff Cox and Heather Dawe have each spent time exploring and running the route. They are poets, writers and artists as well as fell runners and Traceless is a collaboration between them that celebrates their love for the fells and how spending time in them inspires them creatively.Trade Review‘What makes Traceless so special is its collaborative nature, and the way it spans poetry and prose, fact and fiction, cartography and creativity. It is, as a result of these factors, a truly unique fell-running book.’ UKClimbing (December 2020); ‘Geoff and Heather’s tribute to the Gerry Charnley Round mimics the run’s unique nature – not a line on a map, nor a series of fell-tops but a collection of places. Through prose, poetry and artwork, Traceless presents a multi-layered ode to fell-running and “going to the hills”.’Cumbria Life (December 2020)Table of Contents1. Traceless 2. Introduction 3. Borrowdale 4. As Water Flows - Part 1 5. Gerry Charnley Round - Attempt 1 6. Nightfall at Charnley Cairn - A story 7. As Water Flows - Part 2 8. Map Reading 9. Gerry Charnley Round - Attempt 2 10. As Water Flows - Part 3 11. Why Traceless? 12. Traceless Days
£11.40
Little Peak Press Twisted Mountains: Tall Stories from Britain's
Book SynopsisTwisted Mountains is a collection of short stories set among the summits of England, Scotland and Wales, from Ben Hope to the South Downs. Each tells the story of someone who has their own reasons to be in the mountains. From a vengeful student to obsessive hostel owner, the wannabe biker to the Wainwright expert with a secret. While the stories are varied in their subjects, all have mountains at their heart and a dark humour running through them. Authored by Tim Woods, Twisted Mountains provides a different take on the characters you find in and around the mountains. Tim tells their stories in the characters' varied voices, in ways that are shocking, dark, funny and sad, sometimes all at once.
£11.88
Little Peak Press A Path of Shadows
Book SynopsisA Path of Shadows is writer and mountaineer John Porter's first poetry collection. Exploring the natural world, family ties and physical science as well his climbing life, A Path of Shadows is a reflection of Porter's sharp and broad intellect, and of his desire and ability to express his feelings, beliefs and life experiences through poetry
£15.19
£19.00
ATF Press Water: A Matter of Life and Death
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£14.24
ATF Press The Greenie's Guide to the End of the World:
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£25.64
ATF Press Ethics in Climate Change: Choosing the Future
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£20.89
ATF Press Ethics in Climate Change: Choosing the Future
Book SynopsisThe immediate challenge of COVID-19 in 2020 and beyond notwithstanding, there can be little doubt that climate change poses the most significant threat to the ongoing survival of humankind. It seems that almost every day brings new evidence of this fact. The Australian summer of 2019-2020, to draw upon but one example, witnessed a terrible trifecta of heatwaves, drought and bushfires, made worse by climate change. This volume of essays seeks this path of pragmatism, incrementally searching out a new moral order, a new way of living collectively that recognises the risks, and responds to them in humility. In five contributions, we seek an outline of what is necessary if we are to change the way we live. Each of the contributors takes a plural and pragmatic approach. There are no sweeping claims about our solutions providing the ultimate panacea. Instead, in each case, humility informs the proposal -- clear that what is presented here is done so not as a panacea, but as an incremental offering of what might be tried as we, humanity, respond to the challenge of climate change. None of science or the social sciences and humanities, alone, can fix this problem. Indeed, it may not be possible to fix this problem. What each discipline can do, however, is offer, in humility, a suggestion that will make a small change to be added to many other small changes. The hope, of course, is that these incremental changes will produce a new way of living on this planet, one characterised by humility, pluralism, and pragmatism.
£23.74
Wilkinson Publishing Happy Planet Living: Simple Ways to Live a
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£17.99
ATF Press Making Peace with the Land of Australian: Based
Book SynopsisThis heart of this volume is based on a lecture given in honour of Charles Strong, the authors mentor in the pursuit of peace. On Armistice Day 2018, we held an Armistice Day Convocation to honour Charles Strong as a pioneer pacifist in Australia and collected our reflections in a volume entitled, Remembering Pioneer Pacifist Charles Strong.
