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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

Richard B. Primack · University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition

In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. In the 160 years since Thoreau’s...
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Peterson Reference Guides: Birding by Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds

Kevin Karlson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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A highly visual guide to identifying birds in the field based on the important, unchanging features of size, shape, structure, and behavior Birding is an extremely rewarding and fun hobby, but some situations can be frustrating or unsuccessful because of a variety of challenging viewing...
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park

Kim Heacox · Lyons Press

From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild...
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Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life

Piet Oudolf · The Monacelli Press

An intimate look at the personal garden of the Dutch landscape designer renowned for his plantings at the High Line in New York City, and Lurie Garden at Chicagos Millennium Park. Hummelo—near the village of the same name in Gelderland in the eastern Netherlands—is visited by thousands...
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