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  • Underland

    A Deep Time Journey - The bestselling nature book from the author of Is a River Alive?

    Follow Robert Macfarlane to the furthest corners of the globe....A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on... ... Les mer

    161,51 kr

  • How To Read Water

    A must-have for all nature lovers - perfect reading for your autumn adventures

    Learn how to read the clues and signs of water with this eye-opening and enthralling guide from Sunday Times-bestselling author Tristan Gooley, pioneer in the art of natural navigation----------'A wonderful read . . . It's one of those books that gives you a new pair of eyes to see the world in a different way. I've been transported by it . . . You'll love every minute, the writing is absolutely ... Les mer

    148,11 kr

  • Salmon

    A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

    "Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and ... Les mer

    138,47 kr

  • Danube

    In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the river's source in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the ... Les mer

    161,51 kr

  • The Hidden Seasons

    A beautiful and enthralling guide to understanding nature's calendar - perfect autumn reading for nature lovers

    READ THE HIDDEN CLUES AND SIGNS OF NATURE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH THE BESTSELLING PIONEER OF NATURAL NAVIGATION'Another triumph from our unsurpassed expert on how to read the signs of nature. Indeed, his best book yet, which is saying something!' - John Lewis-Stempel, author of MEADOWLAND'When we know what to look for and what it means, seasonal moments that were once hidden shine brightly . . . ... Les mer

    129,58 kr

  • Blood on the Tiber

    A rich and atmospheric historical mystery

    av B. M. Howard ...
    Serie Bok 2 - Gracchus & Vanderville Mysteries
    When Rome falls, so too will the worldChristmas, 1797. Erstwhile magistrate Felix Gracchus wakes in the French embassy beside the Tiber after a serious bout of malaria. Despite his poor health, the intricate puzzle of a local inheritance scandal proves irresistible.To his delight Lieutenant Vanderville has been assigned to the embassy intelligence section, tasked with pacifying the rabidly pro ... Les mer

    124,21 kr

  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Les mer

    112,26 kr

  • They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

    av John McPhee ...
    Serie serien Picador Shorts
    **A master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad.A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee’s twenty-sixth book, The Founding Fish.**McPhee, himself a shad fisherman, recounts the fascinating life and ways of this great American wayfarer, most famous for its Odyssean journey as it leaves the ocean in crowds of millions, ... Les mer

    97,26 kr

  • Riverlands of the Anthropocene

    Walking Our Waterways as Places of Becoming

    Serie serien Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global connections with environments everywhere.The book considers human becomings with urban waterways to ... Les mer

    584,26 kr

  • The Last River Rat

    Kenny Salwey's Life in the Wild

    Kenny Salwey is a modern-day American hermit who has lived most of his life in the Mississippi river bottoms, coming to know the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Now, Kenny shares his love of, and knowledge about, the mighty river. The Last River Rat is a seasonal look at Kenny’s unique life. Each chapter covers a month of Kenny’s year and starts by detailing his activities ... Les mer

    123,00 kr

  • A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)

    The Life and Death of the Columbia

    av Blaine Harden ...
    "Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book WorldAfter two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West’s most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who collaborated in its destruction, he traveled on a ... Les mer

    149,13 kr

  • The Cult of Water

    Serie Bok 3 - Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
    Aided by a witch and the magician Alan Moore, David Bramwell takes an occult journey back in time up the river Don, in search of the supernatural secrets of our waterways and to solve the mystery of a drowned village which has long haunted his memories. Travelling through the industrial destruction of our landscape he arrives in a pre-Christian era when well and springs were worshipped as living ... Les mer

    47,88 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Saving Grand Canyon

    Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth

    2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of AmericaThe Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific ... Les mer

    314,59 kr

  • A Year in Nature

    A Celebration of the Seasons

    av Lia Leendertz ...
    A Year in Nature is a captivating journey across the countryside through the seasons.A delightful voyage through the seasons, each page sparkles with wonder and gentle surprises. From spring's first blossoms dancing in the breeze to winter's quiet hush beneath a blanket of snow, A Year in Nature celebrates the magic woven into each month, where birds chatter like storytellers, leaves whirl in ... Les mer