£22.79
ATF Press The Natural World and God: Theological
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£35.09
Spinifex Press Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy
Book SynopsisDo we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coal mines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are destroying the earth with their insistence on profit. But what point is profit on a dead and silent planet? In this enlightening yet devastating book, Susan Hawthorne writes with clarity and incisiveness on how patriarchy is wreaking destruction on the planet and on communities. The twin mantras of globalisation and growth expounded by the neoliberalism that has hijacked the planet are revealed in all their shabby deception. Backed by meticulous research, the author shows how so-called advances in technology are, like a Trojan horse, used to mask sinister political agendas that sacrifice the common good for the shallow profiteering of corporations and mega-rich individuals. The biotechnologists see the lure of cure, rising share prices and profits. She details how women, lesbians, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, the poor, refugees and the very earth itself are being damaged by the crisis of patriarchy that is sucking everyone into its vortex. Importantly, this precise and insightful volume also shows what is needed to get ourselves out of this spiral of destruction: a radical feminist approach with compassion and empathy at its core. Shame is an emotion of the powerless because they cannot change the rules. The book shows a way out of the vortex: it is now up to the collective imagination and action of people everywhere to take up the challenges Susan Hawthorne shows are needed. This is a vital book for a world in crisis and should be read by everyone who cares about our future.Table of ContentsPreface: The Year of the Pandemic Introduction A note on truth A note on words Key terms in this book Chapter One: The Crisis of Economics: Patriarchal Wars against People and the Planet Appropriation of politics How has criticism of globalisation shifted sides? The speeding vortex: every failure is a new business opportunity Understanding neoliberalism Resistance Markets, work and the Universal Basic Income Chapter Two: Less Than Perfect: Medical Wars against People with Disabilities Feminism Ruling classes Infantilisation Colonisation Harm minimisation Normalisation Erasure The technology of bodies Money The personal is political Chapter Three: Feminist Cassandras: Men’s Patriotic Wars against Women’s Intimate Lives War and the institution of heterosexuality intersect War and masculinity, torture and heterosexuality Intimacy and war To counter war is to counter the militarism embedded in daily life Postmodern war Money What would it take for a woman to be free of injury and to live without fear for her safety? Chapter Four: Biocolonialism and Bioprospecting: Wars against Indigenous Peoples and Women What is bioprospecting? What is biopiracy? Biopiracy of earth-based resources Biopiracy and value Biopiracy of body-based resources Separation Microcolonialism of Indigenous bodies Gynocolonialism Bodies with disabilities Heterocolonialism Intergenerational sustainability and cultural integrity Money What practices and laws can be implemented to prevent knowledge theft and biocolonialism? Chapter Five: Deterritoriality and Breaking the Spirit: Land, Refugees and Trauma Being homeless in the body Dispossession Land as relationship Land as relationship in prehistory Trauma Refusing refugees Money What systems could be put in place to end planetary theft? Chapter Six: Colonisation, Erasure and Torture: Wars against Lesbians Globalisation The politics of shame The phallus and the penis Origins of patriarchy and violence against lesbians Nationalism and exile Global recolonisation Lesbian refugees Money Guidelines for officials interviewing lesbian refugees Chapter Seven:Breaking the Spirit of the Women's Liberation Movement: The War against Biology Trans v cis Trans vs intersex Trans vs lesbian Trans vs women Women's Circus Oppression Postmodernism and queer theory Silence Trauma Hatred and shame Breaking the spirit Theft of a future and a past Commodification Strategies used by the trans lobby Violence against trans people Institutionalising trans laws Money for astroturfing and transgender causes Why sexual orientation not gender identity? Chapter Eight:Breaking the Spirit of the Planet: Climate Catastrophe Breaking the spirit of the planet Temperate zone: bushfires Dry zone: drought and water wars Wet zone: coral death, cyclones, floods Money Breaking the heart of the planet Chapter Nine: Sovereignty and the Spirit of Nature Uncultivated Sovereignty
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Spinifex Press Out of the Fog: On Politics, Feminism and Coming
Book SynopsisFrom racialised police brutality to climate change, #MeToo, ‘trans rights,’ COVID-19, the prospect of nuclear war, and the prevalence of trauma—we are constantly bombarded with high stakes problems that we are expected to speak out about and act on. On closer inspection, the popular solutions to each of these problems aren’t easy to reconcile. Black Lives Matter activists demand prison abolition, while #MeToo feminists want rapists in jail—and while our objections to war and police brutality make us suspicious of state institutions in general, our responses to climate change and COVID-19 reinforce our dependency on them. Out of the Fog cuts through the confusion. RenÉe Gerlich suggests that readers move beyond feeling overwhelmed and emotionally manipulated.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: My StoryChapter Two: Desire and DistortionChapter Three: Rebellion and BacklashChapter Four: Fatal ContradictionsChapter Five: Cassandra’ s Power
