The Earth: natural history: general interest Books
Gallery Books Twelve Trees
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£16.99
Scribner Book Company Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland
Book Synopsis*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the NEIBA 2023 New England Book Award* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for the planet “is both an enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action” (Esquire). “I learned something new—and found something amazing—on every page.” —Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo LandA lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth’s survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia’s Great Vasyugan Mire, and America’s Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands—the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is “an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important” (Bill McKibben). “A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring-style warning from one of our greatest novelists.” —The Christian Science Monitor
£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the
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£16.15
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Blue Economy Strategies
£14.86
Global Climate Solutions Blue Finance
£14.63
Molecular Press Petrushka: Proceedings of a Conference on Severe Epidemic Phytonotic Syndrome (SEPS)
£16.56
Monsoon Publishing LLC Sonja LIDL Info@monsoonpublishing.com Forest Elves Coloring Book for Adults: Forest Elven Coloring Book for Adults Elves Coloring Book Forest Forest Animals Coloring Book Grayscale
£8.99
Chris Martin Autumn Through My Eyes Coloring Book
£14.25
Chris Martin Toamna prin ochii mei Carte de colorat
£14.25
Chris Martin Colores de Otoño Libro para colorear
£14.25
Chris Martin Couleurs dAutomne Livre de coloriage
£14.25
£11.68
Noorden Productions Nature Revisited
£22.99
Stonehedges A Stable Lullaby And Other Seasonal Poems
£20.10
Art & Rugby Endeavors Connecting the Waters
£20.69
S.T. Mclaughlin Ecos del Océano
£13.58
Lauxon Publishing From Soil to Silicon
£34.42
Stephen Jones Monarch Butterflies
£11.07
Douglas Geiling Crack for Trout Bums
£12.76
Independently Published The Complete Shrimp Keepers Handbook
£999.99
Independently Published Preventing Wildfires Healing Landscapes and Restoring Ecosystems
£11.58
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Axel The Axolotl Arctic Christmas Wish
£8.92
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Microscopic chronicles beneath the waves
£13.48
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Changing Arctic A Sign of Warning
£14.43
Silent King Books How to Reduce Deforestation by Creating an Artificial and Environmentally Friendly Wood Replacement
£22.46
Sforbes Publishing LLC. Regenerative Agriculture BLUEPRINT for Small Farms
£20.86
Parragon Sticker by Number Nature
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£999.99
Kessinger Publishing The Students Elements Of Geology
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£27.95
Little, Brown Book Group A Wild Life
Book SynopsisThe frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean; the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights of the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas: Martin Hughes-Games has been to every continent on earth filming natural history programmes. A Wild Life is Martin''s personal account of his astonishing adventures around the world, both as a presenter for the BBC and a producer of nature documentaries. We all know Martin as a member of Springwatch and Autumnwatch team, but before his presenting days he spent many years behind the camera producing up-close-and-personal wildlife documentaries on location often in perilous conditions. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has captured the extraordinary life and diversity of the animal kingdom on film - from bloodthirsty bats and man-eating tigers, to huge elephant seals and tiny but ever so painful centipedes.Warmly told with humour and an inimitable styTrade ReviewThese adventures are a repository of joy, despair and cunning success candidly peppered with lovely nuggets of natural history - an absolutely irresistible read * Chris Packham *Fascinating and huge fun to read * Daily Mail *Highly entertaining * Birdwatch *Packed with fascinating tales * Sunday Post *
£10.44
History Press Library Editions Wild Catalina Island: Natural Secrets and
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£27.45
Hatherleigh Press,U.S. The Ocean Lover's Quotation Book: An Inspired
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£11.39
Penguin Random House Group Quotes for All Seasons
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£11.39
Chelsea Green Publishing Co Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash
