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A Forest Journey by John Perlin
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:John Perlin

An Alternative to the Baltic Early English visitors to New England soon sent word that the many large trees growing in its forests could happily solve England’s dependency on foreign ...
( Category: Biological Sciences December 18,2017 )
Straw Dogs by John Gray
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Gray [Gray, John]

2 THE GRAND INQUISITOR AND FLYING FISH In his commentary on Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor, D. H. Lawrence confessed that he had once rejected the philosophy of the ...
( Category: Philosophy December 17,2017 )
Jane Goodall by Dale Peterson
epub |eng | | Author:Dale Peterson

Every question was either circumnavigated or firmly squashed. Every plea was answered with a sneer. Oh yes, with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders, oh yes, we could certainly edit ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 16,2017 )
The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner by Ann Larkin Hansen
epub |eng | 2017-08-10 | Author:Ann Larkin Hansen

To make small square hay bales, you need a crew and weather-tight storage, but the result can be very high-quality hay. It usually takes three to five days to make ...
( Category: Sustainable Living December 15,2017 )
Sea Room by Adam Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Nicolson [Adam Nicolson]

10 IN MIDSUMMER, AS THE BIRDS were proliferating around me, and as the cotton grass began to show its white-tufted pennants in the bogs, as the flag irises flowered in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
A Good Parcel of English Soil by Richard Mabey
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Richard Mabey [Mabey, Richard]

The lakes and thickets just south of Uxbridge resembled this scene re-imagined by Hieronymus Bosch. My own rambles (invigorating, I concede, but far from health-giving) took me across derelict Victorian ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 14,2017 )
Breath of Wilderness by Kristin Eggerling
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Kristin Eggerling

Five The Power of Words While Sigurd was in high school, the Ashland Chamber of Commerce sponsored an essay contest about the chamber’s values. Sig didn’t care about the organization ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 14,2017 )
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'hanlon
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Redmond O'hanlon [O'Hanlon, Redmond]

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...
( Category: Specialty Travel December 11,2017 )
Trainable Cat by Bradshaw John
epub |eng | 2016-07-10 | Author:Bradshaw, John

Squidge is busy with a puzzle feeder while Herbie watches, safely behind the barrier. Building on these initial steps, we can now provide more positive experiences for both animals while ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care December 11,2017 )
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Jon Young

Historically, a dichotomy has been drawn between the semantic communication of human language and the apparently emotional calls of animals. Current research paints a more complicated picture. Just as scientists ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 10,2017 )
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers by Christopher Cokinos
epub |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

The Passenger Pigeon Overleaf: Passenger Pigeons. Note the netting operation in the background. From Thomas Nuttall’s 1840 ornithology. The Dark Beneath Their Wings [T]hese birds . . . have communicated ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 9,2017 )
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Rebecca Solnit [Solnit, Rebecca]

AWAKENINGS AND COINCIDENCES One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, as they ...
( Category: Americas December 8,2017 )
Being Salmon, Being Human by Martin Lee Mueller
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Martin Lee Mueller

Since its beginnings, modernity has advocated a kind of “narrative hegemony,” the expectation that one “right” story would emerge by virtue of technological and moral progress. The modern story was ...
( Category: Anthropology December 7,2017 )
Canyon Sacrifice by Graham Scott
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Graham, Scott [Graham, Scott]

SEVENTEEN 5 p.m. Chuck choked and sputtered, coughing blood. Liquid trickled down the back of his throat, thick and dark red in his mind’s eye. He gagged. Spat weakly. Clawed ...
( Category: Mystery December 7,2017 )
Penguins and Other Seabirds by Matt Sewell
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Matt Sewell

Smew Smew Mergellus albellus Want to know why the Smew is my favorite seabird, even though it’s not actually that much of a seabird, as seabirds go? It has the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 6,2017 )

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