£17.95
Spinifex Press Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and
Book SynopsisOffering an exciting ride into how the world could be, this book is the one we have been waiting for. Feminists have long been saying we could do life differently, here is the local and global exploration of what needs to change, what must go and how together we can make a new reality. A visionary book with a focus on local and global politics and social movements, Wild Politics presents a powerful critique of global western culture. Susan Hawthorne unpicks the structures of power and knowledge, law and international trade rules, as well as probing issues that intimately affect our daily lives. Wild Politics concludes with a compelling vision for a world inspired by biodiversityTrade ReviewA work of breathtaking erudition. —Diane BellTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Permissions Preface to the 2022 edition INTRODUCTION A Feminist Critique of Western Global Culture Cultural Logic Decolonising Scholarship Biodiversity and Seeds The Seed of Culture Weaving the Strands Defining the Wild CHAPTER ONE The Principle of Diversity Beginnings Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis Feminism Change Creating Feminist Knowledge Who is the Knower? Standpoint Theory Analysis Synthesis Dissociation Associative Thinking CHAPTER TWO Power and Knowledge: Global Monotony or Local Diversity? Power The Power of Violence The Power of Reward The Power of Backlash The Power of Obstacles The Power of Systems The Power of Attraction The Power of Attitudes Knowledge Assimilation and Appropriation A Clash of Knowledge Systems Not seeing The Perceptual Gap How Knowledge is Valued Cultural Homogeneity In Defence of Diversity CHAPTER THREE One Global Economy or Diverse Decolonised Economies? The Logic of Neoclassical Economics How Women Are (ac)Counted Economic Homogeneity and Globalisation Decolonising Economics Feminist Economics Ecological Economics Toward a Wild Economics CHAPTER FOUR Land as Relationship and Land as Possession Land as resource or relationship? Wilderness Land Dealing with Waste "Freeing" the Land, Enclosing the Commons Feminist conceptions of land Indigenous conceptions of land Land as possession Tourism: land and wilderness as commodity Urban land Urban land as wild space Steps to developing a wild politics of land CHAPTER FIVE Farming, Fishing and Forestry: from subsistence to terminator technology Farming in Kenya and Nigeria Forestry in Lithuania, the USA, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Fishing in the Pacific Digitised and globalised farming: what the future holds The Kyoto Protocol, plantation forests and Terminator Trees Fishing wild fish to feed domesticated fish The commodification of "everything" Women as keepers of ecosystems CHAPTER SIX Production, consumption and work: global and local Production and disparity Consumption and disparity Work and disparity Global production Global consumption Global work Local production Local consumption Local work Military as gross producer and consumer Conclusion CHAPTER SEVEN Monocultures and multilateral trade rules Patents Multilateral trade agreements and the shape of international law Multilateral trade negotiations and the convention on biological diversity The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Trade related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Food security The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Traditional Resource Rights (TRRs) and Community Intellectual Rights (CIRs) Human Genome Project (HGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) Conclusion CHAPTER EIGHT Wild Politics Wild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years Appendix Tables 1. World’s 100 largest economic entities (2001) 2. Companies, countries and name changes 3. Areas of highest cultural and biological diversity Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography
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Griffin Media Impending World Energy Mess: What It Is & What It
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£10.44
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Little Black Lies: Corporate & Political Spin in
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity''s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxins polluted the environment, cancer reared its head downstream and the price of petroleum soared beyond all expectations. As plans continue to build the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines, a growing number of scientists, journalists, First Nations and environmentalists are fighting to raise the alarm about the implications and propaganda surrounding the world''s largest energy project. In his second RMB Manifesto, Jeff Gailus dissects the global war on truth that has come to define the battle for oil. It is a battle fought not with bullets and bombs but with a dark web of Little Black Lies that poses a threat not only to environmental and human health, but to our moral and social well-being.
