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Letters from the Woods: Looking at Life Through the Window of Wilderness
ISBN: 9780976127529 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Thoreau author and adventurer Michael C. Hurley offers insight on life, faith and family as revealed in the wilderness experience. Traveling all over North America and Canada by canoe between 1995 and 2003, often with his young children in tow, Hurley reflects on his experiences in intimate, thought-provoking essays and endearing, campfire tales. First published over eight years in the journal Paddle & Portage, these stories have become a modern classic of wilderness literature, transporting readers deep into the North Woods and along peaceful southern streams. With a...
In the tradition of Thoreau author and adventurer Michael C. Hurley offers insight on life, faith and family as revealed in the wilderness experience....
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My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas
ISBN: 9780820344201 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio ReventazOn, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain's character, Lane isn't escaping. He's getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane's three-hundred-mile float trip takes him down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee... Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio ReventazOn, John Lane sets out wi... |
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Let Them Be Eaten by Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors
ISBN: 9780399161087 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the author's acclaimed Integrated Outdoor Program, 'Let Them Be Eaten by Bears' is Peter Hoffmeister's inspiring guide to getting kids to enjoy and appreciate nature. Drawing from his personal and professional background as an educator, guide, writer, and father, Peter reminds his readers of the adventurous pleasure of the great outdoors. The book teaches why children need nature in their lives, how to begin and continue going on adventures with them, and how to enjoy the process along the way. Combining proof of the need for returning to nature in a country increasingly alarmed by...
Based on the author's acclaimed Integrated Outdoor Program, 'Let Them Be Eaten by Bears' is Peter Hoffmeister's inspiring guide to getting kids to enj...
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The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion
ISBN: 9780870716799 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species"
Robert Michael Pyle s popular Tangled Bank column appeared in fifty-two consecutive issues of "Orion" and "Orion Afield" magazines over eleven years. Each... It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitti...
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Peculiar Work: Writing about Benton MacKaye, Conservation, Community
ISBN: 9780985561406 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peculiar Work gathers selected articles and essays written by Larry Anderson over more than thirty years. Anderson is also the author of Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail (2002), the definitive biography of the visionary American environmentalist best known for his conception of the Appalachian Trail and as a co-founder of The Wilderness Society. In addition to articles about aspects of MacKaye's life and career, this collection includes writing about land conservation, wilderness, hiking, community activism, and small-town politics. In a direct,...
Peculiar Work gathers selected articles and essays written by Larry Anderson over more than thirty years. Anderson is also the author of Benton MacKay...
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The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes
ISBN: 9780472035250 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore---his newest effort---is a beautifully written and elegiac memoir of outdoor discovery. Highly recommended " "Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Al... |
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The Year of the Moon Goose: : Essays and Tidbits from the Banks of Marsh Creek
ISBN: 9781468183252 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of poems, columns, photos and essays by longtime journalist and author T.W. Burger. Terry Burger was born in western Pennsylvania but spent more than 30 years growing up in Athens Ga., with a two-year side-trip to Greenville, Mississippi. He has lived in or near the historic Civil War town of Gettysburg, Pa., since 1985. Before becoming a newspaper reporter at 35, he was an apprentice mortician, concrete mixer driver, garbageman, salesman, laboratory technician and all-around roustabout. He has written professionally since the late 1970s. He lives along Marsh Creek near...
A collection of poems, columns, photos and essays by longtime journalist and author T.W. Burger. Terry Burger was born in western Pennsylvania but spe...
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Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
ISBN: 9781554589234 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental...
Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural co...
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Catskills and Hudson Valley Essays
ISBN: 9780615773117 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry James described John Burroughs as a "more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau." Burroughs's close friend and mentor Walt Whitman called him an "Audubon of prose." Throughout his long writing career, the Catskills and Hudson Valley native infused his writing with images of nature as seen and experienced within his own home region. "Nature comes home to one most when he is at home," he wrote, "the stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcast upon it,...
Henry James described John Burroughs as a "more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau." Burroughs's close friend and mentor Walt Whitman...
