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Winter
A Book for the Season
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Feel the force of winter and appreciate its beauty through this collection of the best writing on the season. Classic and contemporary fiction, non-fiction in the form of diaries, history and journals, and historic illustrations show different sides to winter. This is a wonderfully readable anthology...
by Ronnie Clark Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Once home to Native Americans and mountain settlers, Harriman State Park is today a 73-square-mile wilderness and recreation area lying 30 miles north of New York City. Offering over 200 miles of hiking trails, swimming, boating, fishing, and camping, it has been an oasis for city dwellers for 100 years....
Dominion of Bears
Living with Wildlife in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side.
As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between...
The Blue and the Green
A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In The Blue and the Green, anthropologist Jack Stauder analyzes how large-scale political, social, and environmental processes have transformed ranching and rural life in the West. Focusing on the community of Blue, Arizona, Stauder details how the problems of overgrazing, erosion, and environmental...
Elevations
A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river's unique story. Part adventure and part...
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus
Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The beloved explorer Jacques Cousteau witnessed firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea-and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth century. In this magnificent last book, now available for the first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply...
The Cure for Catastrophe
How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how.
Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction...
Earthquake
Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010’s horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite...
Summer Poems
Poems to read while on the beach
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Summer Poems is a book of twenty different poems you can read while on the beach. So pack your bags and travel to the beach to enjoy these twenty poems!
Sources of the River, 2nd Edition
The Artwork of Ray Troll
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous...
Prairie Ghost
Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A Wildlife Management Institute Book
In this lavishly illustrated volume Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one...
by John Illig
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
"Written in the best tradition of literary travel logs, Illig's narrative weaves a rich tapestry of trail culture, the people he meets and the Herculean efforts of Illig's own hiking accomplishment. We not only get the details of how one begins and executes a four-month-long through-hike, but...
Bend to Baja
A Biofuel Powered Surfing and Climbing Road Trip
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Bend to Baja documents a surf-inspired road trip along the West Coast of North America. In February 2005, a group of world-renowned surfers left Ventura, California, for Bend, Oregon. From Oregon, the crew worked its way south to the tip of Baja, looking for waves and traveling in a pickup truck converted...
The Eternal Frontier
An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World).
Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological...