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Macdonald combines some of her best loved essays with new pieces. Her topics range from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, she writes about the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. -- adapted from jacket
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[2022]
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204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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"The Naturalist's Companion provides skills and guidance on how to increase awareness in nature to enable readers to observe animals. The author covers stealth walking, calling, tracking, interpreting animal behavior, understanding seasonal cycles, and more"--
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"Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of Natural Acts, curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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323 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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In this beguiling work Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests--that promise ways of using nature without damaging it.
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Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic guide to the park, Tim McNulty invites us into the natural and human history of these nearly million acres, from remote headwaters to roadside waterfalls, from shipwreck sites to Native American historical...
18) North with the spring: a naturalist's record of a 17,000-mile journey with the North American spring
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American seasons volume 1
Pub. Date
[1990?]
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xxvi, 358 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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American seasons volume 4
Pub. Date
[1990?]
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xxviii, 370 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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American seasons volume 3
Pub. Date
[1990?]
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xxiv, 386 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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