mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jon Bell

JOEL PALMER didn’t ever walk to the very top of Mount Hood, nor did he own a pair of sneakers. But in 1845 the Canadianborn pioneer became the first known ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Jerry Thompson; Simon Winchester

Gary Carver’s memory of that deceptively sunny day was just as vivid. The shockwaves hit while he was driving to his office on the Humboldt State campus in Arcata. After ...

mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:David Quammen

Now we come to the question of human survival, a matter of some interest to many. We come to a certain fretful leap of logic that otherwise thoughtful observers seem ...

mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Bernd Heinrich

12 New England Longhorns 23 July 2005. TODAY I FOUND SEVERAL FOOT-LONG LIVE oak twigs on the ground under the tree I had planted about fifteen years ago next to ...

mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman

After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Rachel Carson

18 [1953] The Edge of the Sea THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marie Brennan

PART THREE In which scientific progress is made, despite the obstacle of a demon from the ancient past THIRTEEN An unexpected greeting upon our return — The continued problem of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:Michael Pollan

That day, my second on the farm, as Joel introduced me to each of his intricately layered enterprises, I began to understand just how radically different this sort of farming ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:John Mcmillan

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...

mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Attenborough, David & Fuller, Errol [Attenborough, David]

Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit from G. D. Elliot’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1873). Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by William Hart ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Brennan, Marie [Brennan, Marie]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Daniel Loxton

Figure 5.24 The creature reported by officers of the HMS Daedalus in 1848. The Daedalus case became an enduring part of the cryptozoological canon after it attracted a detailed public ...