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New Titles - Outdoors & Nature
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Brenda Maddox · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting... |
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Craig & Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
CRAIG GROSSI · William Morrow
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America together, "spreading the message of stubborn positivity."In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine... |
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On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award "The best outdoors book of the year" - Sierra Club A New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2016 - as chosen by The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Amazon, National Post, The Telegraph, BOOKLIST , The Guardian Bookshop,... |
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The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
Wendell Berry · Counterpoint
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"Berry's essays, continuing arguments begun in The Unsettling of America 40 years ago, will be familiar to longtime readers, blending his farm work with his interests in literature old and new . . . Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers." -- Kirkus Reviews... |
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Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Britt Wray · Greystone Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.A captivating whirlwind tour through the birth and early life of the scientific idea known as "de-extinction." - Beth... |
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee · Crown
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s.... |
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Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Harrison Allen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires - forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation - that explains the science of what is causing them and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest... |
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Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
David Philipps · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's history of wild horses in America -- and an eye-opening story of their treatment in our own time.The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know what it stands for: fierce independence, unbridled... |
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