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A Cabin on Great North Mountain
ISBN: 9781460998755 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After being driven from tent camping by mobile campers with gasoline generators, the Mercer family bought acreage on Great North Mountain near Winchester, VA and built a cabin. The property once the hunting grounds of the Shawnee Indians became their refuge where they might commune with nature and rejuvenate their inner sense of selfsufficiency in the solitude of a mountaintop site.
After being driven from tent camping by mobile campers with gasoline generators, the Mercer family bought acreage on Great North Mountain near Winches...
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41,44 zł |
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Morning Comes to Elk Mountain: Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
ISBN: 9781574415278 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, "Morning Comes to Elk Mountain" is Lantz's response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected beauty of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. A combination of memoir, natural history, Native American history, and geology, this book is enriched by 20 color photos and a map to appeal to the seasoned visitor as well as the newcomer to the refuge.
The national wildlife refuge that's the focus of the book was among the first established by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and... Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, "Morning Comes to Elk Mountain" is Lantz's response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpect...
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184,30 zł |
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British Wildlife: A Photographic Guide to Every Common Species
ISBN: 9780007236831 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive and heavily illustrated guide to every species of British wildlife, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for nature enthusiasts.
A comprehensive and heavily illustrated guide to every species of British wildlife, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for natur...
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86,71 zł |
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Wild: An Elemental Journey
ISBN: 9780141006444 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discusses the author's journey, telling how he went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang his head off in their highlands; met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them; and, how he anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept, ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies.
Discusses the author's journey, telling how he went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang his head off in their highlands; met cannibals infi...
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66,30 zł |
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Encounters with Animals
ISBN: 9780241955833 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here are entertaining accounts of the courtships, wars, & characters of animals encountered in West Africa, South America, Greece, etc., including the stories of Sarah Huggersack, an orphaned baby giant anteater, & Pavlo, a marmoset from Guiana.
Here are entertaining accounts of the courtships, wars, & characters of animals encountered in West Africa, South America, Greece, etc., including the...
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70,52 zł |
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The Whispering Land
ISBN: 9780241955840 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell's 'The Whispering Land' is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the South American wilds.
Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell's 'The Whispering Land' is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the Sout...
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70,52 zł |
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Born Free
ISBN: 9780330518239 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 50 years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself.
50 years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub and r...
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50,99 zł |
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Insect Conservation Biology (Conservation Biology, No 2)
ISBN: 9780412454400 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insects are the major component of the world's biodiversity. By their vast numbers of both species and individuals, they are vital determinants of the terrestrial ecological processes. Quantitatively, insects are important pointers for the species-rich geographical areas. Qualitatively, they are also important, whether the subjects of conservation themselves or as tools for identifying biotic areas with high endemism.
Insects are the major component of the world's biodiversity. By their vast numbers of both species and individuals, they are vital determinants of the...
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771,08 zł |
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Wildlife Search and Rescue
ISBN: 9780470655115 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rescuing wild animals in distress requires a unique set of skills, very different from those used in handling domestic animals. The equipment, degree of handling, the type of caging and level of care a wild animal receives can mean the difference between life and death. Wildlife Search and Rescue is a comprehensive guide on 'best practices' and suggested standards for response to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. This valuable resource covers the fundamentals of wildlife rescue, from 'phone to field', including safe and successful capture strategies, handling and restraint...
Rescuing wild animals in distress requires a unique set of skills, very different from those used in handling domestic animals. The equipment, degree ...
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265,72 zł |
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The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion
ISBN: 9780520206717 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people would feel a great loss if elephants, rhinos, or gorillas were to become extinct, but would we willingly move our families, change our means of earning a living, and disrupt our culture to prevent their extinction? People living in rural Africa are being asked to do just this by the world community. The Myth of Wild Africa explores a joint African/Western approach to conservation with the goal of returning control to the African nations.
Most people would feel a great loss if elephants, rhinos, or gorillas were to become extinct, but would we willingly move our families, change our mea...
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135,71 zł |
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The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
ISBN: 9780520260245 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure ranging from the charismatic and familiar to the obscure and bizarre. These photographs, windows onto the inner lives of pleasure seekers, show two polar bears engaged in a bout of wrestling, hoary marmots taking time for a...
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more sci...
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179,14 zł |
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The Boreal Owl: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of a Forest-Dwelling Predator
ISBN: 9780521113717 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the Boreal Owl's hunting modes, habitats prey interactions, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and conservation.
A study of the Boreal Owl's hunting modes, habitats prey interactions, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and cons...
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626,78 zł |
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Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Confronting Tradeoffs
ISBN: 9780521762984 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiles the issues involved in successful ecosystem-based fisheries management to foster its implementation and further scientific research into the area.
Compiles the issues involved in successful ecosystem-based fisheries management to foster its implementation and further scientific research into the ...
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338,48 zł |
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Animals of the Masai Mara
ISBN: 9780691156019 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the greatest attractions of a trip to Kenya is the chance to see animals such as lions, cheetah, leopards, zebra, and giraffe up close and in their natural habitats. Animals of the Masai Mara is a lavish photographic guide that explores the charismatic wildlife most likely to be encountered by a safari visitor to the Masai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya. More than 140 stunning photographs showcase 65 mammals and 17 reptile species, including 6 snakes. Designed to be informative and locally accurate, rather than purely identification-based, this easy-to-use book pays... One of the greatest attractions of a trip to Kenya is the chance to see animals such as lions, cheetah, leopards, zebra, and giraffe up close and i... |
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152,00 zł |
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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
ISBN: 9780761159131 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . " Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of...
It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . " Written by Nat...
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61,70 zł |
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Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope
ISBN: 9780813921297 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution, and science and romance to show how we create the past and understand the present. Schrire recounts the significance of the palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, and Glynn Isaac addressing a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. She sets pioneering exploration of the globe against... A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves su... |
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95,82 zł |
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Biotic Evolution and Environmental Change in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9781107001305 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The flora and fauna of Southeast Asia are exceptionally diverse. The region includes several terrestrial biodiversity hotspots and is the principal global hotspot for marine diversity, but it also faces the most intense challenges of the current global biodiversity crisis. Providing reviews, syntheses and results of the latest research into Southeast Asian earth and organismal history, this book investigates the history, present and future of the fauna and flora of this bio- and geodiverse region. Leading authorities in the field explore key topics including palaeogeography,...
The flora and fauna of Southeast Asia are exceptionally diverse. The region includes several terrestrial biodiversity hotspots and is the principal gl...
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475,27 zł |
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Evidence from Developing Nations
ISBN: 9781107009356 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and is expected to further double by 2020. Most of this expansion will happen in developing nations. This volume is the first of its kind, providing a comprehensive overview of the biofuel debate in developing countries. The chapters are written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, exposing the key drivers and impacts of biofuel production and use. The book covers impacts as diverse as air pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, energy...
Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and i...
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617,01 zł |
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River Monsters
ISBN: 9781409127383 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 'River Monsters', Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads like a hunt for the Loch Ness Monster. But it's all true. Awe-inspiring creatures like the Sawfish, described as a cross between a shark and a chainsaw, inhabit the real world.
In 'River Monsters', Wade delivers a sometimes jaw-dropping blend of adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. It reads like a hunt for t...
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66,30 zł |
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Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
ISBN: 9781571816979 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with the natural world more generally." - H-Environment The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultivation, wild and domestic animals. Written from an anthropological perspective, this book puts forward...
"Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with ...
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144,14 zł |
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