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Island home: a landscape memoir
Par Tim Winton. 2017
A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton…
and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him--rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp--has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape--and its influence on the island nation's identity and art--vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted--in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes--Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers. Provided by publisher Adult. UnratedThe river that made Seattle: a human and natural history of the Duwamish
Par B. J Cummings. 2020
The Duwamish River was a source of food for the Duwamish tribe and part of its identity. Its lower reaches…
became an industrial river, straightened and polluted, after the settlers arrived. Cleaning it up involves conservationists, Native Americans, industries, and government agencies. Adult. UnratedVuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
Par Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- GoodreadsColored leaves
Par Judith Rycroft. 2019
In Colored Leaves Judith Rycroft takes the reader on "frequent journeys through (her) thoughts" in poems the lines of which,…
as well as their exquisite imagery, are so strikingly original that one feels the need to read them aloud immediately to enjoy their auditory delight also. This is a collection of poems common to everyone's experience - love, loss, hope, faith, family - but shared with a depth of perspective granted to very few of us. Rycroft is a poet who looks at a world she shares with us and truly perceives it. Nothing speaks more truly of her prodigious artistry than these lines from A Poet's Palette: "Art holds the moment/when the heart/heard the song." We hear Judith's music and applaud. Carl SennhennNature obscura: a city's hidden natural world
Par Kelly Brenner. 2020
People see cities as human creations, but nature remains if you know where to look. The author describes the creatures…
that make Seattle home, from slime molds to muskrats to dragonflies. Adult. UnratedFour wings and a prayer: caught in the mystery of the monarch butterflies
Par Sue Halpern. 2001
Describes a trip into Mexico accompanying a cowboy entomologist tracking the monarch's migration. Combines scientific knowledge and research on this…
butterfly population, profiles of people who study and follow monarchs, and travel adventures.Green metropolis: the extraordinary landscapes of New York City as nature, history, and design
Par Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. 2016
People think of New York City as the land of skyscrapers, but the parks and green spaces are remarkable. They…
include nature refuges and bird sanctuaries as well as the celebrated Central Park. AdultLas guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSHarvest of grief: grasshopper plagues and public assistance in Minnesota, 1873-78
Par Annette Atkins. 2004
Vermont wild: adventures of Vermont Fish & Game Wardens. Volume 1
Par Megan Price. 2011
Watershed: attending to body and Earth in distress
Par Ranae Hanson. 2021
A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between…
the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem. AdultA humorous, thought-provoking account of one man's struggle to acclimate to primitive life in Vermont. In the tradition of Bill…
Bryson, syndicated columnist and author Michael Tougias, shares the hilarious tales of his transformation from a naïve flatlander into an accomplished outdoor writer coping with and learning to love a little piece of wilderness in New England. Adult. UnratedBecoming native to this place
Par Wes Jackson. 1996
Six essays praising the virtues of sustainable and organic agriculture, especially for rural communities who have concluded that industrial agricultural…
practices provide an inadequate living wage for their residents. With topics ranging from American history, to the anecdotes of small town farmers, to political commentary, these essays argue that society can only be salvaged if and when people reject city life and return to the landHearth: a global conversation on community, identity, and place
Par Annick Smith, Susan O'Connor. 2019
A multicultural anthology of essays and poems about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our homes…
and in our world. Editions, 2018 Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Strong language. ViolenceH de halcón
Par Helen Macdonald. 2020
"Cambridge lecturer describes the year she spent training a goshawk, a decision she came to after the sudden death of…
her father in 2007. Discusses the field of falconry, which her father avidly practiced, the grieving process, and author T.H. White's book The Goshawk." -- Provided by NLSNacida libre: la historia de la leona Elsa (Especiales (Capitán Swing))
Par Joy Adamson. 2019
"The wife of a Kenya game warden recounts the couple's unique relationship with the lioness Elsa. Recalls raising the orphaned…
cub for three years and ingeniously training her to fend for herself. Describes how Elsa recognized her human friends even after she returned to the wild." -- Provided by NLSManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
Par Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsCorralling the Colorado: the first fifty years of Lower Colorado River Authority
Par Jimmy Banks. 1988
The history of the Lower Colorado River Authority's first fifty years is filled with drama, political intrigue, legal battles and…
engineering feats. This book includes early rice farmers and tells how they "rustled" water with dynamite and shotguns, but concentrates on the political process that took over seventy-five years to control the rampaging recurrent flood waters of the ColoradoRaising the dead: A True Story Of Death And Survival
Par Phillip Finch. 2008
On New Year's Day, 2005, David Shaw traveled halfway around the world on a journey that took him to a…
steep crater in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, a site known as Bushman's Hole. His destination was nearly 900 feet below the water's surface. On January 8th he descended into the water. Don Shirley, Shaw's friend, was one of the few people in the world qualified to follow where Shaw was about to go. Twenty-five minutes later, one of the men was dead. The other was in mortal peril, and would spend the next 10 hours struggling to survive, existing literally from breath to breath. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but is also a compelling human story of friendship, heroism, ambition, and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. AdultWhat should a clever moose eat?: natural history, ecology, and the North Woods
Par John Pastor. 2016
"How long should a leaf live? When should blueberries ripen? And what should a clever moose eat? Questions like these…
may seem simple or downright strange-yet they form the backbone of natural history, a discipline that fostered some of our most important scientific theories, from natural selection to glaciation. Through careful, patient observations of the organisms that live in an area, their distributions, and how they interact with other species, we gain a more complete picture of the world around us, and our place in it. In What Should a Clever Moose Eat?, John Pastor explores the natural history of the North Woods, an immense and complex forest that stretches from the western shore of Lake Superior to the far coast of Newfoundland. The North Woods is one of the most ecologically and geologically interesting places on the planet, with a host of natural history questions arising from each spruce or sugar maple. From the geological history of the region to the shapes of leaves and the relationship between aspens, caterpillars, and predators, Pastor delves into a captivating range of topics as diverse as the North Woods themselves. Through his meticulous observations of the natural world, scientists and nonscientists alike learn to ask natural history questions and form their own theories, gaining a greater understanding of and love for the North Woods-and other natural places precious to them. In the tradition of Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau, John Pastor is a joyful observer of nature who makes sharp connections and moves deftly from observation to theory. Take a walk in John Pastor's North Woods-you'll come away with a new appreciation for details, for the game trails, beaver ponds, and patterns of growth around you, and won't look at the natural world in the same way again." -- Provided by publisher