To really start to understand mate, you have to drink it more than hundred times. Mate, an indigenous ritual, transformed from a regional traditional drink in South America to a soft drink in Europe. MateLeaks explodes the myth of the bottle for Mate fans and takes the reader back to the roots where the mate is harvested and artisanality produced.

Fire Use in Northern Forest SurvivalThe why, when and where in justifying the use of fire.A good campfire holds a special fascintation for some and is therapeutic for others. Its warmth and calming effect may help to dissipate the insanities induced by modern life, something difficult to achieve sitting around a camp stove. Today, the concern for the possible negative ecological impacts of campfire usage in recreational camping promts us to examine current ...

This guide book is helpful for getting amazing tips and tricks about gardening. Main focus of this guide book is gardening in pots but you can learn many important things about gardening with the help of this guide book. This guide book is helpful for those who are doing gardening as a hobby. Those who are professionals in gardening are also able to get useful information and tips and tricks with the help of this guide book. More details are given in the form of chapters in table of conten...

"Muddy Max takes that eternal struggle between kids and parents---whether to play in or stay out of mud puddles---and turns it into an epic tale full of secrets and superpowers and one very important lesson: Don't eat mud. It's earthworm poop."--Matthew Holm, co-creator of Babymouse and Squish"What happens when genius-writer Elizabeth Rusch and super-artist Mike Lawrence get together? A book you won't be able to put down---or wash off! Not only does Muddy M...

A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. "Spectacular." (School Library Journal)Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on ...

An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panamá. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world.In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures in one of the world's last frontier lands. Here one still sees Ngäbe Buglé people, in their bare feet and traditional finery, walking through the village as if they are visiting from another pl...

The Tegu is the largest land reptile in Argentina, growing to five feet in length and known for its nasty disposition. In this amazing short story written by award winning author J.H. Soeder, you'll be right with him when he encounters a huge and wounded, wild Tegu on the back roads of Argentina. You will be amazed at the result and how the story ends! The only thing that Jon warns you is to "not try this at home!"

There have been many who believed the world would erupt into another major war ever since World War Two ended. First, the consensus was that since both the United States and Russia had nuclear weapons that they would eventually destroy themselves and everything on the planet.This almost came to fruition in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis when Russia tried to place missile silos in Cuba. Fortunately Russia stood down at the last minute and removed them before further damage was...

Ten top tips from author Dr J. Mark Dangerfield for those of us who enjoy the hustle and bustle of city life and wouldn't change it for the world. Yet we know that there might be something missing. That something is our innate love of nature that goes further than watching wildlife documentaries on our plasma screens. These tips help keep that connection real, even when we live in the city.

A hilarious, but true short story, based on J.H. Soeder's award winning book "True Tails", recounting another animal adventure while in Venezuela. It's the fascinating story of a group of small frogs and paper wasps who live in a little pond next to the front door of a well-known university college professor of zoology and his surprise when he discovered that these creatures could talk!This is one of many new short stories shared for the first time by the award-winning author, now ...

This is a Mexican codex, one in a series of ten codexes from the Aztec empire which the are being published for the first time ever in digital form this year.They're hundreds of years old, and date from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.Delight in them. Linger over the images.

This is a collection of intimate poems, originally titled My-ku. They were intended as a study in constrained free-verse associative thought, and of course they grew. Cycling, diving, life ... explored in four lines. These works were written between 2009 and 2012 in Victoria, B.C., Canada.