£16.19
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Ethical Water: Learning to Value What Matters
Book SynopsisFresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened natural landscapes that surround us. And yet, society seems to continually ignore the need for a common-sense approach to--and appreciation of--our freshwater resources and our consumption of this remarkable, life-giving substance that now exceeds its future availability. This ground-breaking and approachable work, by two of Canada''s most authoritative experts on water issues, redefines our relationship with fresh water and outlines the steps we as a society will have to take if we wish to ensure the sustainability of our water supply for future generations.
£16.19
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Treasure Under the Tundra: Canada's Arctic
Book SynopsisIt is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the awesome and seductive radiance of the northern lights. Yet until 1991, no one thought diamonds could even be found in Canada--no one except geologists Chuck Fipke and Stu Blusson, who uncovered diamond-rich kimberlite in the Barrens at Point Lake in the Northwest Territories. Their spectacular discovery caused great excitement in international diamond circles and sparked the largest claim-staking rush in Canada since the 1896 Klondike gold rush. The two geologists sank their lives and savings into their belief that they''d find diamonds in the Barrens, and the story of their quest is a dramatic tale of perseverance in the face of immense odds.
£10.44
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea
Book SynopsisIn the early sixteenth century, the first exploratory ships arrived on the Pacific Coast of North America. These rovers were seeking gold and silver, fur pelts, a safe passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and above all, adventure. Though many of the voyagers didn''t survive the dangerous sea crossings or the perils that awaited them on land, their stories live on in Pioneers of the Pacific Coast. Agnes C. Laut chronicles long-forgotten true stories packed with hazards and surprise. In the 1500s, The Golden Hind breaks into the Pacific Ocean, despite harsh warnings from the Spaniards that it was a closed sea. Years later, the Russian explorer Vitus Bering and his crew are stranded on an island when their ship is caught in a storm. In the 17th century, British Captain Vancouver meets with Spanish Captain Quadra at Nootka Sound to decide who owns the Pacific Coast. All these explorers risked their lives to find out whether this perilous land was worthy of settlement.
£10.44
Otago University Press Standing My Ground: A Voice for Nature
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£23.96
Otago University Press The Face of Nature: An environmental history of
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£30.60
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada The Glittering Mountains of Canada: A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924
Book SynopsisThis then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do that -- but including many of the finest things. It is also a book of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European traveller experienced in the Alps during the Eighteenth Century. Finally, it is a book of mountain history; for here is Geography in the making, and with a tradition behind it -- a story that has never been properly gathered together, and whose details, in part at least, are gone forever. -- from the Preface by J. Monroe Thorington Cloth bound in slipcase. Archival illustrations, photos and maps throughout; 4 panoramic, fold-out plates and 1 large map. Limited to 200 copies. Completely re-edited, re-designed and containing with an impressive collection of archival photos and maps, The Glittering Mountains of Canada is a must-read for anyone interested in mountain literature. The book''s position in the pantheon of outdoor writing as a classic is only further enhanced and supported by the passionate Foreword by well-known mountain historian and environmental writer Robert William Sandford, who urges the contemporary reader to embrace Thorington''s belief in the importance of landscape and the poetry of place. This is a book that deserves to be read and appreciated alongside the work of Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau and Sid Marty.
£999.99
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's
Book SynopsisCold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation about our global environment in a way that transcends traditional scientific journals, textbooks, public talks or newspaper articles that are so often ignored or forgotten. In the end, Cold Matters will change the way you think about ice and snow. The impassioned narrative and sophisticated illustrations found within the pages of Robert Sandford''s latest work offer ecologically and globally minded citizens an understanding of the behaviour of our ever-changing climate system and its effect on cold environments in western Canada over the past 400 years. Using revolutionary prediction scenarios to model glaciers and glacier meltwater in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Yukon, NWT and throughout the world, Cold Matters presents a clear snapshot of how altered ecosystems will impact future climates, urban centres and agricultural landscapes.
