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A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Gerald Durrell

I watched her do this three days in succession before I was satisfied that I was not imagining things, for it seemed to me to be one of the weirdest ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
The Meadow by James Galvin
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Galvin

When they surveyed the state line between Colorado and Wyoming it didn’t come out right. Both states are almost four hundred miles square so it wasn’t much of a surprise ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 5,2015 )
To the River by Olivia Laing
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olivia Laing

After the sun had dropped and I’d soaped myself thoroughly beneath a lukewarm shower I began to revive. I ate a curry in an empty restaurant and drank a beer ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Mary Roach
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

It wasn't Folkman's triumph that Bahcall kept coming back to, however. It was his struggle. Folkman's great insight at the Naval Medical Center occurred in 1960. O'Reilly's breakthrough experiment occurred ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 23,2015 )
Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea by Peter Benchley
mobi, epub | | 2007-04-10 | Author:Peter Benchley

11 You Say You Want to Dive with Sharks? Well, you'd better be with an experienced scuba diver. And you'd better be guided by a veteran dive master who knows ...
( Category: Marine Life March 20,2015 )
The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead
epub |eng | 2007-11-29 | Author:Alfred North Whitehead [Whitehead, Alfred North]

* * * CHAPTER VI CONGRUENCE The aim of this lecture is to establish a theory of congruence. You must understand at once that congruence is a controversial question. It ...
( Category: General Surgery March 9,2015 )
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Helen Macdonald

16 Rain WHITE IS MAKING a trap. It is not easy. There is a testing practicality to this that pleases him. He has stripped an ash-wand of bark and bent ...
( Category: Birdwatching March 3,2015 )
Best of the Best by Tim Green
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Tim Green [Green, Tim]

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE JOSH COULDN’T HELP FEELING bad for Zamboni. Even after touching his own face to remind himself of the shot Zamboni had given him earlier, Josh still felt bad. ...
( Category: Anthologies February 2,2015 )
Seeds of Hope by Jane Goodall
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Jane Goodall

And Now “Superweeds” Monsanto has also created GE crops (soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beet) that are tolerant of its own brand of herbicide, Roundup, now the most widely ...
( Category: Primatology January 29,2015 )
Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 1993-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men. Several years ago I visited India on a trip sponsored by Harvard’s Natural History Museum. My colleagues delighted in ...
( Category: Fauna January 29,2015 )
The Measure of a Mountain by Bruce Barcott
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Bruce Barcott

CAMP MUIR I began going high. On quiet mornings I slipped out of the city before it awoke and drove to Paradise, snapped on a pair of gaiters, and walked ...
( Category: Mount Rainier January 29,2015 )
Summer World A Season of Bounty
mobi | | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

( Category: Wildlife January 6,2015 )
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 )
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 )
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 )

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