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Appalachian Winter
ISBN: 9780822958628 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winter is the season that most tests our mettle. There are the obvious challenges of the weather-freezing rain, wind chill, deep snow, dangerous ice-but also the psychological burdens of waiting for spring and the enduring often false starts that accompany its eventual return. On the surface, perhaps, winter might seem an odd season for a nature book, but there is plenty of beauty and life in the woods if only we know where to look. The stark, white landscape sparkles in the sunshine and glows beneath the moon on crisp, clear nights; the opening up of the forest makes it easy to see long...
Winter is the season that most tests our mettle. There are the obvious challenges of the weather-freezing rain, wind chill, deep snow, dangerous ice-b...
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81,83 |
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A Sense of the American West: An Environmental History Anthology
ISBN: 9780826319135 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology collects fourteen essays on the environmental history of the American West, exploring diverse approaches to environmental history, the western environment before Anglo-American settlement, the radical environmental transformations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the rise of the environmental movement after World War II. The contributions analyze variables of place, process, race, class, gender, and culture. This anthology is ideal for courses on environmental and western history. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Dan Flores, Robert... This anthology collects fourteen essays on the environmental history of the American West, exploring diverse approaches to environmental history, t... |
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119,18 |
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Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest
ISBN: 9780826320117 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the Near Southwest, a bio-region that embraces New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and slices of Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Centuries ago, the Navajos named this region the Horizontal Yellow, a landscape characterized by yellowed grass stretching in all four directions, rivers that drain from the Southern Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico, and human cultures peculiarly adapted to the regional biome. The Horizontal Yellow's piney woods, oak savannahs, blackland prairies, rolling desert plains, desert scrub...
These personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the Near Southwest, a bio-region that embraces New Mexico, Texas, O...
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114,21 |
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The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780826328571 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crawford's thoughtful and witty essays explore his experiences as a farmer, activist and observer in rural New Mexico. In his third non-fiction book he writes, among other topics, about the river which irrigates his land and the animals and plants which touch his life.
Crawford's thoughtful and witty essays explore his experiences as a farmer, activist and observer in rural New Mexico. In his third non-fiction book h...
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59,56 |
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The Land of Little Rain: Facsimile of original 1904 edition
ISBN: 9780865345409 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1903 when "The Land of Little Rain" was first published it became an instant success. It has continued to attract and enchant readers ever since that time, being one of the first books to be written in a popular style about the animals, plants and people of a Southwest desert area.
In 1903 when "The Land of Little Rain" was first published it became an instant success. It has continued to attract and enchant readers ever since th...
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105,26 |
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Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
ISBN: 9780865477315 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today.... In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day tr... |
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113,23 |
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Good Wood: Growth, Loss, and Renewal
ISBN: 9780870711152 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a young man, Steve Radosevich learned to prune trees by watching his grandfather. Working in the apple orchards of the struggling family farm, he saw that "every cut was a decision, conscious and deliberate, about the health of the trees and their coming crops." In Good Wood, Radosevich examines the choices, conscious and unconscious, we make in life and how those choices affect the health of people and places. Good Wood is a clear-eyed, finely hewed collection of personal essays on farming, forestry, and family in the Pacific Northwest. Radosevich draws on his experiences on two...
As a young man, Steve Radosevich learned to prune trees by watching his grandfather. Working in the apple orchards of the struggling family farm, he s...
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Spirit of the Siskiyous: The Journals of a Mountain Naturalist
ISBN: 9780870714498 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For twenty-five years, Mary Paetzel roamed the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon, tracking rare plants and insects and recording her experiences in a series of illustrated journals. A rugged land of peaks, canyons, and rushing rivers, the Siskiyous are renowned for their unusual plant life. Traversing logging roads in an old Volkswagen bus and hiking the high country, this self-taught naturalist came to know the Siskiyous as few ever have. Spirit of the Siskiyous gathers the best of Mary Paetzel's writings along with selections of her paintings and drawings, many in full color. With their...
For twenty-five years, Mary Paetzel roamed the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon, tracking rare plants and insects and recording her experiences i...
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94,33 |
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The Left Hand of Eden: Meditations on Nature and Human Nature
ISBN: 9780870714603 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important contribution to the growing debate over the protection of wilderness areas comes from an unusual perspective -- that of an environmentalist arguing against preservation.
This important contribution to the growing debate over the protection of wilderness areas comes from an unusual perspective -- that of an environmenta...
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74,47 |
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The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness
ISBN: 9780870715235 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part mountaineering adventure story and part spiritual memoir, The Wallowas recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace that wilderness offers. As a student, William Ashworth discovered the Wallowa Mountains in northeast Oregon and they became an obsession. His weekends and vacations were dedicated to exploring this rugged country - roughly the size of Los Angeles and home to 126 peaks, each over 8,000 feet high. In language vivid and precise, Ashworth describes attempts to ascend Eagle Cap, Pete's Point, Sacajaweja, and the Matterhorn. Climbing and camping in summer rain...
