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Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre
Tim Gallagher · Atria Books Format: Hardcover |
Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds A decade ago Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a centuryan event that caused an international stir Now in Imperial... |
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
David Hone · Bloomsbury SIGMA Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
In the mid-nineteenth century, many dinosaur fossils were found in the United States, especially during the 1870s and 1880s "Bone Wars." Paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh discovered dozens of skeletons, but in 1905, fossil hunter Barnum Brown named... |
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Born To Be Wild: Hundreds of free nature activities for families
Hattie Garlick · Bloomsbury Natural History Pages: 256 Format: Print book |
Want to save cash, your child's imagination, and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need. Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a child's... |
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Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
Michael Forsberg · University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition |
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North... |
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