Book SynopsisOver the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways they live as we do, walking the built-up world and grabbing a bite where they can. Yet this disturbs us. We’ve started fearing gulls for getting good at being among us. We see them as scavengers, not entrepreneurs; ocean-going aliens, not refugees. They are too big for the world they have entered. Their story is our story too. Landfill is the original and compelling story of how in the Anthropocene we have learned about the natural world, named and catalogued it, and then colonized it, planted it, or filled it with our junk. While most other birds have gone in the opposite direction, hiding away from us, some vanishing forever, gulls continue to tell us how the wild can share our world. For these reasons Landfill is the nature book for our times, groundbreaking and genre-bending. Without nostalgia or eulogy, it kicks beneath the littered surface of the things to discover stranger truths. Trade Review“Landfill is an erudite meditation on these former seabirds — in literature, science and culture — and their symbiotic relationship with us within the natural world."—Toronto Star “Landfill is an important and entirely brilliant book. It’s a love letter to gulls and their charged relationship with humans, but it’s also a deep meditation on difficulty and waste, on the beauty of the disregarded, and on what we make of matter out of place. There’s love and death here, fear, fascination, hope, and the breaking of the world. Dee has written an absolute triumph.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk“The British literature of birds that includes Gilbert White with his swifts and martins, Helen Macdonald with her hawks, is a rich one. But Tim Dee’s own obsession with gulls also leads him to contemplate the landfills over which they often preside and the alarming changes to our landscapes with which they are associated. His alertness to factors in ecological health results not in a jeremiad, however, but instead in an exploration of surprising parallels between evolution in the biological realm and the slow siftings of memory and culture. Landfill is a remarkably venturesome, robustly voiced, and illuminating book.”—John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home“Like coyotes, ravens, raccoons, and other resourceful urban wildlife, gulls frequently face our scorn, and sometimes our bullets. In his delightful jaunt through gull taxonomy, behavior, and lore, Tim Dee casts his feathered protagonists as indomitable heroes of the Anthropocene—thriving in our cities, colonizing our culture, and repurposing our trash as treasure. Next time a gull snatches your fries, you’ll find yourself not cursing a petty thief, but admiring one of our planet’s grittiest, savviest survivors.”—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager“Tim Dee’s restive and gorgeous prose pulls readers into the wilds of the modern urban landscape, where gulls and humans wander side-by-side with ancient poets, Victorian novelists, and Madagascar nighthawks. In this small book Dee asks—and beautifully begins to answer—one of the largest questions of our time: How do we live with attentive grace and wisdom alongside the varied coinhabitants of our imperiled, complex, and beloved earth?”—Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Mozart’s Starling and Crow Planet“Evolution is fluid, and the urban gulls of Tim Dee’s Landfill embody this ever-changing world in action. Tracking difficult-to-categorize gulls and the people who know their habits best, Dee alerts us to the heavy-laden meanings we lay on the wings of others, even as he revels the ways in which gulls continue to fly beyond our grasp. Familiarity need not breed contempt. As Dee shows, it can breed fascination.”—Gavin Van Horn, author of The Way of Coyote
£999.99
Workman Publishing Rare Trees: The Fascinating Stories of the
Book SynopsisDiscover the secrets and beauty of the world’s rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 300 color photographs. Did you know that the resin of the dragon tree was so prized that it was used and traded as medicine by the Roman Empire? Or that the Bornean ironwood is one of the only timbers dense enough to sink in water? Trees have adapted to thrive on steep mountains, high in cloud forests, on dry savannahs, in parched deserts, and in tropical wetlands. Our own human history—and our future—are interwoven with the trees that define the character and environments of our green planet. Rare Trees offers a stunning visual presentation of 60 of the most fascinating, bizarre, and threatened tree species on the planet, from conifers to magnolias to oaks. With color photographs showing trees and their most unusual features, maps of growing regions, callouts of memorable facts, and examples of poignant cultural and historical uses by Indigenous populations, Rare Trees will give everyone who loves trees an armchair tour of unique specimens from around the globe. You will be inspired to help preserve this critical canopy of life.
£28.00
Workman Publishing Our National Forests: Stories from America’s Most
Book Synopsis“An inspiring reminder of the incredible resource that is our public lands.” —Brendan Leonard, author of The Camping Life and Surviving the Great Outdoors Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. They welcome 170 million visitors each year to hike, bike, paddle, ski, fish, and hunt. But “the people’s lands” offer more than just recreation. Lost habitats are recovered, timber is harvested, and endangered wildlife is protected as part of the Forest Service’s enduring mission. In Our National Forests, Greg Peters gives an inside look at America’s most important public lands and the people committed to protecting them and ensuring access for all. From the Forest Service growing millions of seedlings in the West each year, to their efforts to save the hellbender salamander in Appalachia, the story spans the breadth of the country and its diverse ecology. And people are at the center, whether the dedicated Forest Service members or the everyday citizens who support and tend to the protected lands near their homes. This complete look at America’s national forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of America's most important public lands.