Part mountaineering adventure story and part spiritual memoir, The Wallowas recounts a young man's search for the challenges and the solace that wilde...
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74,47 |
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American Nature Writing 1999
ISBN: 9780870715501 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its sixth year, this acclaimed series has become a leading showcase for contemporary nature writing. The annual collections present the best of the genre, highlighting both new and distinguished voices. With this volume, American Nature Writing, published for the past five years by Sierra Club Books, begins a new association with Oregon State University Press.
The eighteen selections gathered here show the rich variety of human responses to natural places. Readers encounter a wide range of settings: a village on the Baja peninsula; the high mountain trails of Glacier National Park in... Now in its sixth year, this acclaimed series has become a leading showcase for contemporary nature writing. The annual collections present the best of...
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59,56 |
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Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature
ISBN: 9780870715532 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Paradise Wild, David Oates addresses this and many other provocative questions as he explores the persistent myth of Eden from several different angles.
As a lifelong mountaineer and reader of nature literature, as a scholar, as a descendant of naturalist William Bartram, and as a gay ex-Baptist who took to the mountains to test his masculinity, Oates has thought deeply about how nature and culture interact in our lives and about the contemporary debate over wilderness and environment. Paradise Wild brings all these elements together in a lively, genre-hopping book that will move... In Paradise Wild, David Oates addresses this and many other provocative questions as he explores the persistent myth of Eden from several different an...
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84,40 |
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On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher's Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout
ISBN: 9780871088925 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In On the Spine of Time, Harry Middleton takes the reader on an unforgettable fishing trip, full of quirky characters, magical streams, and the unique moods of ancient mountains and their hidden world. This book measures up to the extraordinary country it chronicles.
In On the Spine of Time, Harry Middleton takes the reader on an unforgettable fishing trip, full of quirky characters, magical streams, and the unique...
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74,17 |
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A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin
ISBN: 9780874172966 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text investigates professional and popular conceptions as a set of narratives drawn from outside and inside bristlecone pine trees. It reveals the premises of the investigators, the nature of their inquiry and the extent of their knowledge, while also revealing the bristlecone pine itself.
This text investigates professional and popular conceptions as a set of narratives drawn from outside and inside bristlecone pine trees. It reveals th...
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134,07 |
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A Doubtful River
ISBN: 9780874173499 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work reveals the uses and abuses of the Truckee River and documents the continual debates over its distribution to meet diverse demands, ultimately asking the question of what will happen to the rapidly dwindling water supply of the arid West?
This work reveals the uses and abuses of the Truckee River and documents the continual debates over its distribution to meet diverse demands, ultimate...
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198,70 |
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The Flock
ISBN: 9780874173550 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic novel, first published in 1906 and based on Mary Austin's own experiences, captures the way of life of shepherds in the Sierra. Austin blends natural history, politics, and allegory in a genre-blurring narrative, championing local shepherds in their losing battle against the quickly developing tourist business in the Western Sierra during the nineteenth century. Austin had met many shepherds while visiting the Tejon ranches of Edward Beale and Henry Miller, and cultivated relationships with men others often thought of as ignorant, unambitious, and dirty, listening closely to...
This classic novel, first published in 1906 and based on Mary Austin's own experiences, captures the way of life of shepherds in the Sierra. Austin bl...
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Between Grass and Sky : Where I Live and Work
ISBN: 9780874175226 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed nature writer Linda M. Hasselstrom sees herself as a rancher who writes - a self-definition that shapes the tone and content of her writing. Now owner of the cattle ranch where she grew up in western South Dakota, she lives in daily intimate contact with the natural world. As she says, Nature is to me both home and office. Nature is my boss, manager of the branch office - or ranch office - where I toil to convert native grass into meat....If I want to keep my job as well as my home, I pay attention not only to Nature's orders, but to her moods and whims. The essays in this book...
Acclaimed nature writer Linda M. Hasselstrom sees herself as a rancher who writes - a self-definition that shapes the tone and content of her writing....
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99,30 |
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Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty
ISBN: 9780874175233 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century. In these eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas...
Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create ...
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99,30 |
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Earthtones : A Nevada Album
ISBN: 9780874175264 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mention Nevada, and most people think of one of three things: nuclear testing, the feverish glitter of Las Vegas, or a view of drab, endless valleys and barren mountains glimpsed from a car speeding toward California. This title aims to show another side of Nevada combining prose with natural, historical, and anecdotal information
Mention Nevada, and most people think of one of three things: nuclear testing, the feverish glitter of Las Vegas, or a view of drab, endless valleys a...
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104,27 |
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Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work
ISBN: 9780874176278 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the concerns about the effects of ranching on the environment.
A collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the concerns about the effects of ranch...
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69,50 |
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