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Day Hike! Mount Rainier by Ron C. Judd
epub |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Ron C. Judd [Judd, Ron C.]

PERMITS/CONTACT Entrance fee; no day-hiking passes required/Ohanapecosh Visitor Center, (360) 569-6046; Longmire Wilderness Information Center, (360) 569-6650 MAPS Green Trails No. 270, Mount Rainier East; USGS Mount Rainier East TRAIL ...
( Category: Pacific June 1,2015 )
The Sleeping Sphinx
epub |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

It had been built between two cypresses; they did not shade it, but they threw shadows straight ahead on either side. It was square, of heavy gray stone, squat, with ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 31,2015 )
The Log From the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics)
mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Marine Biology May 30,2015 )
Spider Dance
epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Carole Nelson Douglas [Douglas, Carole Nelson]

My Lollita: I am glad the gold comb in the shape of a crown is favorable to you in California, the place of gold lying on and inside the ground. ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders May 30,2015 )
John James Audubon
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * IV. About the very great merit of this work, there is but one opinion among competent judges. It is, indeed, a monument to the man's indomitable energy ...
( Category: Zoology May 30,2015 )
Steep Trails
mobi |eng | | Author:Muir, John [Muir, John]

* * * XVI Nevada's Dead Towns[21] Nevada is one of the very youngest and wildest of the States; nevertheless it is already strewn with ruins that seem as gray ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
Wake-Robin
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
The Natural History of Selborne
mobi |eng | | Author:White, Gilbert [White, Gilbert]

* * * Letter XI To The Honourable Daines Barrington Selborne, Feb. 8, 1772. Dear Sir, When I ride about in the winter, and see such prodigious flocks of various ...
( Category: Natural History May 30,2015 )
The Yosemite
mobi |eng | | Author:Muir, John [Muir, John]

Chapter 8 The Flowers Yosemite was all one glorious flower garden before plows and scythes and trampling, biting horses came to make its wide open spaces look like farmers' pasture ...
( Category: Conservation May 29,2015 )
Nature
mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

* * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NATURE *** ***** This file should be named ...
( Category: Nature May 29,2015 )
NUTS AND BERRIES OF CALIFORNIA by Nyerges Christopher
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Nyerges, Christopher

Sometimes called husk tomato; one species (cultivated) is the popular tomatillo. The ripe fruits were eaten by the native peoples living in the desert near the Colorado River. The fruits ...
( Category: State & Local May 28,2015 )
Gods of the Morning by John Lister-Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:John Lister-Kaye

11 The Long Wait When Springtime came, red Robin built a nest, And trilled a lover’s song in sheer delight. Grey hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might Clothed her ...
( Category: Wildlife May 27,2015 )
The Intimate Bond by Brian Fagan
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Brian Fagan

Riding horses opened up the steppes and provided a degree of mobility to people living in undeveloped country that had been unimaginable even a thousand years earlier. It also transformed ...
( Category: Animals May 27,2015 )
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
epub |eng | 2003-05-26 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

For a long time, Noah held the altitude record. Opinion differs sharply as to the location and height of the biblical Mount Ararat, upon the slopes of which the Ark ...
( Category: Travel May 27,2015 )
All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:David Gessner [Gessner, David]

DURING MY MAY trip to study the Abbey papers at the library in Tucson, I’d driven up to the Glen Canyon Dam and taken a raft trip that started at ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )

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