Nature and the natural world: general interest Books
University of Nebraska Press Artifacts and Illuminations
Book SynopsisLoren Eiseley (1907–77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing.Trade Review"Past and future readings of Eiseley have been illuminated by this profound and expansive collection of essays. Anyone with a fondness for Eiseley or the journey of the American nature writing tradition will find Artifacts and Illuminations of immense interest."—Frank Izaguirre, Ecozon@Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher1. "The Bay of Broken Things": The Experience of Loss in the Work of Loren Eiseley Susan Hanson2. "Never Going to Cease My Wandering": Loren Eiseley and the American Hobo M. Catherine Downs3. "The Places Below": Mapping the Invisible Universe in Loren Eiseley's Plains Essays Susan N. Maher4. Unearthing Urban Nature: Loren Eiseley's Explorations of City and Suburb Michael A. Bryson5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay: Loren Eiseley's Representations of Animals Kathleen Boardman6. "The Borders between Us": Loren Eiseley's Ecopoetics Tom Lynch7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life: Loren Eiseley's Rhetoric of Profundity in Popular Science Writing and "Two Cultures" Pedagogy Pamela Gossin8. Artifact and Idea: Loren Eiseley's Poetic Undermining of C. P. Snow Mary Ellen Pitts9. The Spirit of Synecdoche: Order and Chaos Contend in the Metaphors of Loren Eiseley Jacqueline Cason10. In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption Anthony Lioi11. Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions Jonathan Weidenbaum12. Epic Narratives of Evolution: John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley Stephen Mercier13. Eiseley and Jung: Structuralism's Invisible Pyramid John Nizalowski14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley Transplanted Dimitri N. BreschinskyWorks CitedContributorsIndex
£28.80
University of Nebraska Press Native American Environmentalism Land Spirit and
Book SynopsisCountering the inclination to associate indigenous peoples with "wilderness" or to conflate everything "Indian" with a vague sense of the ecological, this book shows how Indian communities were forced to migrate to make way for the nation's "wilderness" parks in the nineteenth century.Trade Review"This volume offers a unique study of environmentalism and the author shows great respect for Native Americans and their beliefs and proclaims that they have much to teach wider society."—Library Journal"In an era when environmental problems are growing in number and severity, this interdisciplinary book is timely for examining humanity's place in nature by scrutinizing in historical and comparative perspective the spiritual ecology of Native Americans. . . . Porter lays some of the crucial foundation for a fundamental rethinking of the vital interrelationships between religion and nature for the sake of creating a far more sustainable, just, peaceful, and spiritual society. Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Joy Porter's Land and Spirit in Native America effectively challenges the empty rhetoric and wishful thinking about pan-Indian holism, spirituality, and place. In its place Porter offers a nuanced, grounded, and insightful investigation of the role of spirit and land in a range of tribal localities and uses an equally wide range of modalities to remind us the ways in which American Indian tribes have experienced and expressed the relationship of place and person in the last two hundred years. Excellent, insightful, and considered--a valuable addition to the field."—David Treuer, professor of English at University of Minnesota, Leech Lake Reservation"I'm glad Joy Porter has written masterfully about this matter of continuity in Land and Spirit in Native America."—Simon Ortiz, author of Woven Stone, From Sand Creek, and Out There SomewhereTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Approaches to Spirituality, Tradition, Land, Wilderness, Nature, Landscape, and Place2. On Middle Way Thinking, Gardening, Parks, and Aspects of Indian Thinking about Land3. Spiritual Approaches to Life in America4. Literature, Land, and Spirit5. Art, Land, and Spirit6. Environmental Justice, Place, and Indian "Sacrifice"7. Vanishing, Reappearing, and Disappearing Indians on American Soil8. Future Directions Into and Out of the WildNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Stanford University Press The California Deserts
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
£17.99
Philosophical Library Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
£10.40
Beacon Press Nature and Walking
Book SynopsisTogether in one volume, Emerson''s Nature and Thoreau''s Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
£12.74
Beacon Press Our Hands Hold Violence
£14.44
Beacon Press The Radiant Lives of Animals
Book SynopsisWinner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature AwardFrom a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package.Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect with the spirit of the world. From her modest forest home in Colorado, and venturing throughout the region, especially to her beloved Oklahoma, she introduces us to horses, packrats, snakes, mountain lions, elks, wolves, bees, and so many others whose presence has changed her life. In this illuminating collection of essays and poems, lightly sprinkled with elegant drawings, Hogan draws on many Native nations’ ancient stories an
