The Selva Maya (Jungle of the Maya) is one of the world's most magical yet least appreciated placesーan enormous tropical forest that encompasses much of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico's Yucatan Peni……続きを見る
The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed na……続きを見る
著者:Diane Ackerman
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2009年09月28日
A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman a……続きを見る
«Данная личность отличается тем, что пытается превратить свою жизнь в нечто однородное, единообразное, локальное, цельное. Этой даме всю жизнь кажется, что человеку слишком мало времени и пространст……続きを見る
Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied heavily on books. Without their basic function of enabling the different kinds of animals and plants to be described ……続きを見る
著者:Colin Jerolmack
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年03月20日
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisan……続きを見る
This group of relatively large, colourful and familiar insects are a very popular subject of study because their behaviour can be observed without the use of elaborate equipment. This edition is exc……続きを見る
Just Imagine! Command and rule over the animal kingdom: horses, bats, rats, insects, snakes, dogs, cats, toads, frogs, birds and more.
Only the most unusual is offered. Much more than a simple train……続きを見る
«Рассматриваемая личность любит по-королевски себя вести, покровительственно и с размахом, и тяготеет к роскоши. Его основной философией можно считать утверждение: «Лучше быть первым и лучшим всегда……続きを見る
Britains Structure and Scenery deals with the physical background, the stage on which the drama of life is played and which provides the fundamental environment for plants, newnaturalists.com
It wou……続きを見る
As wry as Bill Bryson’s I’m a Stranger Here Myself, as insightful as Tracy Kidder’s House, here is smart, engaging tale of one man’s stuggle to restore his family’s new homeーa decrepit old mansion……続きを見る
One fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of fishーor fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species. This is but one of many things the authors of this fas……続きを見る
Poison Ivy Acres, 250 acres of wilderness in Renfrew County, Ontario, long dedicated to the preservation of natural habitat, has been home to nature writer Carol Bennett McCuaig for many years. Her ……続きを見る
How do we extend the 'conservation ethic' to include the cultural links between local populations and their physical environments? Can considerations of human capital be incorporated into the defini……続きを見る
著者:Sigurd F. Olson
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年07月04日
“Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole……続きを見る
Roger Redfern wrote his much-loved Country Diary for almost thirty years. This is a selection of his favourite entries for the Peak District, in a lyrical ramble through the most beautiful spots in ……続きを見る
A complete illustrated guide to these enigmatic seabirds
Petrels, albatrosses, and storm-petrels are among the most beautiful yet least known of all the world's birds, living their lives at sea far ……続きを見る
Pesticides and Pollution examines the problems of pollution of air, land, river, and the sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leakages, over-drainage, mist……続きを見る
著者:Walter Parks
出版社: Walter Parks
発売日: 2015年05月12日
We were watching old Tom show us his string of fish. When he threw them back in the water the alligator grabbed them. The boat rocked violently. Tom fell overboard. The Alligator got him.
We ran for……続きを見る
著者:Walt Whitman
出版社: Wilder Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2015年06月10日
From one of America's best loved and most important poets comes a masterpiece. Leaves of Grass is considered by many to be the greatest collection of poetry ever produced by an American. And this, t……続きを見る
This ebook edition does not include illustrations.
‘In Richard Fortey’s capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic – a remarkable and fascinat……続きを見る
著者:David Suzuki
出版社: Allen & Unwin
発売日: 2003年11月01日
Drawing from David Suzuki's published and unpublished writings, this collection reveals the underlying passions and philosophies that have informed his work over a lifetime. In these incisive and pr……続きを見る
Honorable Mention, Southern Books Competition, 1999
Known to many as "the butterflies of the bird world," wood warblers allure even the most experienced and discriminating birders. Their annual migr……続きを見る
In Foxhunting in Paradise, a major work of research and practical exploration in and around the hunting field, Michael Clayton brings entirely up to date histories of the Quorn, Belvoir, Cottesmore ……続きを見る
Volume 1 of 2. First published in 1897. This edition includes the illustrations that appeared in the original (all of which are black and white). According to Wikipedia: "John James Audubon (Jean-Ja……続きを見る
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!続きを見る
Nature's Year is an almanac of key events in nature occurring in Central and Eastern Ontario, a region that extends from the Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay in the west to Ottawa and Cornwall in th……続きを見る
Wetlands are often seen as the ultimate symbol of beauty and tranquillity, their clear waters sheltering mysterious animals in a world where change is gentle and slow, from dragonflies skimming abov……続きを見る