£21.84
Workman Publishing Cascadia Revealed: A Guide to the Plants,
Book Synopsis“A love poem to the living things that inhabit the mountains and rivers of Washington, coastal Oregon, and southwestern British Columbia.” —Saul Weisberg, executive director, North Cascades Institute More than just a field guide, Cascadia Revealed is the essential trailside reference for naturalists, hikers, and campers. With engaging prose and precise science, Dan Mathews brings the mountains alive with stories of their formation and profiles of the plants, animals, and people that live there. This is the perfect overview to help you discover the wonders of the region. ·Covers the Coast and Cascade Ranges, the Olympic Mountains, the Ranges of Vancouver Island, and the Coast Mountains of southwestern British Columbia ·Describes more than 950 species of plants and animals ·User-friendly, color-coded layout, with helpful keys for easy identification
£22.50
ECW Press,Canada Of Moose And Men: Nearly Everything You Wanted to
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and informative guide to Moose.
£19.79
ECW Press,Canada The River
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£19.79
ECW Press,Canada Field Study
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£21.24
Oneworld Publications Volcanoes: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisAs one of the most fascinating and volatile forces on earth, volcanoes have long been the subject of worship, fear, and study. With the aid of famous 'case histories' Lopes provides a unique background to volcanoes, what they are, why they form, and how they erupt. From the Sunset Crater in Arizona and Krakatau in Indonesia to the exotic volcanoes of the outer solar system this guide illustrates the dangers of volcanoes and their importance in shaping the world around us.Trade Review“We begin with a ‘volcanoes for dummies, very elementary introduction to the subject. It is part of a series of ‘beginners guides’ to just about everything. The author, Rosaly Lopes, is able to make the complicated clear without talking down to her readers. Her professional papers are equally clear. Anyone from the age of 12 on up, who is curious about volcanoes from the [under]groud on up, will find here a plain language guide to a fascinating area of science. From the first chapter: “What are Volcanoes”, to the last: “Exotic Volcanoes of the Outer Solar System, followed by a look at current research techniques. It will make a good gift for a curious teen, a general science teacher, or writer of disaster novels/movies – it will definitely be appreciated.” * Volcanology *
£9.49
Oneworld Publications Planet Earth: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisThe result, Planet Earth: A Beginner’s Guide, is an expedition into the origins, evolution, and workings of our home planet in which John Gribbin does what he does best: takes 4.5 billion years of geological history and digs out the essential bits, from the physics of Newton and the geology of Wegener to the environmentalism of Lovelock. Along the journey, he uses stories from history and more current events to bring the science to a human level. Gribbin's introductory guidebook — very much a first step into geology and geography for the uninitiated — is filled with his lively voice and unique view, as he takes on the subject of the Earth from an astronomer's perspective.
£9.49
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus A Portrait of the Gulf Stream
Book SynopsisThe long term future of the Gulf Stream is now under threat; the Arctic ice is melting and the fear among oceanographers is that the cold water will not sink in the Norwegian Sea, thus switching off this transatlantic heat conveyer. Northern Europe would then freeze, and this apparent paradox - that global warming could bring about a new european ice age - seems to have caught the popular imagination. Orsenna explores the Gulf Stream, its past and its future, both in celebration and in lament of its possible demise.Trade Review'The French author Erik Orsenna 'collects currents' in the way that other people collect butterflies or stamps. He has been in love with them since his childhood in Brehat, an island off the Brittany coast. His book is a personal and somewhat idiosyncratic investigation into the science and myths of currents, in particular the one that gives the United Kingdom and northern Europe a far warmer climate than usual for this latitude - the Gulf Stream. As well as talking to scientists and discussing past attempts to explain these hidden oceanic pathways, he travels to Norway, searching in vain for the mythical whirlpool the Maelstroem. At one point, Orsenna admits 'I am not a scientist, I am a wanderer', and it is clear that the true subject of this book, and the source of his fascination, goes well beyond the merely nautical. At the end he mentions feng shui and Australia's songlines as examples of land-based currents, but one senses that he could have said much more about the way currents resonate throughout literature and our wider culture.' -- PD Smith The Guardian 20100925
£7.59
Patagonia Books The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and