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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
Beacon Press The Drowning of Money Island A Forgotten
Book SynopsisOffers a glimpse of the future of vanishing shorelines in America in the age of climate change, where the wealthy will be able to remain the longest while the poor will be forced to leave.Journalist Andrew Lewis chronicles the struggle of his New Jersey hometown to rebuild their ravaged homes in the face of the same environmental stresses and governmental neglect that are endangering coastal areas throughout the United States. Lewis grew up on the Bayshore, a 40-mile stretch of Delaware Bay beaches, marshland, and fishing hamlets at the southern end of New Jersey, whose working-class community is fighting to retain their place in a country that has left them behind. The Bayshore, like so many rural places in the US, is under immense pressure from a combination of severe economic decline, industry loss, and regulation. But it is also contending with one of the fastest rates of sea level rise on the planet and the aftereffects of one of the most destructive hurricanes in A
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Beacon Press Walden With An Introduction And Annotations By
Book SynopsisIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibbenBill McKibben gives us Thoreau's Walden as the gospel of the present moment, as a neccessary book because it is useful right now.--Robert Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau, A Life of the Mind and Emerson: The Mind on Fire“We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin ‘from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,’ he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our perilous moment in time.”—Bill McKibben, from the introductionFirst published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire
£12.34
Louisiana State University Press Game Warden
Book SynopsisOutdoors writer Jerald Horst spent one year riding on patrol with game wardens in the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. In riveting episodes, he chronicles their adventures, providing an up-close view of this demanding job and the band of men who take it on.
£29.95
Louisiana State University Press A Field Guide to the Ferns and Lycophytes of
Book SynopsisAny appreciation of Louisiana's beautiful outdoors must include the lush variety of the state's ferns and lycophytes. With illustrations and colour photographs accompanying a description of more than sixty varieties, this guide offers an engaging reference for all levels of interest and expertise.
£17.56
Louisiana State University Press Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies
Book SynopsisThe first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental humanities research to cultural analyses of the US South. Sixteen essays examine novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad range of ecological topics related to the region.
£38.66
Louisiana State University Press Adventures of a Louisiana Birder
Book SynopsisThis candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana's avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of 300 species of birds.
£30.56
Louisiana State University Press Swamp Souths
Book SynopsisExpands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. This evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales.
£42.26
Louisiana State University Press Brown Pelican
Book SynopsisTells the story of humanity’s complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. Brown Pelican combines history and first-person narrative to complicate, deconstruct, and reassemble our vision of the bird, the natural world, and ourselves.
£18.95
LSU Press Interrogating Travel
Book SynopsisNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world, has the human cost of trekking the globe become too high?
£24.65
LSU Press Adventures of a Louisiana Birder
Book SynopsisA candid and humorous chronicle showing how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana’s avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of 300 species of birds.
£20.85
George Braziller Inc Love in the Garden
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The University of North Carolina Press The Coasts of Carolina Seaside to Sound Country
Book SynopsisThis captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. It offers an inviting visual and textual portrait organized around coastal themes such as nature, fishing, and community life, with an emphasis on particular places and seasons.
£33.75
The University of North Carolina Press A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Re
Book SynopsisFeaturing over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide focuses on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Georgia. It is arranged by habitat, with colour tabs to facilitate easy browsing of the nine different natural communities whose plants are described.
£28.45
Hill & Wang The Organic Machine
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£13.41
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Flowering Plants Asteraceae Part 3
Book SynopsisThe third and final volume in botanist Robert H. Mohlenbrock's comprehensive sequence of books on the aster family in Illinois. In this volume, Mohlenbrock identifies 128 species in 49 genera with 11 hybrids and 57 lesser taxa. He provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its uses, if applicable.
