Nature and the natural world: general interest Books
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Booksurge Publishing The Wild Within Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings
£14.05
Temple University Press,U.S. Exploring Philly Nature
Book SynopsisDo snakes and salamanders fascinate you or make you squeamish? Have you ever listened closely to the birds chirping in your neighborhood? Can you identify the flowers growing in Philadelphia's urban parks? (Moreover, are the mushrooms safe to eat?) Exploring Philly Nature is amateur naturalist, urban herper,* and Grid contributor Bernard Brown's handy guide to experiencing the flora and fauna in Philly.This compact illustrated volume contains 52 activities from birding, (squirrel) fishing, and basement bug-hunting to joining a frog call survey and visiting a mussel hatchery. Brown encourages kids (as well as their parents) to connect with the natural world close to home. Each entry contains information on where and when to participate, what you will need (even if it is only patience), and tips on clubs and organizations to contact for access. The city and its environs contain a multitude of species from the lichen that grows on gravestones or trees to nocturnal animals like opossums,
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Read Books The Life of the Caterpillar
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Read Books The Language And Sentiment Of Flowers
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Read Books Leaves From Gerards Herball
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Read Books Fish Farming For Pleasure and Profit
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Read Books Medicinal Herbs and Poisonous Plants
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Read Books Animal Breeding Plans
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Read Books Breeding Farm Animals
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Read Books The Irish Wolfhound
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Read Books The German Shepherd Dog In Word And Picture
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Read Books The German Shepherd Dog In Word And Picture
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Read Books Heavy Horses Breeds and Management
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Read Books The American Standard Of Perfection A Complete Desription Of All Recognized Varieties Of Fowls
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AuthorHouse Kodiak Tales
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Be a Unicorn Live Life on the Bright Side
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Simon & Schuster The Big Year
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Simon & Schuster Stand Up That Mountain
Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review“Jay Erskine Leutze makes memorable work. He is brilliant at portraying characters (heroes and villains alike) and depicting his stunning setting.” * Cleveland Plain Dealer *
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AuthorHouse Compost
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Chronicle Books You Need More Sleep
Book SynopsisOur feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping, and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they''ve realized that we humans could use some catlike guidance when it comes to handling the ups and downs of life. In this book they''ve condescended to share their invaluable wisdom in short advice columns such as Always Stay at Least 30 Feet from a Loved One and Never Let Anyone Dress You. Whether it''s coping with romance, surviving a social gathering, or clawing your way to the top of the corporate ladder only to realize you can''t get down, the cats in this book will have you relaxed and ready to take on the world! Just after one more nap.
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Chronicle Books Grumpy Cat Flexi Journal with Stickers
Book SynopsisMisery loves company, so jot down miserable musings and highlight them with stickers featuring everyone''s favorite grump.
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Chronicle Books Tiny Cat Flexi Journal
Book SynopsisThe sweetest and smallest pet ever continues her everyday adventures in this playful journal for cat lovers.
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Chronicle Books Beachcombers Companion
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Xlibris Corporation Pilgrimage to the Edge
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AuthorHouse Heritage Pub Walks in the Isle of Man
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Lulu.com Ramblings Jottings Drivelings
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AuthorHouse Pig Tales From Across the Pond
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) The 4000Footers of New Hampshires White Mountains
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Hot Springs State Park Images of America
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History Press Outdoor Tales of Northeast Ohio
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AuthorHouse A Sense of Wonder
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The University of North Carolina Press Attracting Birds in the Carolinas
Book SynopsisCovering the Carolinas from up-country to the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain, this book is an in-depth yet accessible primer on the many ways that Carolinians can attract birds - from large wildlife refuges to private sanctuaries, and from farms to suburban homes and even apartments.
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The University of North Carolina Press Good Walks Rediscovering the Soul of Golf at
Book SynopsisCelebrates the beauty, tradition, and variety of golf across the Carolinas, featuring eighteen beloved courses as experienced by the walking golfer. Attractively illustrated with full-colour photography, each essay tells the story of a course and how it is experienced on foot.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Captivitys Collections Science Natural History
Book SynopsisArgues that the eighteenth century’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade.
