ilość książek w kategorii: 753
A Visit with Gene Stratton-Porter: One Woman Traveling Show: Living History Series
ISBN: 9781475265262 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a script for a one woman traveling show about Gene Stratton-Porter, a Hoosier author and artist, who was compared to Teddy Roosevelt because of her contribution to the Conservation Movement.
This book is a script for a one woman traveling show about Gene Stratton-Porter, a Hoosier author and artist, who was compared to Teddy Roosevelt beca...
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Restless Fires : Young John Muir's Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68
ISBN: 9780881463927 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Restless Fires provides a detailed rendering of John Muir's thousand-mile walk to the Gulf based on both manuscript and published accounts. Hunt particularly examines the development of Muir's environmental thought as a young adult. The legacy of this walk is found in Muir's perceptive insights generated in part by his background and reading, and by his experience with the Southern environment and its people and plants during the walk. Muir witnessed the Civil War's devastating impacts and efforts towards Reconstruction on towns, villages, and people. This is one of the first books on John...
Restless Fires provides a detailed rendering of John Muir's thousand-mile walk to the Gulf based on both manuscript and published accounts. Hunt parti...
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154,73 zł |
Travels in the Levant: The Observations of Pierre Belon of Le Mans on Many Singularities and Memorable Things Found in Greece, Turkey, Judaea, Egypt, Arabia and Other Foreign Countries (1553)
ISBN: 9781843821960 / Angielski / Miękka / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the entourage of the French Ambassador to Suleiman the Magnificent. En route, he visited Venice, Ragusa, Corfu and Crete, and over the next two years travelled throughout the Ottoman domains, - to Egypt, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Holy Land - returning to France in 1549. Wherever he went, Belon described plants, birds, mammals and fish, and recorded the customs of the inhabitants - what they ate, how they reared their children - collecting information on almost every aspect of the lands through which...
In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the entourage of the French Ambassador to Suleiman the Ma...
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170,61 zł |
And No Birds Sang
ISBN: 9781771000307 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailty, Farley Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The young second lieutenant soon earned the trust of the soldiers under his command, and was known to bend army rules to secure a stout drink, or find warm -- if nonregulation -- clothing. But when Mowat and his regiment engaged with elite German forces in the mountains of Sicily, the optimism of their early days as soldiers was replaced by despair. With a naturalist's eyes and ears, Mowat takes in the full dark depths of war; his moving account of military service, and...
Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailty, Farley Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The young second lieutenan...
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84,42 zł |
At the End of the Ferry
ISBN: 9781624191824 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We are kindred spirits Your book is what my soul has been longing for... peace I love your writing. Reading "At the End of the Ferry" was a delightful glimpse into a world most of us only dream of. My mind truly escaped from the busyness and stress of this life. While I read Suzy's words, I got completely lost...lost in the sound of the waves crashing on the seawall and the smell of homemade soup. It made me want to book a one-way ticket to the peninsula and experience the wonder for myself. But instead I'll just reread "At the End of the Ferry" and get lost again. And again. And again....
"We are kindred spirits Your book is what my soul has been longing for... peace I love your writing. Reading "At the End of the Ferry" was a delight...
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59,19 zł |
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
ISBN: 9781250031693 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inspiring true story of "the Indiana Jones of conservation." --The Guardian (UK) When Lawrence Anthony, author of The Elephant Whisperer, cared for not only elephants but other types of wildlife, including rhinos, on his nature reserve. So when he learned that there were only a handful of northern white rhinos left in the wild, living in an area of the Congo controlled by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army, he was determined to save them from extinction. If the world lost this subspecies of rhinoceros, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly... The inspiring true story of "the Indiana Jones of conservation." --The Guardian (UK) When Lawrence Anthony, author of The Elephant ... |
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114,25 zł |
At the End of the Ferry
ISBN: 9781624196737 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We are kindred spirits Your book is what my soul has been longing for... peace I love your writing. Reading "At the End of the Ferry" was a delightful glimpse into a world most of us only dream of. My mind truly escaped from the busyness and stress of this life. While I read Suzy's words, I got completely lost...lost in the sound of the waves crashing on the seawall and the smell of homemade soup. It made me want to book a one-way ticket to the peninsula and experience the wonder for myself. But instead I'll just reread "At the End of the Ferry" and get lost again. And again. And again....
