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My First Summer in Sierra
ISBN: 9780486437354 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept while tending sheep formed the heart of this book and eventually lured thousands of Americans to visit Yosemite country.
First published in 1911, My First Summer in the Sierra incorporates the lyrical accounts and sketches he produced during his four-month stay in the Yosemite River Valley and the High Sierra. His record tracks that memorable experience, describing in picturesque terms the majestic vistas, flora and... In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The...
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37,78 zł |
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John Muir: Rediscovering America
ISBN: 9780738203751 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In his stirring biography, Frederick Turner, the distinguished writer and cultural historian, captures the legendary scale of the life of an American icon. Immigrant, inventor, botanist, and founder of the conservation movement, John Muir (1838-1914) truly led those of his time-and now ours-to rediscover the natural beauty of this land. From his harsh childhood in Scotland and on a Wisconsin pioneer farm, to his rugged, solitary explorations all over America and especially in the Sierras, to his passionate battle, in person and in his writings, to save and celebrate our wilderness, Muir was a...
In his stirring biography, Frederick Turner, the distinguished writer and cultural historian, captures the legendary scale of the life of an American ...
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84,38 zł |
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Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment
ISBN: 9780813049359 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. An intimate look at a complex and brilliant woman who had to battle against stereotypes and, in so doing, invented a new form of scientifically based environmentalism. This is a must-read for anyone who truly cares about the real Florida. Lee Irby, author of 7,000 Clams Through a meticulous and beautifully illustrated study of Carr s childhood, education, career ambitions, marriage, and family life, Macdonald shows how Carr overcame numerous obstacles to emerge as one of the leading environmental activists in Florida. Frederick Rowe Davis, author of The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles...
An intimate look at a complex and brilliant woman who had to battle against stereotypes and, in so doing, invented a new form of scientifically based ...
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127,37 zł |
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If There's Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain't Staying : Learning to Make the Perfect Pie -- Sing When You Need to and Find the Way Home with Farmer Evelyn
ISBN: 9780890135839 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Biography (New Mexico subject) and Best Book Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool you. This book is a beautifully written and engaging homage to Evelyn Curtis Losack, a woman farmer and water rights activist from Corrales, New Mexico, a small community on the northern outskirts of Albuquerque. Through the sensitive journalist eye of writer/photographer Stacia Braude-Spragg, this book is a personal introduction to a life well lived, one with conviction, which will have universal appeal.
Winner of the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards for Biography (New Mexico subject) and Best Book Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool y... |
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153,28 zł |
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Audubon : The Kentucky Years
ISBN: 9780813192703 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon. Although his years in the state came long before publication of the monumental Birds of America, he was already painting the scenes from nature that were to make him famous. Audubon: The Kentucky Years is the captivating account of Audubon's sojourn in Kentucky from his arrival in in 1807 as a gregarious twenty-two-year-old storekeeper to his departure in 1819, when his failure in business was about to force him to seek a livelihood from... Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon. Although his yea... |
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112,28 zł |
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Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
ISBN: 9781599219622 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 2015 Reprint] Roger Tory Peterson the Renaissance man who taught Americans the joy of watching birds also invented the modern field guide. His 1934 landmark Field Guide to the Birds was the first book designed to go outdoors and help people identify the elements of nature. This self-proclaimed student of nature combined spectacular writing with detailed illustrations to ultimately publish many other books, winning every possible award and medal for natural science, ornithology, and conservation. Peterson also traveled the world, giving lectures on behalf of the National Audubon Society and,...
2015 Reprint] Roger Tory Peterson the Renaissance man who taught Americans the joy of watching birds also invented the modern field guide. His 1934 l...
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92,65 zł |
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Captain's Log - Uncensored
ISBN: 9781490957487 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,49 zł |
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The Scottish Botanist George Don (1764-1814): His Life and Times, Friends and Family
ISBN: 9781492192619 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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144,40 zł |
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Aldo Leopold : His Life and Work
ISBN: 9780299249045 / Angielski / Miękka / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry.
This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of cons...
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126,42 zł |
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The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton
ISBN: 9780813130040 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he contemplated and wrote about the beauty of his surroundings. Throughout his life, Merton's study of the natural world shaped his spirituality in profound ways, and he was one of the first writers to raise concern about ecological issues that have become critical in recent years. In The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton, author Monica Weis suggests that Merton's...
Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his...
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224,55 zł |
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John James Audubon's Journal of 1826 : The Voyage to The Birds of America
ISBN: 9780803225312 / Angielski / Twarda / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest works of natural history and art of the nineteenth century, The Birds of America. As the record of the interior story of the making of this monumental work, his journal of 1826 is one of the richest documents in the history of American culture.
