ilość książek w kategorii: 761
The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man's Battle to Save a Species
ISBN: 9781447203803 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Another extraordinary story of life on a South African game reserve from the authors of The Elephant Whisperer.
Another extraordinary story of life on a South African game reserve from the authors of The Elephant Whisperer.
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56,48 zł |
The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian's Hunt for Sustenance
ISBN: 9781605984124 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While still in high school, Tovar Cerulli experimented with vegetarianism and by the age of twenty, he was a vegan. Ten years later, in the face of declining health, he would find himself picking up a rifle and heading into the woods. Through his personal quest, Tovar Cerulli bridges disparate worldviews and questions moral certainties, challenging both the behavior of many hunters and the illusion of blamelessness maintained by many vegetarians. In this time of intensifying concern over ecological degradation, how do we make peace with the fact that, even in growing organic... While still in high school, Tovar Cerulli experimented with vegetarianism and by the age of twenty, he was a vegan. Ten years later, in the face of... |
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107,71 zł |
An Eagle's Sky: My Life as a Birdman: How I Helped a One-Winged Eagle Fly Again
ISBN: 9780615833248 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,08 zł |
Storie di veterinaria follia: Gli improbabili resoconti di una vita frenetica, passata a stretto contatto con gli esseri viventi più saggi del piane
ISBN: 9781533045188 / Włoski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Le esilaranti, commoventi, emozionanti storie di vita vissuta di un veterinario, dei suoi pazienti pelosi e dei loro proprietari
Le esilaranti, commoventi, emozionanti storie di vita vissuta di un veterinario, dei suoi pazienti pelosi e dei loro proprietari
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24,86 zł |
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
ISBN: 9781250048714 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some... Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustaina... |
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93,98 zł |
Healing Rhinos and Other Souls: The Extraordinary Fortunes of a Bushveld Vet
ISBN: 9781492324928 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,29 zł |
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
ISBN: 9780813562421 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience. Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism--the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent Spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary "great woman," whose work...
In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carso...
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676,35 zł |
Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard: Based On Actual Events
ISBN: 9781492907428 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,11 zł |
The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular Park
ISBN: 9780700619672 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley--and of himself. Seeking to create an alternative to California's Gold Rush social chaos, Hutchings whetted the public enthusiasm for this unspoiled land by mass producing a lithograph of Yosemite Falls, while his Hutchings' California Magazine beat the drum for tourism. But because of his later legal imbroglios over the park, Hutchings was effectively written out of its history, and today he is largely viewed as an opportunist who made a career out of exploiting...
Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley--and of himself. Seeking ...
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159,13 zł |
Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin
ISBN: 9780199342488 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient. From industrial agriculture to nuclear radiation, Bookchin has been at the forefront of every major ecological issue since the very beginning, often proposing a solution before most people even recognized there was a problem. Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin is the first biography of this groundbreaking environmental and political thinker. Author Janet Biehl worked as his collaborator and copyeditor...
Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the m...
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178,40 zł |
Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard Short Stories: Memories
ISBN: 9781495235511 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for taking a look at my book. This is the first volume in the Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard Short Stories Series. This is a follow up book to the original Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard, The First Year. These books are all based on actual events that occured to my family and me while living on a ranch in central Texas. We have lived on what I like to call "The Bigfoot Ranch," for two years now, and continue to live there till this day. We also continue to have activity on a weekly basis, sometimes nightly. So, join me on my journey as I try to explain, describe, and understand the...
Thank you for taking a look at my book. This is the first volume in the Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard Short Stories Series. This is a follow up book to...
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31,36 zł |
Louis Bromfield and His Malabar Farm
ISBN: 9780615766584 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will take you from the birth year of Louis Bromfield, until his dying day in March of 1956. "Louis Bromfield and his Malabar Farm" touches on every aspect from Mr. Bromfield's life as a World War One soldier to his days of entertaining world class guests to changing the agriculture field as we know it today. In this book you will learn what life was like at Malabar, the people who lived there, and how Louis, farm managers, and farm hands revived over 900 acres of land. Explore the halls of the "Big House" and the hills of Malabar Farm as author, Joe James, takes you around the most...