"We are kindred spirits Your book is what my soul has been longing for... peace I love your writing. Reading "At the End of the Ferry" was a delight...
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99,48 zł |
"Growing Up in Africa: A Short Story of Self Discovery in an Age of Innocence"
ISBN: 9781478311393 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up, Rory was a rebellious, imaginative, spiritual, and lonely child. While he had his family around him, he had very few friends. However, what Rory did have was Africa. His parents left a ravaged, post-World War II Europe with Rory's two brothers before he was born. Rory began his life in East London, South Africa, and left for Southern Rhodesia when he was two years old. Without his family's shared memories of Europe, Rory would be shaped into a man by his new and shocking African surroundings. From the moment the family arrived, Rory realized that he was completely infatuated with...
Growing up, Rory was a rebellious, imaginative, spiritual, and lonely child. While he had his family around him, he had very few friends. However, wha...
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44,21 zł |
Eveningtime: Family Roots, Findhorn, and Finding Home - A Personal Journey
ISBN: 9781482008661 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intimate stories of the personal struggles of a preacher's son coming to terms with major life issues many experience but keep hidden ... in vignettes of free verse. Stories of interwoven lives ... survival of the tragic Siberian Gulag by the Polish parent's of the author's wife, and its continuing affect on all family, including her son and his struggle to avoid deportation for technical but trivialgreen cardoffenses as a troubled juvenile. Intimate stories of the author and his wife's experience of the Findhorn community ... what it meant and continues to mean for their outlook and life...
Intimate stories of the personal struggles of a preacher's son coming to terms with major life issues many experience but keep hidden ... in vignettes...
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57,76 zł |
Lowell Thomas Jr.: Flight to Adventure, Alaska and Beyond
ISBN: 9780882409146 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lowell Thomas Jr. is a famed Alaskan who made his mark as a Bush pilot and by serving in state government, but who also has had a lifetime's worth of adventures that have taken him around the world. Thomas, now eighty-nine, and living in Anchorage, is the son of one of the most widely known Americans of the twentieth century, and his connection to Lowell Thomas Sr. (1892-1981) enabled him to jump-start his life of adventure at a very early age. From the time he was fifteen, Lowell Thomas Jr. has been involved in a series of journeys that have seen him cross paths with many famous lives and...
Lowell Thomas Jr. is a famed Alaskan who made his mark as a Bush pilot and by serving in state government, but who also has had a lifetime's worth of ...
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118,44 zł |
Trying to Work for the M.N.R.
ISBN: 9780994933812 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,64 zł |
Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places
ISBN: 9780803288164 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest. Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging l... |
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80,19 zł |
Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68
ISBN: 9780881463934 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Restless Fires provides a detailed rendering of John Muir's thousand-mile walk to the Gulf based on both manuscript and published accounts. Muir experienced delight in seeing nature anew after recovering from partial blindness due to a factory accident. This is one of the first books on John Muir's thousand-mile walk that places his journey in the context of the Civil War and Reconstruction, to which Muir gave only passing witness. Through these experiences and reflections, Muir came to radical views regarding humankind's relationship to nature, death, and faith. Muir suffered hunger, felt...
Restless Fires provides a detailed rendering of John Muir's thousand-mile walk to the Gulf based on both manuscript and published accounts. Muir exper...