    120,32 kr

  • Travels on the St. Johns River

    A selection of writings from naturalists John and William Bartram, who explored Florida in 1765In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the region’s plants, animals, geography, ecology, and Native ... Les mer

    175,89 kr

  • Canyons of the Colorado

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Wild Frontiers of the American West

    In 'Canyons of the Colorado,' John Wesley Powell presents a meticulous exploration of the Colorado River and its dramatic canyons, intertwining scientific observation with poetic description. Published in 1895, this work is both a travelogue and a natural history, reflecting the Victorian era's fascination with the American West. Powell's narrative is imbued with a sense of adventure and profound ... Les mer

    25,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Elementals: Water, Vol. 3

    Elementals, #3

    Serie Bok 3 - Elementals
    Water, Volume 3 of the 5-Volume Elementals series, is a stunning collection of essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.We are deeply dependent on water. In conjunction with the other elementals, water makes us and the living Earth ... Les mer

    231,56 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Swamps & Ponds Animal Life : 2nd Grade Geography Workbook Series

    Second Grade Books

    Serie serien Children's Environment Books
    Make complex subjects easy to understand by breaking them down into bits and pieces of information. The use of images is a powerful tool to drive attention to a wonderful resource for geography. This workbook is very child-friendly and will be very appealing even to those who despise reading. After all, there are only a few lines to read in this book, but more lessons can be learned. Grab a copy ... Les mer

    46,22 kr

  • Ichetucknee Springs - A History and Culture of a Florida Spring

    av P.C. Zick ...
    Ichetucknee Springs, a north Florida gem , remains a breathtaking natural wonder. For centuries, folks have enjoyed the crystal clear and cooling depths of the eight-named springs and the river formed from the first magnitude flow of those springs. Enjoy this look at the history and culture filled with stories from those who have experienced its peaceful beauty. This 20,000 word book provides the ... Les mer

    Gratis

  • Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities

    Streams of Environmental Justice

    Serie serien Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe. This book presents models and examples for organizing multiple stakeholders for purposes of waterway revitalization—if not restoration—within a context of fairness and environmental justice.After decades of neglect and misuse the challenge of cleaning ... Les mer

    472,36 kr

  • Two Ornithologists on the Lower Danube - Being a Record of a Journey to the Dobrogea and the Danube Delta with a Systematic List of the Birds Observed

    First published in 1925, this volume contains an interesting account of an ornithological trip to the Danube Delta, the second largest river delta in Europe primarily situated in Romania and the Ukraine. It offers brief descriptions of the countries travelled through and their people, but focuses on what the two English men got up to and what they saw in the way of bird life. This interesting and ... Les mer

    65,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Georgian Bay Ship Canal

    Canada's Abandoned National Dream

    The Georgian Bay Ship Canal was a river and lake canalization scheme designed to create a commercial waterway along the route of the voyageurs. It was the dream of Canadian businessmen and entrepreneurs for centuries. Originally a trade route for Indigenous peoples, it became Canada's first Trans-Canada Highway during the fur trade, greatly contributing to the economic development of the colonies ... Les mer

    66,25 kr

  • The Salton Sea

    An Account of Harriman’s Fight with the Colorado River

    av George Kennan ...
    In 1903, the US government tried to stop diversion of Colorado River water for use in the Imperial Valley. For that reason, and to bypass increased silting at the original intake, the California Development Company but a canal head in Mexico. A series of floods in 1905 destroyed a temporary dam and eroded the new canal intake. Water then rushed into the Imperial Canal-Alamo River system, allowing ... Les mer

    36,96 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Ameritrekking Adventures: Visiting Missouri Headwaters State Park in Montana

    av Joseph Whelan ...
    This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 6 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet.This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Missouri Headwaters State Park. The park is in Montana, not Missouri. The visit took place in the same year (1997) as the third Ameritrek, the subject of the ... Les mer

    9,17 kr