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Robert Mac Farlane
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2007]
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Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. Illustrated. aAn eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though weare laying waste the... more
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Henry David Thoreau
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2013]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile... more
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James Herriot
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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Twenty years ago, St. Martin's Press published a volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian named James Herriot. Its title was "All Creatures Great and Small." Within a year, the book had become recognized as a masterpiece. In the two decades that have followed, James Herriot has become one... more
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Annie Proulx
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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"Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald... more
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James Herriot
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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James Herriot's final work and last in his beloved series of animal stories This fifth and final of James Herriot's heartwarming story collections brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvelously eccentric vet Calum... more
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James Herriot
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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The second volume in the beloved series of memoirs of life in the Yorkshire Dales by the world's most celebrated animal doctor. This delightful volume contains the stories begun in All Creatures Great and Small. Two years ago when we published James Herriot's" All Creatures Great and Small," we called... more
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James Herriot
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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The world's most beloved veterinarian offers a third volume in his classic series of tales of life in the Yorkshire Dales--the warm and joyful sequel to All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. James Herriot is probably the most beloved living writer. When" All Things Bright... more
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John Muir ,
Edward Hoagland
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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A stirring tribute to one of Americas most remote and beautiful places by one of the first modern preservationists This Penguin ClassicMuirs first bookputs a pioneering conservationists passion for nature in high relief. With a poets sensitivity and a naturalists eye, Muir celebrates the Sierra Nevada, which he dedicated his... more
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Stephen Daubert
[Ebook, Pdf 2006]
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In these stories Steve Daubert pulls the reader into the mystery and immediacy of ecological processes - great moments in evolution, and You Are There! From vanishing neon flying squids to dinosaur habitat upheavals-by-earthquake, each tale brings the reader into the moment to witness an episode of survival in the... more
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Charles Darwin ,
Richard Darwin Keynes ,
R D Keynes
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelog that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy. The Beagle Diary was used to write Darwin's famous book... more
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Paul Thompson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Description: As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable development. In The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and... more
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Laurie Lawlor
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in southeastern Wisconsin--a landscape of abundant and sometimes inaccessible beauty that has often been ignored, misunderstood, and threatened by human destruction. In her decade-long personal wetland journey, she examines... more
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John Burroughs
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of outdoor nature with a... more
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Jerry Sullivan ,
Victor M Cassidy ,
Bobby Sutton
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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A selection of savvy observations on urban ecology from one of the Midwest's foremost authorities on the subject, "Hunting for Frogs on Elston" collects the best of naturalist Jerry Sullivan's weekly "Field & Street" columns, originally published in the "Chicago Reader," Engaging, opinionated, inspiring, and occasionally irreverent, "Hunting for Frogs... more
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Henry David Thoreau ,
St World Library
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Description: When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my... more
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Henry David Thoreau ,
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[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Description: I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement,... more
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Mary Austin ,
Terry Williams
[Ebook, Adobe epub 1997]
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Description: A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) breathes life into the desert landscape,... more
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John R Knott
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Description: Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early nineteenth century to the present. Our... more
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Henry Thoreau ,
Abigail Rorer ,
Bradley Dean
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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Description: Henry David Thoreau has long been revered for his writings and observations on the natural world. His words evoke his environment with stunning clarity as well as his own innate sense of wonder. His journal, from which the text of Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches is drawn, shares... more
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Oliver A Houck
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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An extended meditation on a lively slip of river wilderness abutting the Mississippi River The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called "the batture." On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity... more
