Nature 91

An updated edition of the popular Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland in association with the Wildlife Trusts. Stunningly illustrated and simple to use, this brand new, fully updated, ed……続きを見る

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 24 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This short s……続きを見る

The recent floods that ravaged Queensland saw three-quarters of the state declared a disaster zone from the capital city on the Brisbane River to remote rural communities and caused billions of doll……続きを見る

***The memoir of a scientist and the wild silk moths he studies***Biologist Michael Collins has been studying wild silk moths since he was a boy. This family ー which includes the largest and most c……続きを見る

The Natural Heritage of Illinois is an engaging collection of ninety-three essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. Written in lively, accessible prose, the book discusses……続きを見る

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 31 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This short s……続きを見る

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 33 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This short s……続きを見る

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 36 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet. This short s……続きを見る

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world ー the emergence and grow……続きを見る

Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. “The desert,” writes conservation biologist Christopher Norm……続きを見る

Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina–Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America’s most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adven……続きを見る

The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. Scott Taylor, who has been photographing the coast for a……続きを見る

Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel’s life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. “The eeler who explained the animal’s life cy……続きを見る

Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina’s inner coast. In each of the fif……続きを見る

Jim Dean, longtime editor of Wildlife in North Carolina, offers his personal observations on the pleasures and frustrations of hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor pursuits. Dogs That Point,……続きを見る

The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically mi……続きを見る

North Carolina’s 1.2 million acres of national forestland are some of our state’s most distinctive and botanically diverse areas. Veteran nature writer Johnny Molloy welcomes you to enjoy these beau……続きを見る

In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV’s Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, sea……続きを見る

In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of t……続きを見る

The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of wome……続きを見る

Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannas and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat de……続きを見る

The Secret Lives of Fishermen is Jim Dean’s second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and often humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, hiking, and campin……続きを見る

An illustrated narrative that interweaves the shifting seasons of the Northwest Coast with the experiences of a conservation biologist surveying thousands of kilometres of open ocean in order to unc……続きを見る

Geprägt von wunderschönen Landschaften, wie dem Wattenmeer an der Nordsee, den weißen Sandstränden an der Ostsee und dem vielseitigen Binnenland, ist das nördlichste Bundesland immer einen Besuch we……続きを見る

Extrait : "Goethe tint un jour ce singulier propos : – Savez-vous, dit-il, ce qui caractérise le plus les Français ? – Leur esprit ? – Non. – Leur galanterie ? – Non. – Leur légèreté ? – Non. La sym……続きを見る

Extrait : "Parmi les animaux supérieurs, il s'en trouve un grand nombre qui, parvenus à une certaine période de leur existence, ont besoin d'une habitation, soit comme abri contre le mauvais temps, ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Lorsqu'en 1747, M. de Tourny, intendant de la généralité de Bordeaux, commença l'exécution des plans auxquels la capitale de la Guienne allait devoir cet aspect grandiose, cette régularit……続きを見る

Extrait : "Ce livre n'est pas seulement le résumé des nombreux travaux qui ont jeté les bases d'une science des tempêtes. Nous avons aussi tenté d'y réunir les lumières éparses dans les œuvres des m……続きを見る

Extrait : "Depuis le jour où l'homme a , pour la première fois, soulevé l'épiderme terrestre pour y creuser des sillons et pour y tracer des chemins ; depuis l'époque où il a su pénétrer dans le sei……続きを見る

Extrait : "La vigne (Vitis vinifera, Linn.), originaire de l'Asie, selon toute probabilité, et introduite par les Phéniciens d'abord en Grèce, ensuite en Sicile et en Italie, puis dans la Gaule, aux……続きを見る