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"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...
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351 pages ; 24 cm
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"In this essay collection, David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature"--
For more than two decades, Quammen has traveled to Earth's most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back field notes from places caught in the tension between humans and the wild. The essays, originally published in National Geographic magazine and updated for today, tell colorful and impassioned stories from some of the planet's wildest locales....
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Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara in three volumes is an account of the voyage known as the "Novara expedition of 1857—1859" published by Karl Scherzer. The Novara expedition of 1857—1859 was the first large-scale scientific, around-the-world mission of the Austrian Imperial navy. The journey lasted 2 years 3 months, from 30 April 1857 until 30 August 1859. Preparation for the research journey was made...
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58 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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"Nature is all around us to see, hear, and touch--in the leafy woods, by the sparkling water, or simply out the window. What will you discover? A chattering jay hiding an acorn, a butterfly with camouflaged wings? Perhaps a brilliant red feather you'll carry home and tie to your journey stick, to remember. This glorious book invites children outdoors on every kind of adventure, from counting the species in an oak tree to searching the riverbed for...
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Geerat J. Vermeij is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization; Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life; Nature: An Economic History (Princeton); and Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life (Princeton).
From "one of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist),...
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Wilhelm Bölsche (1861/1939) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Obwohl die meisten Schriften Bölsches naturwissenschaftliche Themen behandeln, war er kein Naturwissenschaftler, sondern er hat als Schriftsteller naturwissenschaftliche Themen popularisiert:...
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Debbie Busby is an equine behaviorist with degrees in applied animal behavior and welfare and psychology. She is certified by the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants and runs the website Evolution Equine. Catrin Rutland is associate professor of anatomy and developmental genetics at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK. She writes about science for a number of leading UK newspapers and magazines, including...
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In easy to understand language the essential natural processes of the changing colors of leaves, why trees shed leaves, and how a pond can still freeze and still support life are explained. Learn the key star constellation which signals the end of summer and the growing season. Learn why the moon's of autumn loom so large in the night sky.
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Here is a volume that is true Maine-as eloquent of "downeast" as a bough of fir balsam, as the thunder of a wave of a rocky shore, as the lonely splendor of the northern lights in the sky behind Katahdin. In WHITE PINE AND BLUE WATER has been collected the best of three centuries of fact and fiction written about the wonderful country that is Maine.
The recorded history of this northern land starts in the troubled era when the French and English...
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Richard Lutwyche has been interested in pigs since he was a child, growing up on a farm alongside a herd of pedigree Wessex Saddlebacks. He ran the Gloucestershire Old Spots Pig Breeders' Club, was editor of The Ark magazine for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, and is chief steward and organizer of one of Britain's largest pig shows. He is the author of Pig Keeping and Higgledy-Piggledy and in 2010 received the lifetime achievement award in the BBC...
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Marianne Taylor is a freelance writer, editor, illustrator and photographer. Her books include RSPB British Birds of Prey, The Way of the Hare and Wild Coast: A Celebration of the Places Where Land Meets Sea. David Lindo is a naturalist, writer, broadcaster, speaker, photographer, wildlife tour leader and educator. His books include How to Be an Urban Birder (Princeton).
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading...
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59 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Discover the ancient art of reading outdoor clues. Meet two young adventurers as they discover the ancient art of reading outdoor clues. Join them as they learn to read a full moon, decode the colour of the ocean and forecast the weather with a rainbow, uncovering the secret signs of nature and a world of forgotten skills. With a foreword from naturalist Steve Backshall"--
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Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls 6 feet long, stood 22 feet high at the shoulder, and were twice as heavy as the largest elephant ever recorded, tipping the scales at 44,100 pounds. Fortunately, the big brutes...
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"This history of Sabino Canyon shows like never before why this mountain canyon near Tucson, Arizona, is such a beloved place. With more than 200 images and engaging text, David Wentworth Lazaroff relays [and] relates 100 years of history, revealing how the canyon changed from a little-known oasis into an immensely popular recreation area on the edge of a modern metropolis"--
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From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne, one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and interacted with the Australian biota...
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"A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil...
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"One of Forbes.com's 10 Best Conservation and Environment Books of 2016" Peter P. Marra has written more than 175 scientific publications, is the coeditor of Birds of Two Worlds, and directs the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Chris Santella is the author of many books, including the Fifty Places travel and outdoor series and The Tug Is the Drug. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New...
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"One of Forbes.com's 12 Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016" Donald Kroodsma is professor emeritus of ornithology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a world-renowned authority on birdsong.
A birdsong expert's poignant and beautifully illustrated memoir of a bicycle journey across America with his son
Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to...
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