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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological, that humans are leaving behind. What will the world look like in ten thousand years-or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?
In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created...
Author
Language
English
Description
A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation.
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting...
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting...
4) Pond
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together"--
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic edition.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home."Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us." Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years. Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm...
12) Watership Down
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. England's Downs were once an idyllic rural landscape, but plans for development are afoot. Facing the certain destruction of their homes, a band of very special creatures must plan a flight from the intrusion of...
15) On my mountain
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Both the perspective of the wolf and the shepherd are seen in this flippable picture book."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iųpiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she...
20) Rainforest
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Compares and contrasts the plants, animals, and indigenous peoples of the world's rainforests by continent, exploring secrets of survival in the forest and examining how human exploitation threatens these diverse habitats.
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