£27.71
Scarecrow Press The A to Z of Environmentalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis dictionary is a succinct, timely addition to the ongoing discourse about the environment. . . . What sets this resource apart from many similar contemporary works is the richness of its bibliography. . . . Recommended. * CHOICE, March 2010 *
£40.50
New Directions Publishing Corporation Cicada
Book SynopsisThe celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural worldTrade Review"These poems are dynamic in their visual and linguistic movement, “the agitation the ecstasy in life the ego that ricochets within the body the body within the world naked filled with emotions.” Giannisi turns the quotidian into the magical in poems that push against the shifting present moment." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Cicada, Phoebe Giannisi’s second collection to appear in English translation, offers a vibrant lyric consideration of metamorphosis, mortality, and poetry as song, all centered around the figure of the shapeshifting insect…A heightened sense of wonder, borne from a recognition of the transitory nature of life itself, pervades this collection." -- Heather Green - Poetry"Giannisi is unquestionably herself within a vanguard of Greek poets for whom self-awareness and honesty have become second nature." -- Shon Arieh-Lerer - World Literature Today"Sneeden is a meticulous translator and a poet in his own right. He brings Phoebe Giannisi’s work to life with immediacy and conviction." -- Edmund Keeley"Giannisi’s work glitters with such fragments: minimal, direct and dense with loss." -- Max Sydney Smith - Review31"Beautifully translated...The book resounds with an "alien voice from the fence of the teeth." Alien, not only because it is the song of the cicadas that is constantly evoked and lurks from underneath the pages..., but even more so because the voice here belongs to all sorts of beings, especially the non-human ones." " -- Cristina Pérez Díaz - Asymptote"An intimate and utterly feminine perspective on language and regeneration." -- Jessica Gigot - The New York Times
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation Kitchen Music
Book SynopsisA cosmology of place written in the songs of whales and birds, folk tales, city streets, and the green glass seaTrade Review"Praise for Blue Pearl: It is full of whalebones and wind and melting ice, and it left me breathless." -- Nina Powles - Poetry"You cannot help thinking that this is what all poetry should do—find the truth in things, not beneath them—and how it should be produced: sensitively and with love." -- Andrew McCulloch - Times Literary Supplement"With meditations on whale hunts and lost children, Manhattan sky towers, and the sound of the gamelan in the Gulf of Bothnia, this collection is both expansive in scope and beautifully sparse in its language. Every word is savored, creating moments of stunning lyricism and powerful silence." -- Michael Welch - Chicago Review of Books"A book of poems, a book of voices. A book that is also a map, an almanac, a report - of histories, of stories, of lands and waters. A book of poems made and arranged in such a way as to create harbours and enclosures: the contained order of narrative brought to a wild scattering of events; a careful arrangement of whale bones on a gallery floor to tell the tale of that great singing creature now stilled to silence." -- Kirsty Gunn"This is a book of precise and uncompromisingly beautiful writing about northern place: Orkney, Iceland, far seas of the imagination. A few words, brilliant and disquieting in choice and cadence, transport the reader to distant islands and their weather. As you read, you are alone in a remote stone house at nightfall, with the wind rising from the sea below the windows." -- Peter Davidson"A great poem consists of alternate measures of words and silence; and in the greatest work the silence is as important as the words to which it gave birth. Lesley Harrison is a writer of consistent brilliance, who with just a handful of words can conjure song from silence. These are warnings, elegies and celebrations... Kitchen Music is a meticulously crafted Northern Hymnal...a brilliantly conceived orison to the flora and fauna of the higher latitudes. This collection is essential reading for anyone keen to understand why poetry remains a unique force for change on this planet." -- John Glenday"Her work exists on the border between language of natural clarity and human silence, where white space buffs against stanza to produce its own music. … Like the whale, which serves as the cetaceous heart of this book, Harrison’s primary mode of communication is sound, whether it be daylight or rain clouds, old prayer or the birth of a new island." -- Connor Harrison - Chicago Review of Books"The poems evoke a color palette of slate, sea glass, and silvered green, and float in a soft-focus reverie." -- Sylee Gore - Poetry Foundation
£13.49
Stackpole Books City Trees ID Guide to Urban Suburban Species
Book SynopsisCovers "all" the common trees, even nonnative ones that might not be found in other guides.
