Environmentalists & Naturalists

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307462213Author William SouderFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805006032Author Edward AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 272g

Candido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native...

Our love of gorillas has long been reflected in literature and films-Tarzan, King Kong, The Jungle Book, Gorillas in the Mist-and their popularity continues to grow. Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771606240Author Bobbi HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Education as if people and planet mattered In Transformative Learning, Satish Kumar reflects on the legacy of Schumacher College, a beacon of innovation that fosters an ecological-based, holistic model of higher education built around the college's...

A special edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of the environmental movement-plus original photographs and other writings on environmental ethicsSince his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable...

It all began one late spring morning when a robin unexpectedly fluttered into Bryony’s bedroom. Unfazed, it perched on her dressing table briefly before flitting from room to room, eventually leaving through the kitchen window. With each passing day, the...

Imagine yourself alone in the wilderness holding two lawbreaking suspects at gunpoint. No onlookers, no backup. Just you in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, with suspects who would cheerfully kill you if they thought they could get away with it. Bob...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921073700Author Rick ShineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland Publishers

The grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer's face. The bear kept coming, closer and closer, as Bancroft snapped...

In the world of Texas conservation, the figure of Andrew Sansom looms large. Few can match Sansom's contributions to the natural landscape of Texas, such as the over 500,000 acres of state parks and wildlife management areas he helped protect during his...

The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, the river has been left to rise and fall naturally with the seasons, overflowing annually into the adjoining bottomland forest...

The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, the river has been left to rise and fall naturally with the seasons, overflowing annually into the adjoining bottomland forest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250756503Author Françoise Malby-AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St...

Before the 1970s few women were employed by the United States Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws meant that the Forest Service began to hire talented women in professional careers. For the first time women...

Reflections on a half century's worth of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama In 1971 James Seay Brown Jr. moved to Birmingham with his young family to start his first full-time teaching job at Samford University...

"I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is...

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In Bird...

In this marriage of memoir and manifesto, Elizabeth May reflects on her extraordinary life and the people and experiences that have formed her and informed her beliefs about democracy, climate change, and other crucial issues facing Canadians. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602233232Author Jeff FairFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

"I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is...

A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon offers profiles of twenty-one conservationists and activists who have made enduring contributions to the preservation of Oregon's wild and natural places and its high quality of life. These stories speak to...

Efforts to preserve wild places in the United States began with the allure of scenic grandeur: Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon. But what about the many significant natural sites too small or fragile to qualify as state or federal parks? George...

When Louise Wagenknecht's family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked together in the woods and the lumber mills of northern California's Klamath country. Logging and lumber...

An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist.During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and...

In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new,...

In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree named--according to one writer--because its fruit was not fit for a dog. As...

In this marriage of memoir and manifesto, Elizabeth May reflects on her extraordinary life and the people and experiences that have formed her and informed her beliefs about democracy, climate change, and other crucial issues facing Canadians. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178074Author Thom HenleyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 589gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Open Midnight weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Brooke Williams's year alone with his dog ground truthing wilderness maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 made his way with a group of...

Moving through the settings of her life-red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities-Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world. In essays both personal and profoundly...

"Homero is one of the planet's great environmental heroes."—Jacob Scherr, Director of Global Strategy & Advocacy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC News of the Earth chronicles Homero Aridjis's relationship with the natural world through...

In these inspiring letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki speaks eloquently about their future and challenges them to be agents of change and to do everything with commitment and passion. He also explains why sports, fishing, feminism, and failure...

What do you do when your world ends? At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her one a grumpy, grieving introvert,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947845107Author Melissa CrandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ooligan PressPublisher Ooligan PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm...

John Price's Man Killed by Pheasant is a loving ode to the prairies of the Midwest, to west central Iowa, and to family connections that stretch from his Swedish ancestors to his parents to his wife and children. Throughout he embraces 'the opportunity,...

One of America’s most significant architects of conservation and the environment, Stewart Udall, comes to life in this environmental biography. Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental...

While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781619024489Author Gary FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count...