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The Rough Guide to Tanzania & Zanzibar: Travel Guide with eBook (Rough Guides Main Series)

Rough Guides - Rough Guides
Format: Paperback

This Tanzania & Zanzibar guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground....
 
 
Cradle of Conservation: An Environmental History of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania History)

Allen Dieterich-Ward - Pennsylvania Historical Association
Format: Paperback

From the origins of "Penn's Woods" to the controversial practice of fracking, Cradle of Conservation provides the first comprehensive study of Pennsylvania's environmental history. The story starts with forester Ralph Brock at the dawn of the conservation era and continues...
 
 
The Rough Guide to Oman: Travel Guide with eBook (Rough Guides Main Series)

Rough Guides - Rough Guides
Format: Paperback

This Oman guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. And this Oman travel...
 
 
A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils

Paul M. Barrett - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated and definitive crash course on dinosaur fossils, from the Allosaurus that use their teeth and jaws to dismember prey to the Sinosauropteryx specimen that confirmed the existence of feathered dinosaurs. For natural history buffs and Jurassic Park fans. Dinosaurs...
 
 
Home Base Hiking Europe: An Explore-on-Foot Guide to Unforgettable Destinations

Cassandra Overby - Mountaineers Books
Format: Paperback

Spotlights "home-base" travel itineraries in Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and SwitzerlandEach destination features four detailed day-hikes, including maps and directions, as well as food, sights, and other activitiesGet away from tourists and instead...
 
 
Dutch Oven and Cast Iron Cooking, Revised and Expanded Third Edition: 125 Tasty Recipes for Indoor & Outdoor Cooking (Fox Chapel Publishing) Delicious Breakfasts, Breads, Mains, Sides, & Desserts

Anne Schaeffer - Fox Chapel Publishing
Format: Paperback

The must-have guide to using a classic Dutch oven in your kitchen and the great outdoors!Over 125 delicious recipes for breakfast, breads, main dishes, side dishes, and dessertsCare guide to seasoning, cleaning, drying, and storing your cast iron cookwareHow to use your Dutch oven and accessories...
 
 
The Rough Guide to Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight: Travel Guide with eBook (Rough Guide Main Series)

Rough Guides - Rough Guides
Format: Paperback

This Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground....
 
 
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed...
 
 
Oaklore: Adventures in a World of Extraordinary Trees

Jules Acton - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

'[T]he joyful verve with which Acton imparts wisdom gathered in the wild is impossible to resist.' - The Observer. 'As rich, satisfying and revelatory as a long walk in the woods.' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees. What connects Robin Hood, the history...
 
 
Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail

Sally Brooks - Running Wild Press
Format: Paperback

From comedian Sally Chaffin Brooks comes a memoir about the thing she can't seem to shut up about - her life changing thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. 25-year-old Sally has no reason to upend her comfortable, conventional life to spend 5 months hiking the Appalachian Trail; no reason...