£12.30
Stackpole Books Pocketguide to Eastern Wetlands
Book SynopsisMore than 200 plants, trees and shrubs, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds commonly found in eastern wetland habitats are featured in this detailed field guide.
£14.20
Stackpole Books Tracks Sign of Reptiles Amphibians A Guide to
Book SynopsisLibrary Journal wrote that Mammal Tracks & Sign "will set the standard for years to come and is essential to anyone interested in tracking this continent's mammals." This new book in the Tracks & Sign series aims to set the same standard for reptile and amphibian tracking. It's an invaluable resource for both beginning and experienced trackers. Fea
£29.96
Stackpole Books Naturally Curious Day by Day
Book SynopsisThis follow-up to Naturally Curious, a National Outdoor Book Award winner, is a day-by-day account of nature observations throughout the year. Daily entries includes entertaining and enlightening observations about specific animal or plant activity.
£29.75
Stackpole Books Camera Trapping Guide
Book SynopsisUsing an inexpensive, heat-detecting camera, you can view and photograph wildlife up close. Camera Trapping Guide gives you the techniques and knowledgeâof both the cameras and the animalsâto get the best possible photos and videos. Includes 41 species common to the eastern US, from squirrels to bears, deer, and mooseâeven the American alligator.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Mammals (Mammalia) Order Didelphimorphia Family Didelphidae 1 Virginia Opossum Order Lagomorpha Family Leporidae 2 Eastern Cottontail 3 Snowshoe Hare Order Rodentia Family Sciuridae 4 Eastern Gray Squirrel 5 Red Squirrel 6 Woodchuck 7 Eastern Chipmunk 8 Flying Squirrels Family Castoridae 9 North American Beaver Family Cricetidae 10 Common Muskrat 11 Meadow Vole 12 Deer Mice Family Erethizontidae 13 North American Porcupine Order Carnivora Family Canidae 14 Eastern Coyote 15 Wolf 16 Gray Fox 17 Red Fox Family Ursidae 18 Black Bear Family Procyonidae 19 Raccoon Family Mustelidae 20 Fisher 21 American Marten 22 Weasels 23 North American River Otter 24 American Mink 25 American Badger Family Felidae 26 Bobcat 27 Canada Lynx 28 Cougar Order Artiodactyla Family Cervidae 29 White-tailed Deer 30 Moose 31 Elk Birds (Aves) Order Galliformes Family Phasianidae 32 Wild Turkey 33 Ruffed Grouse Order Pelecaniformes Family Ardeidae 34 Great Blue Heron Order Apodiformes Family Trochilidae 35 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Order Piciformes Family Picidae 36 Pileated Woodpecker Reptiles (Reptilia) Order Crocodilia Family Alligatoridae 37 American Alligator Bibliography Index
£21.25
Stackpole Books Grand Canyon A Visitors Companion National Park
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£14.20
Stackpole Books Yellowstone A Visitors Companion National Park
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£11.35
Stackpole Books Pocketguide to New York Hatches
Book SynopsisDetailed hatch charts, color photos of each insect, and recipes and photos of the author's recommended fly patterns for each hatch.
