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The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

I had, once again, meant for this whole essay to be numbers: a landslide of numbers, like brittle talus. But I cannot tolerate them, at present. There is a space ...
( Category: Wildlife December 27,2014 )
Steve & Me by Terri Irwin
mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Terri Irwin

Chapter Twelve The Crocodile Kid Stephen Robert Irwin was born in Upper Ferntree Gully, outside of Melbourne, in 1962, on his mother’s birthday, February 22. Lynette and Robert Irwin—the people ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists December 27,2014 )
The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Naomi Oreskes

Epilogue The former state of Florida (part of the former United States) In one of the many paradoxes of history, the inhabitants of late-twentieth-century Florida were engaged in a grand ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 27,2014 )
The Wild Marsh by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

July is its own month too, in addition to being a bridge between others—July is the hammock, July is a crowded West, happy people on vacation, crowded gas pumps in ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
Jacques Cousteau by Brad Matsen
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Brad Matsen [Matsen, Brad]

The harbor at Monaco (COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) Monaco itself is less than a square mile of land, bordered on three sides by France and on the fourth by the ...
( Category: Oceanography December 27,2014 )
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change by McCalman Iain
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:McCalman, Iain [McCalman, Iain]

PART THREE Wonder 9 OBSESSION The Quest to Prove the Origins of the Reef PEOPLE WHO KNEW American zoologist Alex Agassiz described him as a kindly, gentle, and eminently rational ...
( Category: Marine Biology December 27,2014 )
My Green Manifesto
epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:David Gessner

We paddle hard through the morning until Donna picks us up at the Silk Mill Dam and whisks us ahead, like a lucky roll of the dice in Chutes and ...
( Category: Human Geography December 27,2014 )
Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species by Landers Jackson
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Landers, Jackson [Landers, Jackson]

Nutria Months after returning from the lizard hunt on Boca Grande, I got an e-mail from Jeff Latham, the journalist I’d met there. We’d kept in touch online since meeting ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists December 27,2014 )
Cerulean Blues by Katie Fallon
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Katie Fallon

West Virginia is hands down the most beautiful place on earth. Once Jesse and I crossed into Kanawha County and entered the state forest, the road became paved and wound ...
( Category: Birds December 27,2014 )
Perfection of the Morning by Sharon Butala
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Butala [Sharon Butala ]

STONES IN THE GRASS As I write this, on the shelf in front of me sits a chunk of wine-colored rock. It is probably sandstone, although rock identification is not ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 27,2014 )
The Curse of the Labrador Duck by Glen Chilton
epub |eng | | Author:Glen Chilton [Glen Chilton ]

EVERYONE IS ENTITLED to a bad day now and then. Once in a while, for reasons completely beyond your control, a day goes wrong from beginning to end. On a ...
( Category: Ornithology December 27,2014 )
The Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin
epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Michele Raffin

NINE Mail-Order Bride On those TV reality shows about animal rescue, the abuses are often appallingly clear—emaciated dogs and cats, skeletal horses, all delivered from their suffering by uniformed officers ...
( Category: Endangered Species December 27,2014 )
The Wild Places (Penguin Original) by Macfarlane Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-24 | Author:Macfarlane, Robert [Macfarlane, Robert]

10 Ridge For four days in late March, snow settled unexpectedly across Britain, taking it by surprise. Spring had arrived a week previously: black buds had popped green on the ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
The World We Create by Frances Beinecke
epub |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Frances Beinecke

A National Risk In 2013, U.S. railroads spilled more crude oil—1.2 million gallons—than they did in the previous four decades combined, McClatchy Newspapers reported. The analysis relied on data provided ...
( Category: Environmental December 25,2014 )
Seven Summits by Dick Bass & Frank Wells & Rick Ridgeway
epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:Dick Bass & Frank Wells & Rick Ridgeway [BASS, DICK]

The next morning Frank Wells adjusted his oxygen regulator to two liters a minute, strapped on his face mask, and left camp 3 to start the long upward traverse across ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing December 25,2014 )

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