Environmentalists & Naturalists

This is the first full biography of the great Scottish plant collector Robert Fortune, famous for working in China and Japan from 1843 until 1861. This detailed presentation of his life includes an extensive analysis of his travels, plant collections and...

Living Off-grid in Wales examines the new policy context for off-grid rural development by contrasting the policy approach with the activist version of going off-grid. The examples examined in the book feed into much broader debates about the possibility...

Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to...

A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby-who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century- and his influence on how we understand American wildlife.In 1722, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony. Over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982182762Author Naira de GraciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 231g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980687149Author Sarah R PyeFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Estralita PublishingPublisher Estralita PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Includes a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales and an introduction by Jane Goodall Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345326492Author Edward AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down.Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit...

An artist's uniquely personal journey across AmericaIn the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628727661Author Dan EatherleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 451gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998255507Author Bird ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Nyigma ProductionsPublisher Nyigma ProductionsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250033376Author Daphne SheldrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a "heartfelt and refreshing" (New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519634Author June RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joins forces with a Vermont beekeeper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998367767Author Ann SouthcombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Applegate Valley PublishingPublisher Applegate Valley PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416598Author Merilyn SimondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada's most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet. In 1961, a Canadian geologist named John "Jock" Tuzo Wilson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946299017Author Sandy SistiFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Zo'o MediaPublisher Zo'o MediaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCurt D. Meine is senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation. He is the author of Aldo Leopold:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989930413Author Carolyn JourdanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Zo'o MediaPublisher Zo'o MediaWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Maria Mies' achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of "housewifisation", the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights...

The amazing story of one man's obsession with an enigmatic and deadly reptile.Raymond Ditmars (1876 1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York's famous Bronx Zoo, brought cold-blooded animals to public attention as never before. Through wildly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561646227Author D. Bruce MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037088Author Gerald DurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 206gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 131mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250751393Author Kinari WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This splendid portrait of Conant . . . illuminates the life of a pivotal figure in the making of U.S. nuclear, scientific, educational, and foreign policy for almost half a century. But the book is much more:...

* Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction * Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize * Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award "Charlotte Gill writes...

"If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness." Edward Abbey In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734674019Author Vivian ConanFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Authentic and inspiring, Everything that Rises personalizes the realities of climate change by paralleling the relationship we have with our planet to the way we interact within our own homes. Many Millennials begin their professional lives in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807085639Author Emily Herring WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620901789Author Keli SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Keli SmithPublisher Keli SmithWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929702148Author Joan Easton LentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Mission Creek StudiosPublisher Mission Creek StudiosWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971890732Author William WassermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Penn's Woods PublicationsPublisher Penn's Woods PublicationsWeight(grams) 140g

Choice Outstanding Academic Title "In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997592146Author Syeita Rhey-FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Difference Makers MediaPublisher Difference Makers MediaWeight(grams) 104g