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Headline Publishing Group The Last Wilderness
Book SynopsisNeil Ansell''s THE LAST WILDERNESS is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author''s previous book, DEEP COUNTRY, Robert Macfarlane''s THE OLD WAYS or William Atkins THE MOOR.Shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize ''Ansell has the rare skill of combining vividly the intimacy of detail and the astonishing grandeur of this North West coastline of Scotland. Through his keen eyes we look again at the familiar with a sense of wondrous revelation'' Madeleine Bunting ''Beautiful...a testimony to reticent courage'' Daily MailThe experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. He illustrates the impact of Trade ReviewAnsell's beautiful memoir of his walks through the Scottish wilderness makes the case for being truly a part of nature rather than outside of it * Observer *Ansell has the rare skill of combining vividly the intimacy of detail and the astonishing grandeur of this North West coastline of Scotland. Through his keen eyes we look again at the familiar with a sense of wondrous revelation -- Madeleine BuntingThe Last Wilderness is a moving and mesmerising book. Ansell's quiet, respectful immersion in the landscape rewards with some startling encounters with the natural world. He is a knowledgeable and generous guide to the unique flora and fauna of this beautiful corner of Scotland -- James Macdonald Lockhart, author of RAPTORNeil Ansell is a genuine creature of the wild. His knowledge of remote places, and his love for them, come from deep and sustained immersion. He writes in prose which is entirely right for its subject - unshowy, level-headed, quietly surprising. The Last Wilderness is a wonderful experience which tingles with all the sensations of being out on the hill, in all weathers, alone -- Philip MarsdenA beautifully-written account of the author's journeys to some of the most remote parts of Britain in search of solitude and solace * Choice *Beautifully charts the challenges and solaces of being alone and part of nature * Bookseller *Lyrical, thought-provoking * Scotsman *A love letter to Scotland . . . how I wish I could go back to Arisaig and the Small Isles. How much I missed, but how glad I am to experience it now with this wonderful writer * My Weekly *Beautiful...a testimony to reticent courage * Daily Mail *[A] captivating memoir...vivid as photographs, yet sketched with something more profound than simple reportage. Beneath the measured, knowledgeable, unfussy voice is a meaningful, and even important record: not just of a changing landscape, but of a man such places have shaped. -- The HeraldThe Last Wilderness is a beautiful read; rich in descriptive detail... his passion for the environment and his sublime prose make it a book to be savoured. * CultureFly *A hauntingly beautiful memoir on nature, solitude and hearing loss * Waterstones Website, Best books to look out for *He captures the landscape and the sense of adventure exquisitely: enough to make me feel I've been there but leaving me longing to make a trek of my own * The Pool *[A] haunting, lyrical memoir * Simple Things *
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Headline Publishing Group My Family and the Galapagos
Book SynopsisThe Galapagos Islands have captured hearts and captivated imaginations for centuries. Such is their ecological importance that in 1978 the archipelago was declared the first ever World Heritage Site, a testament to our collective desire to preserve the magic and diversity that inspired Darwin. Monty Halls first visited the islands almost twenty years ago and his immediate fascination with their wild beauty would go on to shape the rest of his life.As an explorer, marine biologist, ex-Royal Marine and now President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust, Monty is a passionate advocate for those fighting to save the Galapagos. In 2017, he and his dedicated research team - his wife, Tam, and their two young daughters, Molly and Isla - moved to Santa Cruz to experience just what life is like in the world''s most spectacular tourist destination. As weeks turned into months, the Halls family were in turn spellbound by the beauty of the islands and heartbroken by the devastation that Trade ReviewHalls blends Bill Bryson-esque contextual anecdotes with a genuine earnestness for the subject matter in a manner that is seldom less than endearing. * How It Works Magazine *If you've always dreamt about uprooting your family for an adventure of a lifetime, this book's for you. * The Independent *
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Headline Publishing Group My Family and the Galapagos
Book SynopsisThe Galapagos Islands have captured hearts and captivated imaginations for centuries. Such is their ecological importance that in 1978 the archipelago was declared the first ever World Heritage Site, a testament to our collective desire to preserve the magic and diversity that inspired Darwin. Monty Halls first visited the islands almost twenty years ago and his immediate fascination with their wild beauty would go on to shape the rest of his life.As an explorer, marine biologist, ex-Royal Marine and now President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust, Monty is a passionate advocate for those fighting to save the Galapagos. In 2017, he and his dedicated research team - his wife, Tam, and their two young daughters, Molly and Isla - moved to Santa Cruz to experience just what life is like in the world''s most spectacular tourist destination. As weeks turned into months, the Halls family were in turn spellbound by the beauty of the islands and heartbroken by the devastation that humans are inflicting upon them. One stint there was never going to be enough, and just two years later they found themselves heading back, this time staying on one of the remotest and most challenging islands, diving into the culture of the Galapagos and the desperately needed conservation work taking place there.Written with warmth, humour, and authority, My Family and the Galapagos follows Monty and his family as they navigate life on the most important archipelago on the planet and strive to preserve it for generations to come.Trade ReviewHalls blends Bill Bryson-esque contextual anecdotes with a genuine earnestness for the subject matter in a manner that is seldom less than endearing. * How It Works Magazine *If you've always dreamt about uprooting your family for an adventure of a lifetime, this book's for you. * The Independent *
