This brilliant and ambitious book is an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically - and a call for a new way of thinking about history. 'We learn', Tudge writes, 'to think only in desperately trivial twinklings of time. . . But this contracted view of time is not merely comic. It is dangerous. ' The proper sense of time, he argues, is one that allows us to appreciate the world and see what we are doing to it. If humankind is to surviv...
In New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, 83 Mexican gray wolves may be some of the most monitored wildlife on the planet. Collared, microchipped, and transported by helicopter, the wolves are protected and confined in an attempt to appease ranchers and conservationists alike. Once a symbol of the wild, these wolves have come to illustrate the demise of wilderness in this Human Age, where man's efforts shape life in even the most remote corners of the earth. And yet, the howl of an unregistered wolf, hal...
Audubon's Last Wilderness Journey
The Quadrupeds was J.J. Audubon's final great natural history work, published over 3 volumes in 1845-1848. This landmark publication cuts right across art history, wildlife science and ecology, supported by new photography of Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University's copy of the original 1849 three-volume elephant folio broadsheet edition (the subject of ongoing conservation work). It looks at the art historical context and technical process of the series creation, the lithogra...
Mountains and Moorlands (Collins New Naturalist Library, #11)
by W. H. Pearsall
An invaluable introduction to the upland regions of Britain – their structure, climate, vegetation and animal life, their present and past uses and the problems of their conservation for the future. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Moorland, mountain-top and upland grazing occupy over a third of the total living-space of the British Isles, and, of all kinds of land, have suffered least interference by man. Mountains and moorlands provide the widest scope for studying natur...
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year. This New Naturalist volume on the region highlights the wonder and magic of its windswept vistas, rock formations, storied history and fantastic wildlife, revealing its ecological foundations, showing how it has fared over the centuries and projecting what the future might hold. As a botanist and ecologist who has spent her wor...
Discover 1,000 cool stickers featuring awesome safari animals, like lions, elephants, giraffes, cheetahs, and more. You’ll also find skill-building puzzles and mazes, spelling and pattern games, drawing activities, photos, facts, and other activities that will keep you entertained (and learning) for hours on end. National Geographic Kids Sticker Activity Books are loaded with fun.
Here you will find a wealth of information on the fauna, flora, and natural wonders of the Kawarthas. The Kawarthas sit astride the Canadian Shield and fertile lands to the south. This is cottage country a place where people are closer to nature and where children and adults remark on the sightings of animals, birds, and butterflies from windows and lakeside chairs and ask questions about what they see. This book is a valuable asset and will answer many of these questions. It offers an altern...
Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild is a memoir of exploration and survival that will inspired you to better tend to the planet, even if it’s simply tending the soil in your own back yard! "By recounting her own wilderness immersion, animal tracking, and farming experiences, [Dawn Again] deftly traces a line from the incredible complexity of nature’s wisdom to humanity’s vital role as ecologically responsible stewards of the land." —Allan Savory, author of Holistic Management, Third Edi...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by 'Indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' (Country Life) BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul.For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed Cockshutt wood, a particular wood - three and half acres of mixed woodland in south west Herefordshire - that...
In stark contrast, the photographs in Volume II (subtitled The Present) were taken over a period of seven years and concern the area that I now call home: a rugged and remote location on the western edge of the Great Basin. Again it is centered primarily upon Winter (as in the first volume), but the imagery is broader in scope and describes more of a seasonal arc - from the late dry season, when the cows come in from their high desert grazing allotments, when fire danger is at its peak and t...
"Yendegaia National Park" offers a visually spectacular tour of one of Earth's most remote and scenic national parks. In Chilean Patagonia on the grand island of Tierra del Fuego, the new park -- designated in 2014 -- was prompted by a donation of private land to the Chilean park system. When combined with adjacent federal land, the new protected area covers some 372,000 acres, and forms a habitat linkage between existing national parks in Chile and Argentina. Thus the new Yendegaia National Par...
This collection of short stories, poems and essays includes the work of more than forty writers from seven countries, writing about wildlife, adventure and the environment. “Leave room in your dry-bag, boat-box, rucksack, even fishing vest, for this rich collection of voices.” — CHRIS DOMBROWSKI, author of Body of Water With a variety of voices writing poetry, short stories and essays, ranging in themes from fly fishing deep in the Beartooth Mountains, surviving a tsunami in Thailand, experi...
Hidden India: A Journey to Where the Wild Things Are is a breathtaking new project featuring over 300 photographs by one of India’s foremost conservation ecologist and photographer, Latika Nath, and writing by journalist, essayist and environmentalist, Shloka Nath. The book showcases extraordinary images of landscapes and wildlife from across India, many of which are now critically endangered. It also features writing examining one of literature’s most rewarding and enduring themes: Our relati...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"If there's one book you pick up this summer, make it this one." - Washington Post"A wise and intimate book about a solitary woman, a biologist by training, who befriends a fox." - Yann Martel, author of Life of PiCatherine Raven has lived alone since the age of 15. After finishing her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana, in a place as far away from other people as possible. She viewed the house as a way statio...
Climbing a Few of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains - Volume 5 (Climbing a Few of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains, #5)
by Daniel H Wieczorek and Kazuya Numazawa