epub |eng | | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

In the spring of 1826, Audubon was at last ready to go. He packed up more than four hundred drawings, put $1,600 of his and Lucy’s savings into his pocketbook, ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Candace Savage

* * * How Prairie Potholes Work At first glance, a slough does not appear to have the makings of a biological powerhouse. What is it, in the final analysis, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nick Jans

9 The Miracle Wolf March 2006 The black wolf stood at the lake’s west edge at twilight, his form mirrored in the water’s surface as he scanned the Dredge Lakes ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

* * * * The guts of the cod. When the Hanns returned to the Pond on Wednesday, they noted changes in the whale’s behaviour and appearance. “She waren’t blowing ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Bill McKibben

5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN Pandemonium! We were in one of Kirk’s big beeyards on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, breaking down big hives into small colonies that would ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1999-10-09 | Author:Douglas Botting [Douglas Botting]

At Kenema they were informed they could put up at a deserted chrome mine up in the foothills about fourteen miles out of town – a convenient spot, they were ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-12 | Author:Greer, Germaine [Greer, Germaine]

‘That the timber-getters, being the pioneers, and having gone to considerable expense in making roads etc., and as they form a considerable proportion of the population of the district, claim ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Dan Fagin [Fagin, Dan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Cluster Busting By the spring of 1995, when Steve Jones called to ask him to look into a possible cluster of childhood cancer in Toms River, Michael Berry ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Paul Rosolie

12 The Beached-Whale Paradox Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER I once made a decision so ludicrously ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]

Toward midmorning, Jonah and I head west across the Garamba River, on a four-hundred-mile flight to Bangassou, in the Central African Republic. We have left the rivers that flow toward ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-23 | Author:Douglas Brinkley [Brinkley, Douglas]

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver [Kingsolver, Barbara]

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Philip Connors

3 June Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Rachel Carson

18 [1953] The Edge of the Sea THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...