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That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Americas Public Lands

Mark D Kenyon - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes - Americas public lands. Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land trust in the world. These vast expanses...
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Plant and Planet: Sustainable and Delicious Vegetarian Cooking for Real People

Goodful - Rodale Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Goodful offers approachable recipes, tips, and guides for everyday life. In Plant and Planet, discover seventy-five plant-based recipes for meal prep, everyday celebrations, and cooking with the seasons, from Zucchini Lasagna Boats and Black Bean & Walnut Quesadillas to Caramelized...
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Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

Peter Wohlleben - ?Greystone Books
Format: Paperback

Awaken your senses and learn how to be a forest detective - with Peter Wohlleben, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees."This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending time amongst the trees." - Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading...
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How Zoologists Organize Things: The Art of Classification

David Bainbridge - White Lion Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves,...
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

Nicholas Pyenson - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of scienceWhales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like...
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The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment

Rainer F. Buschmann - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.* Introduces readers to the five major oceans of the world...
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Summer

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD - Penguin Pr
Format: Hardcover

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four...
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Peterson Guide to Bird Identificationin 12 Steps

STEVE N G HOWELL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The perfect introduction for beginning birders: a 12-step path to a lifelong addiction Part of the satisfaction of watching birds is being able to name what you see. Yet, open a field guide, and there are hundreds of species to choose from, some with different appearances for males, females,...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Stephen Brusatte - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Sapiens, Your Inner Fish, The Sixth Extinction, and I Contain Multitudes, a sweeping narrative scientific history - the only one of its kind - that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy, from...
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National Audubon Society Birds of North America

National Audubon Society
Format: Kindle Edition

Developed by the creators of the best-selling Audubon field guides, this handsome volume is the result of a collaboration among leading scientists, scholars, taxonomic and field experts, photo editors, and designers. An indispensable reference, it covers more than 800 species, with over...
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