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The God's Country Naturalist: Reflections on Nature
ISBN: 9780615710839 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The God's Country Naturalist - Reflections on Nature is a collection of essays that showcases the splendor of God's natural creation. Thought-provoking, informative, and entertaining, these essays are meant to inspire the reader to develop a more appreciative understanding of the great gift of nature. From the subarctic tundra of central Alaska to the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona, from spouting geysers in Yellowstone to scenic overlooks in Shenandoah, from deer hunting to bird watching, and from whales to warblers, this book has something for every outdoor enthusiast and lover of...
The God's Country Naturalist - Reflections on Nature is a collection of essays that showcases the splendor of God's natural creation. Thought-provokin...
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64,74 |
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Nature and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781537056432 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays & correspondence and more than 1,500 public lectures and speeches across the United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays & correspondence and speeches encompasses a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom,...
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. He was seen as a cham...
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60,49 |
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Shepherds of Britain - Scenes from Shepherd Life Past and Present
ISBN: 9781473331976 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1892, this fascinating collection of articles relating to the art of shepherding in Britain is a wonderful glimpse into farming in Victorian Britain. Packed full of snapshots of a rural lifestyle in steep decline, with wonderfully titled chapters including, Contentedness of Southdown Shepherds, A Sussex Shepherdess, Lazy Shepherds and an Exception, Sheep Farming in Cumberland, A Curious Usage in the Lake District, The Bone Eater, The Powers of the Collie, the Sheep Dogs of Ireland and many more including plenty of countryside folklore and a brand new introduction of sheep...
First published in 1892, this fascinating collection of articles relating to the art of shepherding in Britain is a wonderful glimpse into farming in ...
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116,49 |
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2016
ISBN: 9781742235035 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Now in its sixth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insights from Australia s brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects and challenges our...
From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't ...
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68,52 |
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Happy The Land
ISBN: 9780892724529 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,81 |
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Roaming the Mountains with John Parris
ISBN: 9780997506907 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Retrace Western North Carolina's cultural and natural history with one of its most beloved storytellers and folklorists, John Parris. Repackaged with an updated cover and back in print for the first time in decades, the Two Hoots Press Heritage Edition includes the complete original text and illustrations of this southern classic. For almost four decades, John Parris' brief yet illuminating non-fiction essays comprised his popular Asheville-Citizen-Times column, -Roaming the Mountains.- When a selection of Parris' columns were first published as this book in 1955, it was an instant... Retrace Western North Carolina's cultural and natural history with one of its most beloved storytellers and folklorists, John Parris. Repackaged wi... |
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73,17 |
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Stepping Off: Rewilding and Belonging in the South-West
ISBN: 9781925164329 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stepping Off is a book for locals and travellers alike. It is the story of the south-western corner of Western Australia: an environmental history, a social history, an invitation to reconnect with the land - and in doing so, to reconnect with ourselves.
Stepping Off is a book for locals and travellers alike. It is the story of the south-western corner of Western Australia: an environmental hist...
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96,30 |
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Tree Lines
ISBN: 9781943859085 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain environments. The drawings and text work together to form a direct artistic encounter with timberline conifers. The husband and wife team of Valerie and Michael Cohen employ a unique process whereby she draws in isolation, gives him her drawings, and he then writes whatever he's inspired to create. Neither offers the other any kind of feedback or instruction. The result is an accessible and deeply engaging work that is also extremely well researched; the...
Tree Lines unites striking ink drawings of high-altitude pine trees with poetic vignettes about how people interact with mountain environments....
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117,50 |
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Curious Encounters with the Natural World: From Grumpy Spiders to Hidden Tigers
ISBN: 9780252082665 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe--and explored their neighborhood--collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From the "necking" battles of mate-hungry giraffes to the breathtaking beauty of millions of monarch butterflies at rest, Jeffords and Post share 200 stunning photographs and their own insightful essays to guide readers on a spectacular journey. Their training as entomologists offers unique perspectives on surprise stag beetle swarms and spider...
Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe--and explored their neighborhood--collecting images of the natural world. This book opens...
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97,90 |
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Walking
ISBN: 9781945644238 / Angielski / Twarda / 42 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.- Henry David Thoreau, noted transcendentalist, wrote Walking as a message of the battle between the importance of nature and the pull of the demands of... -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 i... |
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68,06 |
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The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9780813939513 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. -The Best Read Naturalist- fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections--made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays--reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson's career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the -book of nature, - a more... Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central... |
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308,55 |
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The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9780813939520 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. -The Best Read Naturalist- fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections--made up of sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays--reveal an engagement with natural history that spanned Emerson's career. As we watch him grapple with what he called the -book of nature, - a more... Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central... |
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132,18 |
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Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
ISBN: 9781473335370 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,28 |
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Camping with President Roosevelt
ISBN: 9781473335400 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,38 |
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My Boyhood
ISBN: 9781473335431 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,96 |
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Time and Change
ISBN: 9781473335455 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,28 |
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Under the Maples - The Last Portrait of John Burroughs
ISBN: 9781473335462 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,96 |
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The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
ISBN: 9781473335509 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,38 |
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A Year in the Fields
ISBN: 9781473335516 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,96 |
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Rural Rides
ISBN: 9781473335530 / Angielski / Miękka / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,96 |
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