Nature and the natural world: general interest Books
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Other Family Doctor
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£14.99
Quarto Publishing PLC Fledgling
Book SynopsisRead the powerful account of one woman’s fight to reshape her identity through connection with nature when all normality has fallen away.When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved with her husband to Ghana seven years ago she couldn’t have anticipated how her life would be forever changed by her unexpected encounters with nature and the subsequent bonds she formed.Plucked from the comfort and predictability of her life before, Hannah struggled to establish herself in her new environment, striving to belong in the rural grasslands far away from home.In this challenging situation, she was forced to turn inwards and interrogate her own sense of identity, however in the animal life around her, and in two wild birds in particular, Hannah found a source of solace and a way to reconnect with the world in which she was living.Fledgling is a portrayal of adaptability, resilien
£999.99
Beacon Press Wasting of Borneo Dispatches from a Vanishing
Book SynopsisAcclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of BorneoIn his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain forests of the Amazon and Borneo, documenting both the abundance of life and the threats to these vanishing Edens in a wide-ranging narrative.Alex and his best friend, Davie, spent their formative years in the forest of Bedford, New York. As adults they grew apart, but bonded by the “imaginary jungle” of their childhood, Alex and Davie reunited fifty years later for a trip to a real jungle, in the heart of Borneo. During the intervening years, Alex had become an author and literary journalist, traveling the world to bring to light places, animals, and indigenous cultures in peril. The two reconnect and spend three weeks together on Borneo, one of the most imperiled e
£23.75
Goose Lane Editions Wild Apples
Book SynopsisThere is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which inevitably accompany any attempt to break free of the ties that bind. Simple pleasures abound in these evocative stories, be it fishing on the river, gathering beans for an evening supper (are they beans or has-beens?), or listening to the jukebox at the local diner. Curtis mines the shaft of everyday experiences, turning each one into a meditation on human nature. In the title story, an afternoon drive yields fertile ground as a father and son stop to shake down a gnarled crab apple tree for the sweet-sour orbs of autumn. With a seemingly effortless style, he casts his line into the river of the past, reeling in tales of youthful folly, the Christmastime birth of a little sister, and life on the Miramichi River, which could be any river, anywhere. Curtis also shares his insightTrade Review"Wild Apples is a volume mixed with appropriate portions of nostalgia, memory, and love for a time that will never return." * Daily Gleaner *
£13.49
Goose Lane Editions Of Earthly and River Things An Anglers Memoir
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Poetic prose and microscopic detail combined with thoughtful reflection and vivid storytelling makes Of Earthly and River Things a celebration and hymn of praise. Curtis is a romantic in the best sense. He evokes a gentler past and offers us a refreshing immersion into a life lived deeply connected to the land, the cycles of nature, and currents of a river." -- Sheree Fitch
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions Home Chronicle of a North Country Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Beth's sense of home is not of a static dwelling, but of a place of seasons, cycles, and lifespans, or experiences and memories. This is a book for your soul." -- Freeman Patterson * Telegraph Journal *"Powning takes her camera, her pen and, most important, her spirit into the landscape. . . . The delicate, often beautiful photographs combine with a quietly spirited naturalistic prose in an Annie Dillard-Henry David Thoreau mode to produce a work evocative in both sensual and domestic ways." * Globe and Mail *"Beth Powning's beautiful celebration of natural life is meet and proper for these unnatural times. I think it will be read for years to come." -- E.L. Doctorow
£17.99
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Wildlife of Southern Forests habitat management
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£54.14
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Behavior of the Golden Eagle
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£29.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Fish of the Atlantic Hancock House Fishing
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£8.54
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada New Incubation Book
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£29.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Trees of the West
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£14.39
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Pirate of the Plains Adventures with Prairie
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£18.89
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada 195 Lakes West Vancouver to Stave Falls v 1
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£17.09
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Listening to the Earth
Book SynopsisThe author packs this powerful little book full of insights reflecting his rapport with nature. He views the earth as one stability in our lives that allows us to grasp eternal values from temporal issues.
