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Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips

Lonely Planet. - Lonely Planet Pbns
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date...
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Following Fifi: My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Closest Relatives

John Crocker - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating quest into a remote African forest to examine chimpanzees and understand the roots of human behavior.As a young student, John Crocker embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, spending eight months in the Gombe forest working with Jane Goodall. He followed families of wild...
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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics

JAMES CHESHIRE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." -- Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFor thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints....
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

Meg Lowman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as innovative as MacGuyver and as can-do as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. A pioneer in her field -- she invented one of the first treetop walkways -- she is a tireless advocate for the earth and has spent decades educating citizens...
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Ohio Train Disasters (Transportation)

Jane Ann Turzillo - The History Press
Format: Paperback

In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed...
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The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow

Sarah Brown PhD - ?Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world by learning how to talk to us. This book translates - in case you missed anything.A renowned cat behavior scientist of over thirty years, Dr. Sarah Brown has been at the forefront...
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Peregrine Spring: A Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey

Nancy Cowan - Lyons Press
Format: Print book

Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan's memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she's learned from...
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The Ultimate Guide To Cat Breeds: A useful means of identifying the cat breeds of the world and how to care for them

Louisa Somerville - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book

Cats have been domesticated since prehistoric times, perhaps for as long as 5,000 years. Throughout human history, they have been greatly valued as destroyers of vermin, as well as for their ornamental qualities.The domestic cat is related to lions, tigers, pumas and other wild cats and the similarity...
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Ghost Riders: When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II

Mark Felton - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing story of American GIs joining forces with German soldiers in the closing days of World War II to save the world's finest horsesAs the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun...
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Camel Crazy: A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels

Christina Adams - New World Library
Format: Paperback

In this page-turning odyssey, a mother on a mission travels the globe - from Bedouin camps in the Middle East to Amish farms in Pennsylvania to camel-herder villages in India - to obtain camel milk, which dramatically helps her son's autism symptoms. Chronicling bureaucratic roadblocks,...
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