Nature category: 119170 books
by Stephen Jay Gould
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1990
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review
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Never Out of Season
How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A Fast Food Nation for the foods we grow and depend on
The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible...
Desert or Paradise
Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lake and Pond Construction
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 5,000 feet above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, and waterways, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, in dramatic contrast to his neighbors' spruce monocultures. Fans of Sepp Holzer...
An Environmental History of the World
Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history,...
A Walk in the Animal Kingdom
Essays on Animals Wild and Tame
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Animals are everywhere in our lives. We follow them into the wild, we invite them into our homes, they inhabit our dreams, mythologies, folklores, and popular cultures. What is this powerful bond? Why are we so fascinated with animals of every kind? And why has our relationship with them always been...
by Marcus Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
“The Countryman's Jewel” is novel by naturalist and nature writer Marcus Woodward. It follows the daily life of a country squire in sixteenth century England, offering an authentic and informative insight into traditional country life. This charming volume is highly recommended for nature lovers...
The Home Place
Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist...
Every Natural Fact
Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting is a narrative of mother-and-son nature outings across the state of Wisconsin. In a style that blends the voices of Janisse Ray and Annie Dillard, a mother and son explore parallels in the world of people and nature. The interconnected chapters...
Deep Woods, Wild Waters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Wait, young Douglas’s grandfather says as the bobber twitches on the surface of Little Lake. Be patient. And so begins an encounter with the promise and wonder of nature that will last a lifetime. Deep Woods, Wild Waters traces the winding path that carried Douglas Wood from one wonder to the next,...
The Odyssey of KP2
An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist's Fight to Save a Species
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the most endangered marine mammal species in U.S. waters, Kauai Pup...
Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in...
The Pine Island Paradox
Making Connections in a Disconnected World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
Can the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit, despite the notion that nature and humans are somehow separate. Moore's essays, deeply felt and often...
Into the Night
Tales of Nocturnal Wildlife Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This entertaining collection of essays from professional scientists and naturalists provides an enlightening look at the lives of field biologists with a passion for the hidden world of nocturnal wildlife. Into the Night explores the harrowing, fascinating, amusing, and largely unheard personal experiences...
by Jerry Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In this remarkable collection of essays and stories, winner of the Best Book of the Year Award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America, Jerry Dennis demonstrates why he has emerged as one of America's finest writers on nature and the outdoors. In prose that has drawn comparisons with John Voelker,...