Book SynopsisA Foundational Conservation Story Revived Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, “even the pine tree stood on its own very hills” but when civilization took over, “the mountain oak, the pine were felled.” This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. To this day trees still fulfill these roles for a good portion of the world’s population. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, Egypt, Crete, Greece, Rome, the Islamic World, Western Europe, and North America would have never emerged. Wood, in fact, is the unsung hero of the technological revolution that has brought us from a stone and bone culture to our present age. Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood was the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as A Forest Journey ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics and technology of successive societies over the millennia. The Forest Journey was originally published in 1989 and updated in 2005. The book's comprehensive coverage of the major role forests have played in human life -- told with grace, fluency, imagination, and humor -- gained it recognition as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and as one of Harvard's "One Hundred Great Books." Others receiving the honor include such luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E.O. Wilson. This is a foundational conservation story that should not be lost in the archives. This new, updated and revised edition emphasizes the importance of forests in the fight against global warming and the urgency to protect what remains of the great trees and forests of the world.Trade Review"Like some Greek epic poem spanning 4,000 years of civilization…an impressive array of research and a novel topic."― Los Angeles Times"A journey through time―a sort of Western Civ. 101 with a focus on the crucial role of wood in the rise and fall of states and cultures...Solid survey that adds significant dimension to our picture of the current crisis."― Kirkus Reviews"Like some Greek epic poem spanning 4,000 years of civilization…an impressive array of research and a novel topic."― Los Angeles Times (Previous edition)"A journey through time―a sort of Western Civ. 101 with a focus on the crucial role of wood in the rise and fall of states and cultures...Solid survey that adds significant dimension to our picture of the current crisis."― Kirkus Reviews (previous edition)"Perlin deftly combines a balance of social and ecological values as well as lessons for the immediate future."― John Brosnahan, Booklist (previous edition)"This book takes one those bold imaginative steps through world history that leaves you full of excitement, as suddenly events seem to fall into a pattern for the first time. Perlin not only presents us with a bold hypothesis profusely documented and illustrated, he does it with a story-teller’s pace and ability to surprise."― Book Talks, BBC World Service (previous edition)In that regard one of my favourite books – and a key text on my undergraduate Plants and People module – is John Perlin’s A Forest Journey. Subtitled The Story of Wood and Civilization, Perlin’s big idea is that humans are the way we are, etc. because of our relationship with trees, especially the wood that they produce. It’s a compelling narrative, told in a highly accessible, engaging – and believable! – way. -- Nigel Chaffey, BotanyOne.com (review of a previous edition)“This book takes one of those bold imaginative sweeps through history that leave you full of excitement, as suddenly events seem to fall into a pattern for the first time.” --British Broadcasting Corporation (about a previous edition)Patagonia . . . spiffed up the design and inserted dozens of stunning four-color photos. Recommended for most collections, even if they possess a previous edition. --BooklistOur take: Third time’s the charm. This latest update to the classic book is ready to stand the test of time. There’s so much good material this time around they had to publish 70 pages of endnotes online. Meanwhile the 500-page physical book is packed with hundreds of gorgeous photos and illustrations that depict the history of trees on Earth and their uncertain future. You’ll savor (or worry) over every detail. -- therevelator.orgTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE UPDATED EDITION 7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE PREVIOUS EDITION 9 AUTHOR’S FOREWORD 11 FOREWORD BY LESTER R. BROWN 15 1 INTRODUCTION 25 THE OLD WORLD 2 MESOPOTAMIA 35 3 BRONZE AGE CRETE AND KNOSSOS 44 4 MYCENAEAN GREECE 58 5 CYPRUS 69 6 ARCHAIC, CLASSICAL, AND HELLENISTIC GREECE 75 7 ROME 203 8 THE MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN 131 9 THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC 245 10 ENGLAND 163 EARLY TUDOR 163 ELIZABETH I 171 THE EARLY STUARTS 191 CIVIL WAR TO LATE STUARTS 211 ENGLAND LEAVES THE WOOD AGE 227 THE NEW WORLD 11 MADEIRA, THE WEST INDIES, AND BRAZIL 249 12 AMERICA 263 NEW ENGLAND: DEVELOPMENT 263 NEW ENGLAND: STRATEGIC VALUE 278 NEW ENGLAND: SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE 286 THE THIRTEEN AMERICAN COLONIES 301 AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION 324 NOTES AND COMMENTS 363 EPILOGUE 432 NOTES AND COMMENTS TO THE EPILOGUE 442 INDEX
£999.99
New Vessel Press Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital
Book SynopsisA bold and surprising exploration of how a new digital revolution will transform human ties with the natural world.