£26.34
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto
Book SynopsisAt the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada''s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies in Canada''s ability to feed the urban poor; our dependence on imported foods and centralized food processing; our detachment from our food sources; the often problematic solutions to food security devised by governments, municipalities and non-profit groups; and where we are headed if we change nothing in these times when change is urgently needed. Many efforts are being made to introduce urban agriculture initiatives all across the country, to address the problems we''ve created and to protect our cities from real and potential crises in the food supply. With passion and lyricism, Digging the City addresses the problems facing urban omnivores in the 21st century and looks at various policy, grassroots and utopian solutions being developed and implemented, while considering the pros and cons of plans such as vertical farms, urban fish farms, transition-town initiatives, seed banks, permaculture and water conservation projects.
£16.19
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Finding Jim
Book SynopsisFinding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker''s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the world: skiing the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountaineering in North America. In time, they got married, solidified a home for themselves in Whistler, British Columbia, and planned on starting a family. But the future Susan had imagined was not meant to be, and when Jim was killed in an avalanche in the University Range of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, she was faced with a loss greater than anything she ever could have expected. After Jim''s death, Susan spent time retracing the adventures they took together, in a desperate and obsessive attempt to gather and hold on to as many memories of him as she could. She travelled to the place in Alaska where he lost his life; searched the Queen Charlotte Islands where they had first met; trekked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro where they had journeyed the year before his death; and scoured the hills around their Whistler home for traces of the man she had expected to spend the rest of her life with. In the spirit of books like Joan Didion''sThe Year of Magical Thinking and Maria Coffey''s Fragile Edge, Susan Oakey-Baker writes eloquently of her efforts to relive and reanalyze her husband''s death, to defy the pain that such a loss causes and embrace the healing power of mountains, adventure and wilderness as she reimagines her new life.
£22.09
Caitlin Press Ground-Truthing: Reflections on the Indigenous
Book SynopsisCandid, poetic and forensic, Derrick Stacey Denholm''s book walks the reader slowly and nimbly through the tangle of social, ecological and economic slash piles that dominate BC''s North Coast. Having lived and worked for twenty-five years as both a forestry field worker and a multidisciplinary artist, Denholm brings a rare perspective to how we can work productively and participate ethically in a life that maintains respect for the wild. The book explores a diverse terrain of communities that are as deeply wild as they are highly civilized. Carefully negotiating the conflicting value systems of industrial forestry, the culture of resource towns, the diversity of First Nations history and tradition, the stagnancy of government policy and the Real Work of the rainforest, Denholm gathers the perspectives of more than 150 academics, poets, scientists, journalists, loggers, activists, local citizens and mushroom hunters. He brings together the breadth of the local opinion, personal emotion and technical work that serves to influence the ongoing industrialisation of the wild and human world -- which are one and the same. Local in focus, international in scope and interdisciplinary by necessity, the book provides a dynamic alternate voice to the mainstream cycle of North Coast writing -- which generally serves to memorialise the Euro-Canadian, colonial-settler narrative. Denholm argues that First Nations'' experience and wisdom, taken with the long-standing lessons provided by the wild itself, can provide us all with the models, principles and philosophies needed to live our lives -- and not just in the rainforests of the North Coast of British Columbia, but anywhere.
£14.39
Caitlin Press A World for My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search
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£14.39
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US Groundwater for the 21st Century: A Primer for
Book SynopsisFresh water is one of the essential natural resources on Earth, and groundwater constitutes 98% of the liquid fresh water on the planet. Yet, throughout the world, groundwater resources are being depleted, allocated, squandered, contaminated -- but rarely is their fundamental value to humankind thought about or understood! Groundwater for the 21st Century is an effort to increase the groundwater literacy -- from local to global scales, among laymen, students, and professionals -- of citizens of planet Earth. Groundwater for the 21st Century provides two very important perspectives on the resource -- (a) a thorough yet accessible introduction to basic groundwater science and (b) a current, concise but comprehensive overview of groundwater resources and their importance, uses, status, management, and prospects in today''s world. The book is well organised, substantive, clearly written in accessible language, and richly endowed with numerous illustrations and tables. An overview of the book is provided at www.mwpubco.com/titles/groundwater.htm -- and we especially invite readers to review the Author''s (a) Detailed Table of Contents and (b) Expanded Description, both of which are available at the link provided. Why is this Book Important? Groundwater for the 21st Century is the most comprehensive overview available combining groundwater science and groundwater use by humans, and it has been organised and written specifically for use by a wide range of readers of all ages, places, interests, and nationalities who might wish or need to be informed and literate about freshwater issues. The health, food, financial security, and habitability of homes and communities -- the lives -- of billions of human beings depends upon the availability of sufficient amounts of fresh water. This book provides much material with which to inform readers about the nature of water, its distribution, and its uses and abuses by humans. From this, readers will be better prepared to evaluate their own actions and those of their neighbours, communities, and the hierarchy of decision makers that lead, guide, influence, and otherwise shape the present and future world. Who is this book intended for? Groundwater for the 21st Century is intended for the working bookshelves of a very broad audience of readers. After all, groundwater is of often unrecognised but unquestionably absolute value to all of humankind. That broad audience includes (a) individual readers of diverse ages and backgrounds who will seek out this volume on their own to pro-actively inform themselves of freshwater resources and their importance; (b) those who teach, lead, and direct others with respect to informed natural resource management; and (c) those with more advanced knowledge of the subject who might wish to acquaint themselves with some of the broader aspects or relationships of their speciality.
