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New Titles - Outdoors & Nature
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Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
Juniper, Tony · Island Press
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
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Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity - but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across... |
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100 Birds to See in Your Lifetime: The Ultimate Wish-List for Birders Everywhere
Chandler, David
Format: Hardcover
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Painstakingly researched, passionately written, and beautifully illustrated, this is the definitive birding guide. With stunningly photographed entries, 100 Birds to See in Your Lifetime offers a treasure trove of information on the world's most unusual, obscure, beautiful, and sought-after... |
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
Ketcham, Christopher · Viking
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild placesThe public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains.... |
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
Blum, Andrew · Ecco
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour through the global network that predicts our weather, the people behind it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planetThe weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones,... |
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Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism
Blumenfeld, Jeff · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's... |
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Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
Andrews, Bryce · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Andrews' wonderful Downfrom the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts...Welcome and impressive work." - Barry Lopez The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what... |
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