The first accurate transcription of Audubon's 1826 journal, this edition corrects many of the errors, both intentional and unintentional, found in previous editions. Such errors have obscured the figure of Audubon as a man struggling to realize his... John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest works of natural history and art of the nineteenth century,...
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219,05 zł |
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Generations on the Land : A Conservation Legacy
ISBN: 9781603442411 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. To keep the land in the family . . . To operate the land profitably . . . To leave the land better than they found it . . . Each year, Sand County Foundation's prestigious Leopold Conservation Award recognizes families for leadership in voluntary conservation and ethical land management. In "Generations on the Land: A Conservation Legacy," veteran author and journalist Joe Nick Patoski visits eight of the award-winning families, presenting warm, heartfelt conversations about the families, their beloved land, and a vision for a healthier world. "Generations on the Land" celebrates these...
To keep the land in the family . . . To operate the land profitably . . . To leave the land better than they found it . . . Each year, Sand County Fou...
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118,26 zł |
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Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout : The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist
ISBN: 9780986480829 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist is Dr. Patrick Moore's engaging firsthand account of his many years spent as the ultimate Greenpeace insider, a co-founder and leader in the organization's top committee. Moore explains why, 15 years after co-founding it, he left Greenpeace to establish a more sensible, science-based approach to environmentalism. From energy independence to climate change, genetic engineering to aquaculture, Moore sheds new light on some of the most controversial subjects in the news today.
Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist is Dr. Patrick Moore's engaging firsthand account of his many years spe...
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161,25 zł |
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Where the Willows Grow: The Childhood Diary of Opal Whiteley
ISBN: 9781434103154 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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106,70 zł |
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The Making of Yosemite : James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park
ISBN: 9780700618057 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 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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204,69 zł |
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Light on the Devils : Coming of Age on the Klamath
ISBN: 9780870716119 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. When Louise Wagenknecht's family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked together in the woods and the lumber mills of northern California's Klamath country. Logging and lumber mills, it seemed, would hold communities together forever.
But that booming prosperity would come to an end. Looking back on her teenage years spent along the Klamath River, Louise Wagenknecht recounts a vanishing way of life. She explores the dynamics of family relationships and the contradictions of being female in a western logging town in... When Louise Wagenknecht's family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked tog...
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95,52 zł |
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More Than Birds: Adventurous Lives of North American Naturalists
ISBN: 9781459705586 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation. The fascinating development of natural history studies in North America is portrayed through the life stories of 22 naturalists. The 19th century saw early North American naturalists such as Alexander Wilson, the "Father of American Ornithology," John James Audubon, and Thomas Nuttall describing and illustrating the spectacular flora and fauna they found in the New World. Scientists of the Smithsonian Institution... Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for co... |
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118,15 zł |
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Gas Drilling and the Fracking of a Marriage
ISBN: 9781603811149 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After receiving an offer to lease the farmland of her idyllic childhood summers for natural gas exploration, Stephanie Hamel saw her hitherto strong convictions rattled by dreams of royalties and signing bonuses. With a PhD in environmental health sciences, she could not ignore the possible ill effects of gas drilling and fracturing ("fracking") of the shale beneath the surface. Her decision was complicated further by Pennsylvanias Law of Capture, which would allow energy companies to collect gas from her property via the neighbors well without paying her a dime. Stephanies search for answers...
After receiving an offer to lease the farmland of her idyllic childhood summers for natural gas exploration, Stephanie Hamel saw her hitherto strong c...
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58,88 zł |
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Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
ISBN: 9781609380755 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. John Price's Man Killed by Pheasant is a loving ode to the prairies of the Midwest, to west central Iowa, and to family connections that stretch from his Swedish ancestors to his parents to his wife and children. Throughout he embraces the opportunity, as always, to settle, to remember, and be ready. This quest sounds more portentous than it is once enriched with Price's gentle humor and endearing empathy. Sharing stories of home, secrets of landscape, and binding ties to both, he weaves history and memory to create permanent kinships for himself and for his readers.
John Price's Man Killed by Pheasant is a loving ode to the prairies of the Midwest, to west central Iowa, and to family connections that stretch from ...
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72,78 zł |
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By Hill and Shore in South Kintyre
ISBN: 9781845301125 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For 20 years, since 1991, historian and poet Angus Martin has been documenting in the Kintyre Magazine his observations and experiences while walking the hills and shores of his native Kintyre. This volume - an eclectic mix of natural history, history, archaeology, folklore, and much else, ranging from snippets to mini-essays- comprises a selection of 'By Hill and Shore' from the past 40 issues, plussupplementaryarticles and some 90 illustrations, mostly his own photographs taken duringthe past 30 years. Rich in its evocation of places, people, and creatures great and small, this anthology...
For 20 years, since 1991, historian and poet Angus Martin has been documenting in the Kintyre Magazine his observations and experiences while walking ...
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