£13.49
The University of Chicago Press All the Fish in the Sea
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£26.00
University of Illinois Press Strong Winds and Widow Makers Workers Nature and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An illuminating trek into the forests alongside highclimbers and other logging specialists. More importantly, it’s an examination of how politics, corporate boardrooms, and changing social attitudes and technology left many timber workers on the short end of the stick — and where things stand now. For all we who haven’t worked in the woods — and perhaps even for some who have — 'Strong Wind' is a fact-filled guidebook, with something interesting on every page." --Chinook Observer"Steven Beda's Strong Winds and Widow Makers is a wide-ranging and well-researched history of labor and the environment in Northwest timber country. . . . Beda presents a more nuanced account of the relationship timber workers have forged with the Northwest forests through several generations of living among them." --H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Place in the Forest Part I: Place Chapter 1. “The New Empire” Chapter 2. “The Prodigal Yield of the Surrounding Hills” Chapter 3. “A Goodly Degree of Risk” Part II: Power Chapter 4. “Conservation . . . from the Guys Down Below” Chapter 5. “The Many Uses and Values of Forests” Part III: Problems Chapter 6. “Strong Winds and Widow Makers” Chapter 7. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man” Chapter 8. “We Keep Carbon-Eating Machines Healthy” Acknowledgments Notes Index
£77.35
University of Illinois Press In the Spirit of Wetlands
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Citizen environmentalists will be encouraged by the variety of approaches used to accomplish ecological and developmental goals far beyond this north-central Illinois watershed." --Library Journal"This finely crafted paperback edition is perfect for contemplative evenings and mornings on the porch. Perfect for those times when we need a little inspiration and feel connected and part of something bigger in our natural world. For those of us already involved with wetland conservation and restoration, it can be a much- needed pick- me- up when it seems like nothing is going right and the fight gets a little too burdensome. In this book, you will find the inspiration to keep going, fighting, and surviving." --Outdoor Illinois"Turning the tide against environmental catastrophe has to be a team effort, and not everyone has the time and resources to attempt projects of the scale described in the book. But we all can do something, and I hope this book will provide inspiration for all who follow." -- Community Word“The stories illustrated in this great work are inspiring profiles of pioneers who are taking up the cause of wetland restoration. These guardians are immersed in a cause that affects every living thing in one way or another and should compel all readers to action.”--Doug Schoenrock, President, Ducks Unlimited
£15.19
University of Illinois Press Strong Winds and Widow Makers
Book Synopsis Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest''s environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the complex true story of how and why timber-working communities have concerned themselves with the health and future of the woods surrounding them. Life experiences like hunting, fishing, foraging, and hiking imbued timber country with meanings and values that nurtured a deep sense of place in workers, their families, and their communities. This sense of place in turn shaped ideas about protection that sometimes clashed with the views of environmentalists--or the desires of employers. Beda''s sympathetic, in-depth look at the human beings whose lives are embedded in the woods helps us understand that timber communities fought not just to protect their livelihood, but because they saw the forest as a vital part of themTrade Review"An illuminating trek into the forests alongside highclimbers and other logging specialists. More importantly, it’s an examination of how politics, corporate boardrooms, and changing social attitudes and technology left many timber workers on the short end of the stick — and where things stand now. For all we who haven’t worked in the woods — and perhaps even for some who have — 'Strong Wind' is a fact-filled guidebook, with something interesting on every page." --Chinook Observer"Steven Beda's Strong Winds and Widow Makers is a wide-ranging and well-researched history of labor and the environment in Northwest timber country. . . . Beda presents a more nuanced account of the relationship timber workers have forged with the Northwest forests through several generations of living among them." --H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Place in the Forest Part I: Place Chapter 1. “The New Empire” Chapter 2. “The Prodigal Yield of the Surrounding Hills” Chapter 3. “A Goodly Degree of Risk” Part II: Power Chapter 4. “Conservation . . . from the Guys Down Below” Chapter 5. “The Many Uses and Values of Forests” Part III: Problems Chapter 6. “Strong Winds and Widow Makers” Chapter 7. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man” Chapter 8. “We Keep Carbon-Eating Machines Healthy” Acknowledgments Notes Index
£17.99
