Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arn……続きを見る
Residents and visitors have an urban-outdoor haven in Little Rock: actually more than two dozen of them. They are the hiking trails, biking trails as well as the canoe and kayak-read waterways withi……続きを見る
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Map of North America (exclusive of Mexico) showing the eight regions into which the country is divided according……続きを見る
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times, Books of the Year
What is a tree? As this celebration of……続きを見る
A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives.
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著者:Jane Loudon
出版社: LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS
発売日: 2014年10月06日
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When I was a child, I never could learn Botany. There was something in the Linnean system (the only one then taught) excessively repugnant to me; I never could remembe……続きを見る
The taxonomy and identification of hawthorns (Crataegus) in eastern North America is one of the most notorious challenges in regional botany. This book was written to fill a long-standing void in ha……続きを見る
This illustrated tour of the world's most extraordinary trees provides an insight into some of the natural world's most astonishing structures. Through 100 photographs, The Beauty of Trees tells the……続きを見る
The 100th volume of the prestigious New Naturalist series, written by one of Britain's best-known naturalists, explores the significance and history of woodlands on the British landscape
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著者:Ben Law
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2013年03月28日
Ben Law’s incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly Nut Wood.
Having travelled to Papua New Guinea and the Amazon, obser……続きを見る
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.
This is the perfect pocket guide for nature enthusiasts keen to identify the w……続きを見る
著者:Jim Robbins
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年04月17日
The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch’s quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystemーas well as a hopeful lesson about how e……続きを見る
Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks,……続きを見る
A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.
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著者:R. Bruce Allison
出版社: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
発売日: 2014年05月20日
In Every Root an Anchor, writer and arborist R. Bruce Allison celebrates Wisconsin's most significant, unusual, and historic trees. More than one hundred tales introduce us to trees across the state……続きを見る
Pine trees, admired for their resilience, have been the subjects of artists for centuries, symbolizing wisdom and longevity in China and Japan. Their symbolic significance spans cultures and time, f……続きを見る
“Flowers of Mountain and Plain” is intended primarily for travelers and flower lovers who wish a short cut to recognizing flowers seen on excursions or from car windows. It may also serve as a souve……続きを見る
Did you know that you can use a tree stump as a compass? Do you know what makes Maple trees explode? What do the leaves of an oak tree look like? And where is the tallest tree in the world? The answ……続きを見る
著者:John Manning
出版社: Penguin Random House South Africa
発売日: 2011年11月24日
Sasol First Field Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa provides fascinating insight into the succulents of the region. With the help of full-colour photo graph, distribution maps and easy-to-read ……続きを見る
The most ancient and least disturbed forest ecosystem in eastern North America clings to the vertical cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. Prior to 1988 it had escaped detection even though the entire ……続きを見る
At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came t……続きを見る
The mangrove shorelines, lush wetlands, open pinelands, and shady hammocks of south Florida and the Keys harbor a tremendous diversity of trees. This field guide includes complete coverage of 150 sp……続きを見る
著者:Robert A. Vines
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年12月19日
This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the stateーthe Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas. Eastern, northern……続きを見る
著者:Piet van Wyk
出版社: Penguin Random House South Africa
発売日: 2013年09月12日
Pocket Guide – Trees of Southern Africa is an authoritative introduction to the region’s trees, describing and illustrating 132 species, both indigenous and exotic.
Species accounts feature multiple……続きを見る
著者:Robert A. Vines
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2015年01月07日
This comprehensive and compact volume is a field guide to all the native and naturalized trees of the north Texas zone, including the Blackland Prairies, the Cross Timbers region, and both the Rolli……続きを見る
This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It bui……続きを見る
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THE HAWKS.
Among the birds that are most useful to man may be classed the Hawks. They, with the vultures, the eagles and the owls, belong to the bird order Raptores, or birds o……続きを見る
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THE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. (Loxia leucoptera.)
The Crossbills, together with the finches, the sparrows, the grosbeaks, the redpolls, the goldfinches, the towhees, the c……続きを見る