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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 28,7 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 21 October 2008

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and

• Publisher : Greystone Books
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 July 2009

David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring

• Publisher : UBC Press
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2011

A Passion for Wildlife chronicles the history of the Canadian Wildlife Service and the evolution of Canadian wildlife policy over its first half century. It presents the exploits and accomplishments

• Publisher : Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
• File Size : 39,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

Thomas Jefferson recorded weather observations, experimented with plant species, kept a pet mockingbird, and turned the entry hall at Monticello into a veritable natural history museum with elk and moose

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 20 February 2020

Notwithstanding the importance of modern technology, fieldwork remains vital, not least through helping to inspire and educate the next generation. Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual curiosity, passion, rigour and

• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

Nineteenth-century Americans celebrated nature through many artistic forms, including natural-history writing, landscape painting, landscape design theory, and transcendental philosophy. Although we tend to associate these movements with the nation’s

• Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 October 2017

The Passion of Trees is a collection of photographs taken in Iran and Azerbaijan’s stunning nature. However, this is a collection of nature photographs with a difference. Over the

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 March 2014

This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be

• Publisher : Hypatia Publications
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field.