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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In one of his first books, "The Mountains of California", John Muir, famed naturalist, environmentalist, and author, recounts his travels through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite Valley. First published in 1894, "The Mountains of California" is a captivating and vivid portrait of the raw beauty of this spectacular place. He takes the readers on a tour of the wonders that abound, writing "Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Weaving together natural history around Thoreau's life and times, this exploration of seasonal changes is presented in a beautifully illustrated field notebook featuring watercolors augmented with historical images and reproductions of Thoreau's own sketches.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 92
Publisher
distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams (beloved author of "Refuge") creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals...and what it means to have a voice beyond a selfless existence informed by children and a husband.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a conservationist, John Muir traveled through most of the American wilderness alone and on foot, without a gun or a sleeping bag. In 1903, while on a three-day camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt, he convinced the president of the importance of a national conservation program, and he is widely recognized for saving the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Petrified Forest. Muir's writing, based on journals he kept throughout his life, gives our...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on Thoreau?s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist;...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms. This sweeping, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it:...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Audubon's Elephant was the name given to John James Audubon's greatest work, The Birds of America -- a folio of 435 life-size ornithological prints that remains the most enduring depiction of birdlife in the United States. Audubon is remembered today as a bird-obsessed naturalist who took to the backwoods and rivers to perfect his art, but, as Duff Hart-Davis explains, he was also an experienced self-promoter who spent twelve years traveling between...
15) Roosevelt the explorer: T.R.'s amazing adventures as a naturalist, conservationist, and explorer
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Pub
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
No American president has been so enthusiastic in his appreciation of the wilderness and in his attention to the preservation of natural treasures as Theodore Roosevelt. This book chronicles the adventurerUs lifelong quests and expeditions, which saw him traversing some of North America, South America, and AfricaUs most difficult terrain. 25 photos.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This picture book is about the life of Gene Stratton-Porter, a pioneering wildlife photographer and popular author from the late 19th and early 20th century, tells how she showed the world the beauty of nature, especially birds, and why it was worth preserving.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Few biologists in the long history of that science have been as productive, as ground-breaking and as controversial as the Alabama-born Edward Osborne Wilson. At 91 years of age he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in general and ants in particular, his field work on them and on all social insects has vastly expanded our knowledge of their many species and fascinating ways of...
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