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106,63 zł |
Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness
ISBN: 9781618580252 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies-born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon's conscription. His work would become inextricably entwined with the new world he so proudly adopted in his motto "America, my country." Inspired by the primeval forests and the vast flocks of birds that thrived in them, Audubon spent the next several decades of his life painstakingly documenting the birds of the American wilderness. He traveled the back roads and bayous, searching out and studying the birds that were his...
The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies-born Frenchman arrived in New York C...
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80,19 zł |
The Blue Goose and Me
ISBN: 9781482779066 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Blue Goose and Me" follows the early career of Joe D. White with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System. Joe began his career with the National Wildlife Refuge System in 1961 as the assistant manager on Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on the central gulf coast of Florida where for two years he was introduced to the science and art of habitat and wildlife management, work that produced incredible experiences that accrue to working with wildlife populations and individuals. The next seven years saw him continue to hone his wildlife management skills as...
The "Blue Goose and Me" follows the early career of Joe D. White with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System. Joe began h...
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57,54 zł |
Bird Student: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780292756724 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At thirteen, George Miksch Sutton planned a school of ornithology centered around his collection of bird skins, feathers, bones, nests, eggs, and a prized stuffed crow. As an adult, he became one of the most prominent ornithologists and bird artists of the twentieth century. He describes his metamorphosis from amateur to professional in Bird Student. Born in 1898, Sutton gives us his clearest memories of his boyhood in Nebraska, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, Texas, and West Virginia with his closely knit family. Recognizing birds, identifying them correctly, drawing them, and writing... At thirteen, George Miksch Sutton planned a school of ornithology centered around his collection of bird skins, feathers, bones, nests, eggs, and a... |
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Aliko Mohammad Dangote: The Biography of the Richest Black Person in the World
ISBN: 9781618978851 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MOSHOOD ADEMOLA FAYEMIWO was a newspaper publisher/editor in Nigeria where he grew up but now lives in Chicago. An alumnus of University of Lagos, Nigeria, University of South Florida, and State University of New York, he is author of Who's Who of Africans in America and four published books.. His next book is; Jonathan; The Squandering of Good Luck. MARGIE MARIE NEAL is former university professor, education consultant, and reading coach in Chicago. An alumna of State University of New York, Chicago State University, American College of Education, and University of Illinois at...
MOSHOOD ADEMOLA FAYEMIWO was a newspaper publisher/editor in Nigeria where he grew up but now lives in Chicago. An alumnus of University of Lagos, Nig...
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118,44 zł |
Aliko Mohammad Dangote: The Biography of the Richest Black Person in the World
ISBN: 9781625168085 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MOSHOOD ADEMOLA FAYEMIWO was a newspaper publisher/editor in Nigeria where he grew up but now lives in Chicago. An alumnus of University of Lagos, Nigeria, University of South Florida, and State University of New York, he is author of Who's Who of Africans in America and four published books.. His next book is; Jonathan; The Squandering of Good Luck. MARGIE MARIE NEAL is former university professor, education consultant, and reading coach in Chicago. An alumna of State University of New York, Chicago State University, American College of Education, and University of Illinois at...
MOSHOOD ADEMOLA FAYEMIWO was a newspaper publisher/editor in Nigeria where he grew up but now lives in Chicago. An alumnus of University of Lagos, Nig...
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173,28 zł |
Too Hot to Handle: the Journey of a Soul
ISBN: 9781490390086 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Too Hot to Handle" is an inspirational tale which begins as an historically rich, humorous, factual account of one woman's physical and spiritual battle with corporate giants and governments to save the planet. Along the path, it becomes the journey of a lifetime to discover the answers to the great mysteries of life- Who are we? Why are we here?
"Too Hot to Handle" is an inspirational tale which begins as an historically rich, humorous, factual account of one woman's physical and spiritual bat...
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53,28 zł |
Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology
ISBN: 9780674072558 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic "American Ornithology" established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume "Ornithology, " Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson s pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North American wilderness. Abandoning early ambitions to become a poet in the mold of his... Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic "American Ornithology" establish... |
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160,07 zł |