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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

NOT AVAILABLE. · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking." - Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"The one account I've read that solves...
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

Akiko Busch · Penguin Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's HOW TO DISAPPEAR explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed worldIn our increasingly networked...
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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life

Doug Bock Clark · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brinkExtraordinary praise from a chorus of New York Times bestselling authors: "I absolutely loved this magnificent book." --Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm. "A monumental...
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Imagining the Atacama Desert: A Five-Hundred-Year Journey of Discovery

Richard Francaviglia · University of Utah Press
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover

Widely regarded as the driest place on earth, the seemingly desolate Atacama Desert of Chile is a place steeped in intrigue and haunted by collective memories. This book, based on archival research and the author's personal field experiences, brings together the works of geographers,...
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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

Lauren E. Oakes · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming worldSeveral years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this...
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Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution

Anurag Agrawal · Princeton University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much...
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Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature

MAmos Clifford · Conari Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present, with all of our senses, in a forest or other wild area, can produce mental, emotional, and physical health benefits. It is a simple, accessible antidote to our nature-starved lives and can inspire...
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