Environmentalists & Naturalists

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241060Author Adam ShoaltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780307464316Author Darrin LundeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800314108Author Simeon B. KpoturuFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century," naturalists for the first time were commonly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904078609Author Des ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 598Imprint Langford PressPublisher Langford PressWeight(grams) 1820g

Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens harried by the packs of stray dogs that roamed the 19th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740247Author Terry Tempest WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771603553Author Robert OsborneFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

This one-of-a-kind, lavishly illustrated anthology celebrates Audubon's connection to the sea through both his words and art. The American naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851) is widely remembered for his iconic paintings of American birdlife...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735279681Author Alexandra MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis-one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future.With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing,...

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth century's...

The captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic over the course of six decades is a front-row seat to iconic feats of exploration, from the successful hunt for the Titanic to Jane Goodall's field studies, offering a rare portrait...

Newly available in paperback, Dan Fagin's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution is environmental reporting at its best. The true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River won the 2014 Pulitzer...

Small World, Big Ideas collects twelve of the most inspiring and courageous activists together to share their stories and present an inspiring vision of what each of us can do to build a better world today.There's an activist in all of us, and you don't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904078593Author Des ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Langford PressPublisher Langford PressWeight(grams) 1635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625168085Author Moshood Ademola FayemiwoFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Grand Prize 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Mountain Literature Richard K. Nelson was the host of the national public radio series, "Encounters" Nelson was an anthropologist who lived with Alaska...

"[Daniel Pauly] is an iconoclastic fisheries scientist ... who is so decidedly global in his life and outlook that he is nearly a man without a country."-NEW YORK TIMES "Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."-TED DANSON ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Ecology/Environment) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781608682393Author William PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint New World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387693074Author Rauf AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Speaking Tiger BooksPublisher Speaking Tiger BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735279667Author Alexandra MortonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013584Author Fransje Van RielFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm

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...

W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and...

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,...

W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England. He never returned to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307360083Author Rob StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage CanadaPublisher Vintage CanadaWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century. The founder of the social ecology movement, Bookchin was presenting and publishing foundational ideas about issues like air...

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...

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 9780998367767Author Ann SouthcombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Applegate Valley PublishingPublisher Applegate Valley PublishingWeight(grams)...