Lakes category: 88 books
Nature's Year in the Kawarthas
A Guide to the Unfolding Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Nature’s Year in the Kawarthas is an almanac of key events occurring in the natural world over the course of a year in the Kawartha Lakes district – and in cottage country in general. Covering all areas of our flora and fauna as well as weather and the night sky, the book is a month-by-month chronicle...
Reviving Lakes and Wetlands in People's Republic of China, Volume 3
Best Practices and Prospects for the Sanjiang Plain Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of literature devoted to various aspects of the Sanjiang Plain wetlands including their ecological values. Building on lessons...
by Lisa M. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state's controversial decision to dam the region's rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever. Lost communities, forgotten crossroads, dissolving racetracks and even entire towns disappeared, with remnants occasionally...
Eager
The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Washington Post “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction”
Science News “Favorite Science Books of 2018”
Booklist “Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018”
"A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about...
Beneath The Surface
A Natural History of a Fisherman's Lake
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Each summer millions experience the beauty of America's lakes—the whirl of sights and sounds as boats cut through the water and birds call to each other from surrounding trees. Now biologist and ichthyologist Bruce M. Carlson takes nature lovers to the side of the lake that few will experience firsthand—a...
by George K. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various...
Mono Lake
From Dead Sea to Environmental Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake’s vast bird populations. Controversy between environmentalists and the City of Los Angeles brought so much attention to Mono...
Governing Transboundary Waters
Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award!
With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose...
Never Light a Match in the Outhouse
Funny Stories from Cottage Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Cottage Country: a place for antics, shenanigans and perfectly executed belly flops.
Spending time at the cottage is arguably the quintessential summer experience. Whether one travels there to swim in the lake, go fishing, pick berries, or lie out on the dock and watch the stars appear one...
by Ellie Whitney, D Bruce Means, Anne Rudloe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps. Introduces readers to the trees and plants,...
The Guide to Walden Pond
An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America’s most iconic places
This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness.
Using...
Walden Pond
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today....
The Big Marsh
The Story of a Lost Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County's Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a fabulous philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff.