Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

CHAPTER TWELVE ANNANDALE Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Nate Blakeslee [Blakeslee, Nate]

8 RETURN TO THE LAMAR VALLEY Judge Molloy issued his ruling on Thursday, August 5, 2010. He signed the decision at 2:43 in the afternoon, too late for the news ...
( Category: Americas October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

September 13th.—We left the baths of Cauquenes, and, rejoining the main road, slept at the Rio Claro. From this place we rode to the town of San Fernando. Before arriving ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Zachary Anderegg [Anderegg, Zachary]

5 I lay on an air mattress in the back of my truck, looking up at the night sky. Most people think the brightest star in the sky is Polaris, ...
( Category: Memoirs October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1999-02-14 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

Eighteen miles was a heroic distance for us, but we were filthy and trail-weary and more than ready for a town, and so we plodded on. We reached Front Royal ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-07-10 | Author:Carl Sagan

Chapter 6: Tales of Dim Eden Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden . . -WALTER DE LA MARE "Al That's Past" "Wel , ...
( Category: Evolution October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-17 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-18 | Author:Tucker, Abigail [Tucker, Abigail]

The father of human–house cat research is an American biologist named Dennis Turner. He began his scientific career in the 1970s with a very different animal subject: the vampire bat, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Robert Macfarlane

11 Roots On pilgrimage — ‘Bees of the Invisible’ — The Rule of Resonance — The Library of the Forest — A demonstration of dominion — The Mask of Henry ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Boothby [Boothby, Dan]

As for the apparitions – Joyce, the last lighthouse keeper’s daughter, likes to blame the fumes from the Brasso with which the keepers polished the rails and fittings of the ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 22,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Huntington, Cynthia [Huntington, Cynthia]

I sit at the table writing in my journal. The book is filling with summer scenes, incidents, ideas—it pleases me to keep writing, to balance whole sentences on a thought ...
( Category: Poetry October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:John Simpson

Chapter Three Later in the week, Craig picked Adam up to go out for dinner, and when Adam got in the car, he could tell something was wrong. "Honey, tell ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Smith, Jennie Erin [Smith, Jennie Erin]

A CANAL ran adjacent to the house Dwayne Cunningham and Hank Molt shared. Molt liked spending his evenings on the porch, drinking beer and listening to the alligators bellowing in ...
( Category: True Crime October 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-12-11 | Author:Kevin N. Laland

CHAPTER 10 THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION The pace of change experienced by the members of our evolutionary lineage has accelerated over recent times, and continues to accelerate.1 Like all species ...
( Category: Evolution October 22,2017 )