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Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting by Garret Romaine
epub |eng | 2019-05-03 | Author:Garret Romaine

WHERE TO LOOK FOR PANNING SPOTS Your first task is to locate a known gold district. There are plenty of books available to help you research likely regions where gold ...
( Category: Fossils June 21,2019 )
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia by Morten Strange
epub |eng | | Author:Morten Strange

RUFOUS PICULET Sasia abnormis 9 cm F: Picidae Description: Unmistakable within range; replaced in the rest of the Oriental region by the similar White-browed Piculet, S. ochracea; photo shows female; ...
( Category: Plants & Animals June 20,2019 )
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Tobias Leenaert [Leenaert, Tobias]

Larger or more established vegan and animal advocacy organizations may possess in-house expertise that offers businesses consultations that may prove valuable to them. They may be able to help companies ...
( Category: Animal Rights June 20,2019 )
In Search of Monster Fish by Mark Spitzer
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Spitzer

27. Fishin’ mission accomplished. Photo by Lee Merritt. Ultimately, I was left with two main conclusions: The first was the obvious observation that it’s a blast to go after monster ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 17,2019 )
Wayfinding by M. R. O'Connor
epub |eng | | Author:M. R. O'Connor

YOU SAY LEFT, I SAY NORTH Does the language we speak and the words we use to describe space influence our perception of reality? The psychologist James Gibson describes knowing ...
( Category: Natural History June 17,2019 )
Photographic Guide to Snakes, Other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa by Bill Branch
epub |eng | 2014-10-24 | Author:Bill Branch

SPECKLE-LIPPED SKINK Trachylepis maculilabris 18–28cm A large arboreal skink with pointed snout and long tail. Body scales have 5–8 keels and are in 29–35 midbody rows. Body colour varies regionally, ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians June 12,2019 )
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Nan Shepherd [Nan Shepherd]

SEVEN Life: The Plants I have written of inanimate things, rock and water, frost and sun; and it might seem as though this were not a living world. But I ...
( Category: Essays June 11,2019 )
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
epub |eng | | Author:Marie Brennan

FOURTEEN The heart of the swamp—Leeches—Egg-hatching season—Hunters of knowledge I thought I had seen the Green Hell during our weeks in that first camp, but I was wrong. Compared to ...
( Category: Natural History June 10,2019 )
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Robert Macfarlane

~ Looking back afterwards, from the far side of the Wall – though there were other hazards there, and other wonders too – I recall the crossing chiefly as a ...
( Category: Conservation June 7,2019 )
J.R.R. Tolkien by Tom Shippey
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Shippey [T.A. Shippey ]

CHAPTER IV THE LORD OF THE RINGS (3): THE MYTHIC DIMENSION Allegory and applicability In the ‘Foreword’ to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote: ‘I ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy June 7,2019 )
The Soils of Iceland (World Soils Book Series) by Arnalds Olafur
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Arnalds, Olafur [Arnalds, Olafur]

Oskarsson et al. (2004) used the AUI database to see the average depth distribution of carbon for the different soil types. The results for Sandy and Cambic Vitrisols, Brown Andosols, ...
( Category: Geology June 6,2019 )
Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser environmental books) by Oslund Karen
mobi |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Oslund, Karen [Oslund, Karen]

Language politics also played a major role in Norway after its separation from Denmark and incorporation into the Swedish state in 1814 with the Treaty of Kiel. After centuries of ...
( Category: Conservation June 6,2019 )
The Brendan Voyage (NF8) by Tim Severin
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Sailing June 6,2019 )
Sloths by William Hartston
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:William Hartston

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. Horace, Satires (c. 30 BC) Having established that sloths are not slothful but merely supreme examples of energy efficiency, it is time to ...
( Category: Fauna June 6,2019 )
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret by Hunter Vaughan;
epub |eng | | Author:Hunter Vaughan;

Figure 3.5 Referencing recent Hollywood blockbusters to contextualize itself as a CGI-effects action film, Twister’s (Jan de Bont, 1996) original poster features the tagline “The Dark Side of Nature”—confirming that ...
( Category: Conservation June 3,2019 )

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