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Divine Reflections in Times and Seasons
ISBN: 9780987090584 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Divine Reflections in Times and Seasons explores how everyday phenomena mirror spiritual realities. Readers are encouraged to take a fresh and deep look at the world around them -- to gaze at the glory of a sunrise, the unfolding leaves in the spring, and the starry heavens, for example, and to contemplate the spiritual insights they may receive. The unfathomable reality and divine purpose is far larger than our minds can surmise. But perhaps it can be imagined as a giant holograph wherein each part contains the whole. No matter into how many parts a holograph is subdivided, the... Divine Reflections in Times and Seasons explores how everyday phenomena mirror spiritual realities. Readers are encouraged to take a fresh and deep... |
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So I Can See the Trees: Human Nature in the Maine North Woods
ISBN: 9781482534887 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories of natural and personal discovery in Maine's North woods. There's no nature deficiency in these pages - the author's passion for the Maine Woods is revealed through poetic observation and descriptions of Maine's most historic and beautiful landscapes. Insightful and entertaining. Brings the Maine woods into your living room.
Stories of natural and personal discovery in Maine's North woods. There's no nature deficiency in these pages - the author's passion for the Maine Woo...
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
ISBN: 9781611684889 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ceremonial time" occurs when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ritual dance, this escape from linear time is the vehicle for John Mitchell's extraordinary writing. In this, his most magical book, he traces the life of a single square mile in New England, from the last ice age through years of human history, including bear shamans, colonists, witches, local farmers, and encroaching industrial "parks."
"Ceremonial time" occurs when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ritual dance, this es...
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Unwrapping Wonder: Finding Hope in the Gift of Nature
ISBN: 9780981892986 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking for hope in a hectic world? Here is a delightful mix of natural history, human story and God's glory found in everyday nature. Each chapter focuses on one ordinary natural object, such as the bee, the barnacle, the tiniest seed. Peer within these gifts and discover truths about nature, God, and yourself. A book for men, women, and families who enjoy learning about creation and getting to know the Creator better through the wonders he has made.
Looking for hope in a hectic world? Here is a delightful mix of natural history, human story and God's glory found in everyday nature. Each chapter fo...
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Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780700619443 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to tell how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness and its regulation. Delving into memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Schrepfer especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different...
From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of ou...
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No Bird Lacks Feathers: William Atherton Dupuy's Our Bird Friends and Foes
ISBN: 9781935907046 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Atherton Dupuy managed to combine a career in public service, playing a role in the Department of the Interior, with the writing of a number of books distinguished by the care he gave to selecting artists and orchestrating an unusually close connection between the illustrations and text. His observations on bird life remain both entertaining and insightful.
William Atherton Dupuy managed to combine a career in public service, playing a role in the Department of the Interior, with the writing of a number o...
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African Animal Life: A Memoir 1931-37: Henry Lemieux
ISBN: 9781481913225 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The manuscript for this anecdotal natural history languished in back of a closet for 70 years. Now you can read Henry Lemieux's memories of his time teaching in Sudan, 1931-37. He was fascinated by the animals he encountered and tells the story with amusement. The text is accompanied by photos.
The manuscript for this anecdotal natural history languished in back of a closet for 70 years. Now you can read Henry Lemieux's memories of his time t...
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Reflections on the Neches: A Naturalist's Odyssey Along the Big Thicket's Snow River
ISBN: 9781574415353 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Geraldine Watson's father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years old, she decided to repeat his odyssey in her own backwater boat.
"Reflections on the Neches" is both the story of her journey retracing her father's steps and a natural and social history of the Neches region of the Big Thicket. The Neches, one of the last "wild" rivers in Texas, is now... When Geraldine Watson's father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River...
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The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries
ISBN: 9780892725106 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Eight Little Piggies : Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780099507444 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on our fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. This book deploys this, which is one of the oddities of history.
For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inhe...
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Nature Cure
ISBN: 9780099531821 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor play, nor sustain relationships with family or friends. He was drinking too much, taking too many pills - and worst of all had lost pleasure in the outside world. This remarkable work charts his gradual return to joyfulness.
Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor play, nor sustain relationships with family or fri...
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