£8.07
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Waterfowl Care Breeding and Conservation Care
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£22.09
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Flowers at My Feet Western Wildflowers in Legend
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£13.29
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Encyclopedia of the Lories
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£34.84
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Exploring the Upper Yukon River Carmacks to DC
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£13.29
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Exploring the Big Salmon River Quiet Lake to the
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£12.34
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada African Parrots
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Raptors at Risk
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£999.99
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Wings Across The Desert
Book SynopsisA story of experimental crane migration & release.Wings Across the Desert documents a quest to determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long-distance migration and arrive wild enough to survive after release. This fast-moving, and often humorous, odyssey describes the training of tiny crane chicks and then the truck-led convoy of the grown birds on a bone-jarring, backroad migration over the mountains and across the deserts of Arizona. David Ellis'' cranes and his team of unshaven, obsessively dedicated craniacs suffer collisions with powerlines, eagle attacks and close calls with an array or trains, trucks and cars. The mood of this true adventure story varies from playful to mournful as the wonder and harshness of nature imprints the journey''s outcome.
£17.09
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Captive Raptor Management Rehabilitation
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£32.79
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Great Bears of Hyder AK and Stewart BC
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Northwest Mountain Wildflowers
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£10.44
Hancock House Northwest Dryland Wildflowers Northwest
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Northwest Coastal Wildflowers
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Bald Eagle of Alaska BC and Washington
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£13.29
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Captive Birds in Health Disease Gamebirds
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£26.34
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Rocky Mountain Wildlife
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£18.89
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Wildlife of the North
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada My Journal Eagle
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada My Journal Flowers
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£10.44
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Eagles of Hornby Island
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£14.39
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Alaskas Father Goose Captain Gerald A Bud Bodding
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£18.89
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada White Rock Eagles
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£32.79
University of Alberta Press Prairie Water
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Prairie Water will be of interest to regular birdwatchers at the lake as well as visitors." Sandy Campbell (??)
£999.99
Twelveheads Press Scillys Wildlife Heritage
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£6.28
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Rocky Mountain Wildlife
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£82.39
American Traveler Press Easy Field Gde Common Deset Easy Field Guides
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£6.22
American Traveler Press Easy Field Guide Amazing Arizona Puzzles
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£6.22
American Traveler Press Easy Field Guide Arizona Landforms
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£6.22
American Traveler Press Easy Field Guide Poisonous Plants Critters Of
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£6.22
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US Marylands Catoctin Mountain Parks
Book SynopsisThis book provides the most current and comprehensive review available of the natural and human history of the Catoctin Mountain region of Maryland, a part of the beautiful and interesting Blue Ridge physiographic province. The book is divided into three sections. In section one, the author systematically reviews the landforms, waters, weather, plants, animals, and other environmental features of the region, and then reviews how humans have used and modified this mountain landscape. Section two is a detailed guide which provides the reader with maps and descriptive information about the parks -- all of which make reading about or visiting this part of the Blue Ridge an easier, more meaningful, and more satisfying experience. Sources of additional information about the parks and the Catoctin Mountain region are provided in section three.
£14.39
Polperro Heritage Press Jonathan Couchs Cornish Birds
Book SynopsisDr Jonathan Couch was Cornwall's foremost naturalist in the 19th century. This work draws on the Royal Institution of Cornwall's extensive collection of his material, in particular his hitherto unpublished study of Cornish birds and his "Journal of Natural History".Trade Review"Excellent... I have a feeling this book will be selling out fast." Western Morning News "A fascinating insight into the methods of birdwatching in the 19th century." Cornish World
£999.99
Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications Inc Our Ordinary Extraordinary Earth and Its
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£52.79
Summit Studios Moose on the Loose
Book SynopsisTravel brings with it many extraordinary moments--from the whimsical to the hilarious to the downright absurd. By following in the footsteps of previous bestselling humour titles such as Mugged by a Moose and A Beaver is Eating My Canoe, we continue to celebrate more of those moments in Moose on the Loose. Join 26 travel and outdoor writers as they relate their wacky tales of misadventure. If there''s one truth that can be pulled from this collection of stories, it''s that while outlandish things can happen on the road less travelled, there''s no such thing as a bad story!
£18.89
Lone Pine International Birds of Northern California
Book SynopsisLearn about 320 species of Northern California birds in fascinating detail. Descriptions, illustrations and range maps help you identify birds and understand their habits. A checklist helps you keep a list of your birding accomplishments. Perfect for beginner birders and beyond.
£21.59
