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The Night Sky Month by Month
DK - DK; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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This comprehensive reference book shines bright with crystal-clear month-by-month charts of the planets, stars, and constellations in the northern and southern hemispheres.The Night Sky Month by Month features specially-commissioned artworks and stunning photography introducing the main... |
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Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
Natalie Warren - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and constant hunger. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile route made famous by Eric Sevareid in his 1935 classic Canoeing with the Cree, Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho faced unexpected trials,... |
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Steve Olson - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster.For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled... |
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
Cary J. Griffith - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness's epochal weather disaster. On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) , a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history.... |
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The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape
Cheri Register - Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County's Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources... |
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Oceans: A Very Short Introduction
D A V Stow - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in the oceans over 3.5 billion years ago and remained there for the great majority of that... |
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The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
Merlin D Tuttle - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared. From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect... |
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