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Headline Publishing Group The Circling Sky
Book SynopsisFrom a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of HampshireIn the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire, close to where he was born. With beautiful sightings and observations of birds, trees, butterflies, insects and landscape, this is also a reflective memoir on childhood, on the history of one of the most ancient and important natural habitats in the United Kingdom, and on the Gypsies who lived there for centuries - and were subsequently expelled to neighbouring cities. It is also part polemic on our collective and individual responsibility for the land and world in which we live, and how we carTrade ReviewA beautiful evocation of life in a forest and a powerful reminder of the interconnected fate of all wild things, including ourselves * Raynor Winn *Like taking a refreshing and eye-opening walk in the open air with the most interesting, observant and companionable of guides. In The Circling Sky Neil Ansell reveals the remarkableness of the relatively unexotic New Forest, moving deftly from personal reflection to beautiful nature writing, to a crucial, timely argument about the history and importance of common land. * Naomi Ishiguro *Neil Ansell's series of walks in the New Forest through the course of a year coalesce into a skilful exploration of memory, childhood, and how certain landscapes can become an integral part of your life. Ansell is a gifted naturalist, sensitive, inquisitive, at times justly enraged, invariably joyful. The Circling Sky is a wonderful tribute to a unique and precious place * James Macdonald Lockhart *The Circling Sky reads like a vivid and subtle nature programme for your mind's eye. Its New Forest setting is a world within a world; a fragile Eden with an utterly astonishing cast of birds; a unique harbour to an array of species both familiar and unexpected, and a complex, sometimes dark human history. At times it felt like Danny the Champion of the World had grown up, lived an intriguing life, and was now communicating his subtle life philosophy as he walked among the trees. I finished this book sharing its author's desire to look closer, to "walk in peace", and - as he puts it - to "camp without camping", and simply fall sleep beneath a tree. * Damian Le Bas *'Top-class nature writing. The book is a poetic meditation as well as a forthright argument. Ansell is among my most-admired British nature writers' * Rebecca Foster, shinynewbooks.co.uk *Neil Ansell is a wonderful guide...this is a delight of nature writing * Choice magazine *Neil Ansell takes us on a thoughtful journey through the fabulous New Forest. He combines evocative description with an accurate naturalist's eye, in the best tradition of modern British nature writing. * Jeremy Purseglove *His articulate reminiscences and observations on history, wildlife and the changing landscape will make readers reflect on the world around us and our part - individually and collectively - in looking after it * Culturefly *Neil Ansell is a writer of extraordinary sensitivity and insight * climatecultures.net *An immersive delving into the delights of the New Forest. Neil Ansell writes with such warmth and such wonder on the wild - with vital eyes and mind he senses the essence of the world around him, tucked down in the landscape to observe better the life of the natural world * Dr James Canton *His anecdotes gleam * TLS *Beautifully charts the challenges and solaces of being alone and part of nature * Bookseller *[A] captivating memoir...vivid as photographs, yet sketched with something more profound than simple reportage. Beneath the measured, knowledgeable, unfussy voice is a meaningful, and even important record: not just of a changing landscape, but of a man such places have shaped. * The Herald *Ansell's beautiful memoir of his walks through the Scottish wilderness makes the case for being truly a part of nature rather than outside of it * Observer *Neil Ansell is a genuine creature of the wild. His knowledge of remote places, and his love for them, come from deep and sustained immersion. He writes in prose which is entirely right for its subject - unshowy, level-headed, quietly surprising. The Last Wilderness is a wonderful experience which tingles with all the sensations of being out on the hill, in all weathers, alone * Philip Marsden *Ansell has the rare skill of combining vividly the intimacy of detail and the astonishing grandeur of this North West coastline of Scotland. Through his keen eyes we look again at the familiar with a sense of wondrous revelation * Madeleine Bunting *An easy storyteller, with a companionable style. His year in the forest is painterly in its attention to colours...his knowledge of birds is formidable * Herald Magazine *Every foray Ansell makes into the New Forest yields captivating insights * Saga Magazine *
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