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Accessible Vacations: An Insider's Guide to 12 US Cities

Simon J. Hayhoe · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book

Having vision and hearing loss, or difficulties learning, remembering or getting around needn't stop us enjoying vacations to cultural places, either in our local cities or someone else's.Accessible Vacations is a problem-solving guide book on the most accessible museums, monuments...

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Best Climbs Rocky Mountain National Park: Over 100 Of The Best Routes On Crags And Peaks

Stewart M. Green
Format: Book

Best Climbs Rocky Mountain National Park showcases the classic routes and best climbs in America's largest national park. Ideal for both local and nonlocal climbers who want to hit as many select climbs as possible in a weekend or a short visit, it provides visually appealing, to-the-point...

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The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small

Isabella Tree · Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book

The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever make a difference?. Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. And what comes is not just wildlife...

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Coppice Agroforestry: Tending Trees for Product, Profit, and Woodland Ecology

Mark Krawczyk · New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

Cut and come again forestry - reviving the ancient practice of resprout silviculture to power local woodland-based economies.Coppice Agroforestry is a richly illustrated, comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture - managing trees and shrubs by coppicing, pollarding, shredding, and pleaching...

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No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History

Dane Huckelbridge · William Morrow
Format: Book

The astonishing true story of the tiger that claimed a record 437 human lives"Gripping." - Nature * "Thrilling. Fascinating. Exciting." - Wall Street Journal * "Riveting. Haunting." - Scientific AmericanNepal, c. 1900: A lone tigress began stalking humans,...

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Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth

Tony Hiss · Knopf
Format: Book

Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism"...

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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs

PETER WOHLLEBEN · Dutton
Format: Book

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.

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Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics

JAMES CHESHIRE · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

"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...

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