This book will take you from the birth year of Louis Bromfield, until his dying day in March of 1956. "Louis Bromfield and his Malabar Farm" touches o...
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98,08 zł |
A Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres
ISBN: 9781495499579 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Peter Larson, a 44 year old principal at an architectural firm decides to leave his job to restart his family's seventh generation farm near Ithaca, New York, he encounters doubting ghosts of his former self, hundreds of frankenchickens, fifty personable turkeys, three pigs, one enduring friendship, and the true self he has searched for his whole life. Filled with the psychology of change and down to earth stories of farming and homesteading, this is the true story of making the leap so many wish for but dare not.
When Peter Larson, a 44 year old principal at an architectural firm decides to leave his job to restart his family's seventh generation farm near Itha...
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76,06 zł |
Bear in the Back Seat II: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
ISBN: 9780988564374 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second volume in a national best selling series of true stories from " a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormonally-crazed elk, homicidal wild boars, hopelessly timid wolves, and nine million tourists, some of whom are clueless." The first volume was a #9 Wall Street Journal Bestseller in December of 2013. In Kim DeLozier's world, when sedated wild black bears wake up unexpectedly in the back seat of a helicopter in mid-flight, or in his car as he's driving down the highway, or in his office while he's talking on the phone, it's just another day in the...
This is the second volume in a national best selling series of true stories from " a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormona...
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43,93 zł |
Bootstrap Geologist: My Life in Science
ISBN: 9780813060552 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The most innovative figure in marine geology has shared a lifetime of self-growth and challenging adventures in the danger zones between science and politics."--Marlan W. Downey, Bartell Professor of Geoscience, University of Oklahoma, and former president of Arco International "Written in a frank, sometimes earthy style, Bootstrap Geologist leads the reader through life in the Persian Gulf, diving in the Gulf of Mexico, and the bureaucratic constraints of big oil. I couldn t stop reading "--Bruce Purser, emeritus professor, University of Paris "Demonstrates how one can... "The most innovative figure in marine geology has shared a lifetime of self-growth and challenging adventures in the danger zones between science a... |
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167,54 zł |
Animal Encounters
ISBN: 9781496146014 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worlds, far more separated from the natural world than any previous generations of humans. And yet, if we think about it, nearly all of us will realize that even we denizens of the 21st Century have quite a lot of contact with non-human animals, both domesticated and wild, over the course of our lives, and that some of these experiences, especially those that occur when we're young, can be highly significant, even formative. This collection of...
We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worl...
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44,88 zł |
Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness
ISBN: 9781630262747 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 pastime and passion. He spent long, silent hours observing them in the... In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon s conscription. His work would become inextricably...
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175,00 zł |
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
ISBN: 9781476710846 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wild animals, and the necessary damage that can occur when boundaries are crossed" (Tom Groneberg, author of The Secret Life of Cowboys). In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch in southwest Montana. The Sun's twenty thousand acres of rangeland occupy a still-wild corner of southwest Montana--a high valley surrounded...
"Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly...
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76,88 zł |
Pilot in the wild : Flights of conservation and survival
ISBN: 9781431408719 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Bassi has dedicated most of his life to the plight of wildlife in Africa. Raised in north eastern Zimbabwe, he was inspired by a life of living and working in wilderness areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Learning about the cruel realities of war and human greed, he made a vow to devote his life to protecting nature.
John Bassi has dedicated most of his life to the plight of wildlife in Africa. Raised in north eastern Zimbabwe, he was inspired by a life of living a...
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90,06 zł |
Ma Thicket: The Story of Ethel Osborn Hill
ISBN: 9781497482067 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,08 zł |