£16.10
Stackpole Books Fine Art Flower Photography Creative Techniques
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£18.00
Stackpole Books Naturalists Guide to Observing Nature
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£13.46
Stackpole Books How to Keep a Naturalists Notebook
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£18.00
Stackpole Books How Long Things Live and How They Live as Long as
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£12.30
Globe Pequot Press Bobcats Before Breakfast
Book SynopsisBobcats Before Breakfast is the firsthand account of a twentieth century naturalist, guide, hunter, trapper, woodsman who spent more than forty years living with and off the land. With grit and zeal this self-taught naturalist gathered knowledge about how animals live and shared his findings leading hikes and survival classes at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, NH. Kulish's daily routine was to rise before dawn, get out into the woods, and track, observe, and record his findings on deer, otters, beaver, wildcatsall before breakfast. I'm still not sure whether I learned to understand people because they are so much like wild animals, or wild animals because they are so much like people, wrote Kulish.Trade ReviewJohn Kulish was legendary. His spirit of adventure, deep curiosity, and love for all things wild lives on in the work of the Harris Center, where we continue to walk in John’s tracks, teaching people of all ages about the natural world. -- Susie Spikol, Community Programs Coordinator and Teacher-Naturalist, The Harris Center for Conservation EducationAs the remarkable account of one man's extraordinary commitment to the natural world, Bobcats Before Breakfast stands alone. -- Mark Reynolds
£11.69
Stackpole Books Near Woods
Book SynopsisThe four seasons are captured in prose and photographs as Kevin Patrick takes to the woods near his home, weaving natural history with human experience to create a geography of place to stand for all similar near-woods places.
£24.00
Chronicle Books The Cloud Collectors Handbook
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£15.26
University of Pennsylvania Press Bashan and I
Book SynopsisThe moving story of Thomas Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. "The life of a dog is a simple and strangely marvelous thing; and that finally may be what sets Bashan and I apart: it is true to the life of a dog."-Gary Amdahl, Ruminator ReviewTrade Review"Termed the finest study of the mind of a dog ever written, a few boldly assert that it is no doubt one of the greatest portrayals of a man's mind. . . . An extremely lovable story. . . . An enchanting classic." * New York Times *"The life of a dog is a simple and strangely marvelous thing; and that finally may be what sets Bashan and I apart: it is true to the life of a dog." * Gary Amdahl, Ruminator Review *
£17.99
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Journal of Light The Visual Diary of a Florida
Book SynopsisJohn Moran travels the Sunshine State with his cameras, seeking his vision of natural Florida as it must have appeared to Ponce de Leon and other early strangers in paradise. This collection of images and essays celebrates the magic of a landscape born of water.Trade ReviewFor residents, a reminder of Florida's enormous capacity for natural majesty; for tourists, it's a remarkable souvenir of the mystique of a rare place.... Moran's essays resonate with an honesty and compassion that fully inform the art behind the photographic technique. His words express a sensibility that is as authentic as it is admirable.... [A] subjective ode of wonder and affection and art. - Bill Belleville, author of River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River
£27.50
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida 30 EcoTrips in Florida
Book SynopsisIf you long for less-trafficked authentic adventures amid Florida's developed natural areas, this is a guide to finding them, and enjoying them responsibly. Divided into four specific geographic regions covering the entire state from the Panhandle to the Lower Keys, it provides an overview of each.Trade Review"30 EcoTrips in Florida is an important tool for anyone who wants to explore 'the real Florida.' It contains the information needed to plan nature travel anywhere in the state." - Brad Manley, Brevard Environmentally Endangered Lands program"
£16.10
University Press of Florida Florida Weather and Climate
Book SynopsisExplores the conditions, forces, and processes behind Florida's surprisingly varied and dynamic weather. The authors discuss Florida's location, landscape, and population, as well as the position of the sun and the importance of evaporation and condensation.Trade ReviewA valuable introductory resource for any individual investigating Florida's weather and weather systems."" - Choice
£31.17
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Floridas Healing Waters
Book SynopsisFilled with rare photographs, vintage postcards and advertisements, and fascinating writing from over 100 years ago, Florida's Healing Waters spotlights a little-known time in Florida history when tourists poured into the state in search of good health.
£25.60
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United
Book SynopsisThe first complete field guide to the exotic amphibians and reptiles established in the continental United States and Hawaii, this volume covers 74 species that are not native to the country and 29 species that are native but occur beyond their original geographic range.
£41.36
University Press of Florida Forces of Nature A History of Florida Land
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive history, Clay Henderson celebrates the individuals and organizations who made the Sunshine State a leader in state-funded conservation and land preservation.
£30.35
