Books of Nature / Essays
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Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan
A celebration of Borneo's natural wonders, from its rainforest-covered lowland areas to its mountain ranges, highland areas, and winding rivers, with over 200 stunning color photographs. The island of...
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Seeing Nature: Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World
By Paul KrafelSeeing Nature is a series of true stories or parables that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to wild landscapes,...
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Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
By Paul BogardThe development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a terrible price--wasted energy, damage to human health, and...
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The Sheep Book: A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd
By Ronald B. ParkerThe Sheep Book carries the reader along through a year in a sheep's life during which sheep and shepherd form a symbiosis. A knowledgeable shepherd manages a flock in such...
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Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
By American Museum of Natural HistoryFor the first time, Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom-seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from...
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End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica
By Peter MatthiessenEnd of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and...
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Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony
By Hank Lentfer, Carolyn ServidOriginally presented to Congress on March 28, 2001, this book brings together the latest word from key conservation leaders as well as firsthand accounts by Alaska residents on how they...
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The Natures of John and William Bartram
By Thomas P. SlaughterJohn Bartram was the greatest collecting botanist of his day, and personally introduced fully one quarter of all the plants that reached Europe from the New World during the colonial...
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The Yosemite
By John MuirIn the classic nature work, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types of trees, flowers, birds, and other animals that...
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Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism
By Susan R. SchrepferFrom the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to...
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Making Time: Essays on the Nature of Los Angeles
By William L. FoxA master of combining science, history, and his own experiences into a riveting read, William L. Fox will make you look at L.A.--and any urban landscape --in an entirely new...
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Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about who We are
By Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills"Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. His decades of groundbreaking work with these amazing animals - who share...
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Adios, Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West
By Page StegnerPage Stegner's extensive writings on American history have made him a popular and critical favorite. Adios Amigos maintains his high standard. These essays expertly interweave natural history, conservation polemic, ecology,...
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Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed
By Jim StilesWhen Jim Stiles moved west from Kentucky in the 1970s to make Moab, Utah, his home, that corner of the rural West had already endured decades of obscurity, a uranium...
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The Mountain Spirit
By Michael Tobias, Harold DrasdoPhotographs and essays by leading authorities in the field provide diverse perspectives on the aesthetics of mountains and mountain climbing
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讀書讀書
By 老舍, 周作人, 林語堂《讀書讀書》選錄了24位現當代文學名家共48篇文章，從文學家的角度講述如何讀書，應讀什麼書，還有介紹不同的讀書方法，不論是為了求知而正襟危坐，還是意在消遣而隨便翻翻，皆可體會到讀書的樂趣和魅力。 書中記述了現代讀書人的「讀書」、「買書」、「藏書」的各種情態，以及不同地方書肆的經營情況，呈現了豐富有趣的讀書風尚。 編者簡介 陳平原 北京大學中文系教授（2008至2012年任中文系系主任）、教育部「長江學者」特聘教授、中央文史研究館館員，國務院學位委員會學科評議組成員，中國俗文學學會會長。研究範疇包括20世紀中國文學、中國小說與散文、現代中國教育及學術、圖像與文字等。 著有多本專著，包括《中國小說敍事模式的轉變》、《中國散文小說史》、《當代中國人文觀察》、《千古文人俠客夢》等。
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湖濱散記: 新潮文庫407
By 亨利.大衛.梭羅享利．大衛．梭羅（1817~1862）出生於波士頓西北約二十哩的康考特小鎮，這位愛好自然，獨來獨往的文學家，英年四十五歲辭世。在世之日，未享盛名的梭羅，如今聲名日益遠播。二十八歲那年他在華爾騰湖畔自己蓋了一間小木屋，在此隱居二年又二個月，完成這本使他名垂不朽的「湖濱散記」（原名：華爾騰湖／森林裡的生活）。在環保生態已經攸關人類生死存亡的今天，本書已被公認為最偉大的經典之作，與繆爾、李奧帕德並列為三大自然寫作大師。為了使讀者更深了解本書的思想和意蘊，現根據普林斯頓大學珍貴版本重新以大字本重排並收攝影名家Ｈ．Ｗ．葛里遜（1855~1937）照片傑作六十七幀。全書也重新做了修訂，名著名譯，文字和照片天衣無縫的結合，使讀者有如親訪華爾騰湖、確有身歷其境的嶄新感受。
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Voices of the Land
By Jamie Crelly PurintonA visual and written tribute, Voices of the Land brings together a diverse community who speaks out for greater stewardship of our landscape. The authors, whether ecologist, farmer, chef, mushroom...
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The Africa Diaries: An Illustrated Memoir of Life in the Bush
By Dereck JoubertAcademy Award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert have lived in the wilds of Africa for 20 years, fiercely dedicated to understanding and protecting the majestic animals surrounding them. They live...
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On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher's Journey Among Mountain People, Trout & Streams
By Harry MiddletonThis powerful story of one angler's adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains is a descent into wildness, a meditation on the landscape bathed in greenness and truth, and the discovery...