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The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:John McPhee

Henri Vaillancourt once had a dead bear in his room at college. This emerges as we move north on the northernmost arm of Chesuncook Lake. Between the canoes, idle conversation ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 8,2018 )
A Naturalist at Large by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

The phoebe pair spends little time around the house after July. In mid-September we commonly hear and see the pair, but only for a day or two. As the foliage ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 8,2018 )
Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

* * * • • • We lived in this Bergmanesque summer house on Fårö for five days, long enough to fall into a certain rhythm: in the mornings I ...
( Category: Memoirs May 8,2018 )
First, Catch by Thom Eagle
epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Thom Eagle

13 ON COOKING WITH WINE AND VINEGAR Everyone knows that blood is thicker than water, but there is some disagreement about the precise nature of wine. Something old and rich, ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference May 7,2018 )
Species by John S. Wilkins
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:John S. Wilkins

up of species. Weismann appears to think that entire species transmute and are changed into new species after a period of fragmentation of forms. However, he realizes that spe- cies ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 6,2018 )
How to Watch a Bird by Steve Braunias
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Steve Braunias

A hen Bellbird, Little Barrier, 25.2.48 Birdland THE AIR WAS full of feathers and cries – all across the country. I began writing about birds in my weekly column in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 5,2018 )
Animal-assisted Interventions for Individuals with Autism by Temple Grandin
epub |eng | | Author:Temple Grandin [Merope, Pavlides]

Choosing a pet Returning to the case of my friend, the value of obtaining a dog outweigh the challenges, then the family must determine what breed and age of dog ...
( Category: Children's Health May 4,2018 )
Eye of the Shoal by Helen Scales
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Scales

Osiris and the elephantfish Ancient Egypt, 2,400 years BP Stories carved inside Ancient Egyptian pyramids tell of a great and wonderful king called Osiris who ruled over Egypt with his ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 3,2018 )
Hedgerow by John Wright
epub |eng | 2017-05-03 | Author:John Wright

Spearmint Mentha spicata DESCRIPTION Medium, upright perennial, to 70cm. Leaves distinctly pointed/oval, with neat saw-toothed edge, bright green, almost unstalked, mostly hairless. Stems square in section. Flowers lilac, central spike ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 3,2018 )
Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
epub |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:David Attenborough

Recording in the Dyak longhouse The next morning the festivities continued. Now it was the turn of the men. They danced to the music of drums and a gambus, a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 1,2018 )
The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
epub |eng | 2018-05-01 | Author:Wendell Berry

(1982) A Few Words for Motherhood It is the season of motherhood again, and we are preoccupied with the pregnant and the unborn. When birth is imminent, especially with a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 1,2018 )
Gold Panning Colorado by Garret Romaine
epub |eng | | Author:Garret Romaine

There is a good report on this district by Dings and Robinson (1957, pp. 83-85) USGS Professional Paper 289. They report that pyritic quartz veins up to 50 feet thick ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 1,2018 )
Large Mammals of the Rocky Mountains by Jack Ballard
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Ballard

Exceptionally severe winter weather and epic storms can be fatal to even healthy adult bison. JACK BALLARD Although the final generations of American Indians who hunted bison on horseback have ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 1,2018 )
Run the Storm by George Michelsen Foy
epub |eng | | Author:George Michelsen Foy

10 The seas Joaquin churns up at its center, according to the latest forecast received, must by now be well over fifteen feet in height, driven by winds of seventy ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 1,2018 )
Roots to the Earth by Wendell Berry
epub |eng | 2016-08-27 | Author:Wendell Berry

For a further wonder, Danny and Lyda seem to have understood from the start that they would have to make a life together that would be determinedly marginal to the ...
( Category: Poetry April 27,2018 )

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