£32.79
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US Groundwater for the 21st Century: A Primer for
Book SynopsisFresh water is one of the essential natural resources on Earth, and groundwater constitutes 98% of the liquid fresh water on the planet. Yet, throughout the world, groundwater resources are being depleted, allocated, squandered, contaminated -- but rarely is their fundamental value to humankind thought about or understood! Groundwater for the 21st Century is an effort to increase the groundwater literacy -- from local to global scales, among laymen, students, and professionals -- of citizens of planet Earth. Groundwater for the 21st Century provides two very important perspectives on the resource -- (a) a thorough yet accessible introduction to basic groundwater science and (b) a current, concise but comprehensive overview of groundwater resources and their importance, uses, status, management, and prospects in today''s world. The book is well organised, substantive, clearly written in accessible language, and richly endowed with numerous illustrations and tables. An overview of the book is provided at www.mwpubco.com/titles/groundwater.htm -- and we especially invite readers to review the Author''s (a) Detailed Table of Contents and (b) Expanded Description, both of which are available at the link provided. Why is this Book Important? Groundwater for the 21st Century is the most comprehensive overview available combining groundwater science and groundwater use by humans, and it has been organised and written specifically for use by a wide range of readers of all ages, places, interests, and nationalities who might wish or need to be informed and literate about freshwater issues. The health, food, financial security, and habitability of homes and communities -- the lives -- of billions of human beings depends upon the availability of sufficient amounts of fresh water. This book provides much material with which to inform readers about the nature of water, its distribution, and its uses and abuses by humans. From this, readers will be better prepared to evaluate their own actions and those of their neighbours, communities, and the hierarchy of decision makers that lead, guide, influence, and otherwise shape the present and future world. Who is this book intended for? Groundwater for the 21st Century is intended for the working bookshelves of a very broad audience of readers. After all, groundwater is of often unrecognised but unquestionably absolute value to all of humankind. That broad audience includes (a) individual readers of diverse ages and backgrounds who will seek out this volume on their own to pro-actively inform themselves of freshwater resources and their importance; (b) those who teach, lead, and direct others with respect to informed natural resource management; and (c) those with more advanced knowledge of the subject who might wish to acquaint themselves with some of the broader aspects or relationships of their speciality.
£49.59
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US Outdoor Women inside the Forest Service 1971-2018
Book SynopsisThe US Forest Service was established in 1905 and for the following 60-70 years was staffed primarily by men engaged in the production and harvest of timber. Social and economic changes that emerged from the civil rights and environmental movements of the 1960s and 1970s, however, changed the scope and priorities of the service and created opportunities for women to find employment within the agency. Here, career Forest Service employee Lauren Turner offers a brief history of the agency and then profiles the careers of 42 women who have spent most or all of their working lives in that agency. A final chapter provides a frank review of the collective challenges, rewards, and accomplishments of women who have been employed by the Forest Service since the early 1970s. This review is the first of its kind involving women in the Forest Service and, as such, it adds a rich layer to the history of both the agency and that of modern women. In addition, it serves as a beacon to attract and inform young women of today who might themselves be interested in the outdoor, environmentally important work that is undertaken by the Forest Service.
£26.34
Mage Publishers Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748
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£85.00
