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"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW
Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again.
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Serpents of Paradise

By: Abbey, Edward

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Publisher: : October 2013

Seller ID: 255647

ISBN-13: 9780805031331

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This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.

The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what's happening in the author's life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.

Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

By: Abram, David

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Seller ID: 534814

ISBN-13: 9780679776390

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Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natura...
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Moon by Whale Light : And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

By: Ackerman, Diane

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Publisher: : November 2009

Seller ID: 469786

ISBN-13: 9780679742265

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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

By: Adamson, Joy

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Publisher: : October 2016

Seller ID: 701821

ISBN-13: 9780375714382

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There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when The New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us. Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increas...
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Outwitting Squirrels

By: Adler, Bill Jr.

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Publisher: : June 2011

Seller ID: 628425

ISBN-13: 9781556523021

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Illustrates and explains a series of strategems to keep squirrels from eating and ruining yards and gardens when more traditional tactics fail.
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris

By: Allin, Michael

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Seller ID: 500762

ISBN-13: 9780385334112

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In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she had sailed across the Mediterranean standing in the hold, her long neck and head protruding through a hole cut in the deck. In the spring of 1827, after wintering in Marseille, she was carefully walked 550 miles to Paris to the delight of thousands of onlookers. The viceroy's tribute was politically motivated: He commanded the Turkish forces t...
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The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth (St. Francis)

By: Alvarez, Walter

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : December 2008

Seller ID: 527143

ISBN-13: 9780393061857

Binding: Hardcover

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Modern geologists, Walter Alvarez among them, showed in the last decades of the twentieth century that the history of our planet has witnessed events profoundly more dramatic than even the most spectacular chapters in human history. More violent than wars, more life altering than revolutions--understanding the geologic events that have shaped the Earth's surface is the quest and the passion of geologists. In the knowledgeable and graceful prose of Alvarez, general readers are led to explore the many mysteries that our planet guards.The author has chosen Italy as a microcosm in which to explore...
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Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

By: Andrews, Bryce

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Publisher: Mariner Books : April 2020

Seller ID: 697756

ISBN-13: 9780358299271

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"Andrews's wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work." --Barry Lopez The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, a...
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Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild

By: Anthony, Lawrence

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Seller ID: 337313

ISBN-13: 9781250007810

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Lawrence Anthony devoted his life to animal conservation, protecting the world's endangered species. Then he was asked to accept a herd of rogue wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand. His common sense told him to refuse, but he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them. In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed he became a part of their family. And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he came to realize that they had a great deal to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom. The...
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The Story of a Life

By: Appelfeld, Aharon

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Publisher: Schocken : August 2006

Seller ID: 527534

ISBN-13: 9780805211269

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When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and his father miraculously survive, and Aharon, even more miraculously, escapes from the camp shortly after he arrives there. The next few years of Aharon's life are both harrowing and heartrending: he hides, alone, in the Ukrainian forests from peasants who are only too happy to turn Jewish childr...
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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer

By: Arvigo, Rosita

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Publisher: HarperOne : February 1995

Seller ID: 737112

ISBN-13: 9780062502599

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The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.

Life on Earth

By: Attenborough, David

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Publisher: : January 2017

Seller ID: 736311

ISBN-13: 9780316057455

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Life on Earth

By: Attenborough, David

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Publisher: : January 2017

Seller ID: 783751

ISBN-13: 9780316057455

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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

By: Barlow, Maude

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Seller ID: 379972

ISBN-13: 9781595584533

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A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. "You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book." --Robert Redford In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "passionate plea for access-to-water activism," Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that--together with global warming--poses one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world's most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In "stark and nearly devastating prose", world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlow--who is ...
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Biological Century: Friday Evening Talks at the Marine Biological Laboratory

By: Barlow, Robert

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ISBN-13: 9780674074033

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At the 1988 summer session, the internationally famous Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts celebrated one hundred years of pioneering science. During the centennial festivities, many of the world's most renowned biologists assembled at MBL and delivered the Lab's traditional Friday Night Lectures, which as always were extraordinary and memorable. These lectures have been gathered and judiciously edited here by three eminent participants.Each centennial lecture is dedicated to one or two MBL pioneers, investigators at the forefront of the "new biology" that emerged t...
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The Natures of John and William Bartram: Two Pioneering Naturalists, Father and Son, in the Wilderness of Eighteenth-Cen tury America

By: Bartram/Slaughter, Thomas P.

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Publisher: Vintage : October 1997

Seller ID: 535739

ISBN-13: 9780679781189

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The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice

By: Beauchamp, Tom L.,Orlans, F. Barbara,Dresser, Rebecca,Morton, David B.,Gluck, John P.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press : March 2008

Seller ID: 615227

ISBN-13: 9780195340198

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This volume contains 16 case studies on the social controversies and moral issues surrounding the human use of animals. Topics include the use of animals in research, testing and education, as food, as companion animals and in religious rites.
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A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays

By: Berger, Bruce

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Publisher: Picador : March 2020

Seller ID: 684118

ISBN-13: 9781250251121

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A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of "desert books"--The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island--A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice.Wasteland archit...
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