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Connemara and Elsewhere
ISBN: 9781908996374 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The kernel of this diverting book, edited by Jane Conroy, is a photographic essay by the French photographer Nicolas Feve. 'Browsing Connemara' is threaded through with texts drawn from Tim Robinson's incomparable travel books, the 'Connemara Trilogy'. Robinson is a cartographer from Yorkshire who has been for many years mapping that remote, Irish-speaking region near the western seaboard. The text and photographs are introduced by American ecologist John Elder. The book closes with the treat of 'Elsewhere', three new short pieces from Tim Robinson.
The kernel of this diverting book, edited by Jane Conroy, is a photographic essay by the French photographer Nicolas Feve. 'Browsing Connemara' is thr...
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144,35 |
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Walking/Wild Apples
ISBN: 9781502894052 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhab...
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24,08 |
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In the Wilderness
ISBN: 9781503055087 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating classic nature text contains the following titles: HOW I KILLED A BEAR, LOST IN THE WOODS, A FIGHT WITH A TROUT and others.
This fascinating classic nature text contains the following titles: HOW I KILLED A BEAR, LOST IN THE WOODS, A FIGHT WITH A TROUT and others.
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23,67 |
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Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life
ISBN: 9780816696789 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2016 Minnesota Book Award Winner for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Consider your place, the place where you feel the most at home: a tree-lined lake, a bean field planted on stolen land, a rig drilling the golden prairie, city streets alive with energy. Written in the language of the northern landscape of experience, Karen Babine explores the meaning of being in your place on a particular day.In essays that travel from the wildness of Lake Superior to the order of an apple orchard, Babine traces an ethic of place, a way to understand the essence of inhabiting a place... 2016 Minnesota Book Award Winner for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Consider your place, the place where you feel the most at home: a tre... |
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68,52 |
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The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness
ISBN: 9781611687200 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered the creation of the world's first national park system. Told via Mitchell's sometimes disastrous and humorous travels--from the gardens of southern Italy up through Tuscany and the lake island gardens--the book is filled with history, folklore, myths, and legends of Western Europe, including a detailed history of the labyrinth, a common element in Renaissance gardens. In his attempt to understand the Italian garden in detail, Mitchell set out...
This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered...
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97,95 |
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Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9780874179637 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the humanistic social sciences explore connections between the current and unprecedented rise of environmental degradation, economic inequality, and widespread social injustice in the United States and Canada.
The authors challenge prevailing cultural narratives that separate ecological and human health from the impacts of modern industrial capitalism. Essay themes range from how human survival is... This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from...
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137,09 |
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Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
ISBN: 9780762796502 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.
Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natur...
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73,03 |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing
ISBN: 9780544286740 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series The Best American Series |
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84,74 |
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Return of the Gar
ISBN: 9781574415995 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimidating size and plethora of teeth have made it demonized throughout its range in North America, resulting in needless killing. Massive oil spills in its breeding range have not helped its population either. Interspersing science, folklore, history, and action-packed fishing narratives, Spitzer's empathy for and fascination with this air-breathing, armored fish provides for an entertaining odyssey that examines management efforts to preserve and...
The alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimida...
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102,81 |
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About Orchids
ISBN: 9781507595510 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About Orchids is a classic gardening guide by Frederick Boyle. "I thank you for reminding your readers, by reference to my humble work, that the delight of growing orchids and flower gardening can be enjoyed by persons of very modest fortune. To spread that knowledge is my contribution to philanthropy, and I make bold to say that it ranks as high as some which are commended from pulpits and platforms."
About Orchids is a classic gardening guide by Frederick Boyle. "I thank you for reminding your readers, by reference to my humble work, that the delig...
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27,31 |
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Into Woods
ISBN: 9781608935130 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, family, and place, it begins with his honeymoon on a wine farm in France's Loire Valley and closes with the birth of his daughter and he and his wife's return to their beloved Maine. These essays blend journalism, memoir, personal narrative, nature writing, cultural criticism, and insight into a flowing narrative of place, a meditation on being and belonging, love and death, wonder and foreboding.
Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, f...
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61,81 |
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Walden (Illustrated Edition)
ISBN: 9781633847453 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With 18 Full Color Photos!
Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreaus sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walden was written with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreaus other goals, and the whole project was inspired by Transcendentalist philosophy. This book is full of fascinating musings and reflections. As pertinent and relevant... With 18 Full Color Photos!
Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreaus sojourn in a c... |
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87,08 |
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Hurley's Journal
ISBN: 9780996190107 / Angielski / Twarda / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A modern classic of wilderness literature, Hurley's Journal was written and published quarterly by Michael Hurley from 1995 to 2003. It began as a kitchen-table gazette that Hurley produced for a few family and friends as an excuse to go canoe-camping all over North America with his children, but it quickly grew into a literary gem cherished by more than 10,000 paying subscribers in 48 states and overseas. The journal provided not only practical advice but celebrated the romance, lore, and wisdom of life in the wilderness in award-winning prose. The original issues are now collectors' items...
A modern classic of wilderness literature, Hurley's Journal was written and published quarterly by Michael Hurley from 1995 to 2003. It began as a kit...
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192,49 |
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Walden: and The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781511555326 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walden is a book written by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experience, spiritual journey of discovery, satire, and self-sufficiency manual. Published in 1854, it details the Thoreau experiences over two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst a forest of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Walden is a book written by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experience, ...
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48,51 |
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Light in the Trees
ISBN: 9780896729513 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "From the book"
At the end of our visit in the big snow, I hiked the mountain behind Dad s house with my brother, stepping into his size 13 footprints. With trail signposts long buried, we kept to the main road, a route once used for logging. Although almost every trip home included this steep climb, I d never hiked it in two feet of snow. The muffled whiteness made it difficult to tell how far we d come, how much farther we had to go. More than once I sat on a log saying I d stay there and wait for Ken, whose long strides made it look easy, to go up without me. Each time I did this, he... "From the book"
At the end of our visit in the big snow, I hiked the mountain behind Dad s house with my brother, stepping into his size 13 footpr... |
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134,87 |
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Light in the Trees
ISBN: 9780896729520 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "From the book"
At the end of our visit in the big snow, I hiked the mountain behind Dad s house with my brother, stepping into his size 13 footprints. With trail signposts long buried, we kept to the main road, a route once used for logging. Although almost every trip home included this steep climb, I d never hiked it in two feet of snow. The muffled whiteness made it difficult to tell how far we d come, how much farther we had to go. More than once I sat on a log saying I d stay there and wait for Ken, whose long strides made it look easy, to go up without me. Each time I did this, he... "From the book"
At the end of our visit in the big snow, I hiked the mountain behind Dad s house with my brother, stepping into his size 13 footpr... |
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96,15 |
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Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire
ISBN: 9780816693078 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science, the elements are now what we build our houses against. Their renunciation has fostered only estrangement from the material world. The essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism show how elemental materiality precipitates new engagements with the ecological. Here the... For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love ... |
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386,93 |
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Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire
ISBN: 9780816693092 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science, the elements are now what we build our houses against. Their renunciation has fostered only estrangement from the material world. The essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism show how elemental materiality precipitates new engagements with the ecological. Here the... For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love ... |
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102,81 |
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Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta
ISBN: 9780817318857 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Among the Swamp People" is the story of author Watt Key s discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The swamp consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the delta s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters by turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and reckless who live, thrive, and...
"Among the Swamp People" is the story of author Watt Key s discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The swamp consists of almost 260,000 acres of w...
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122,40 |
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H Is for Hawk
ISBN: 9780802124739 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New... One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#... |
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69,36 |
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