Environment category: 6530 books
Weather Wise
Reading Weather Signs
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Weather Wise is a highly practical, lively and very accessible guide to weather phenomena for anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Suitable for sailors, walkers, climbers, skiers, fishermen, golfers and holidaymakers, it explains how forthcoming weather will affect them, as well as how to predict what...
by Harris, John R
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
At winter's end in 1947, driven by the devastating loss of a son killed in World War II, naturalist Edwin Way Teale followed the dawning spring season northward in an amazing 17,000-mile odyssey from the Everglades to Maine. He wrote about the adventure in North with the Spring. Its sequel Wandering...
River-Horse
A Voyage Across America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
New York Times bestseller: “A coast-to-coast journey by way of great rivers, conducted by a contemporary master of travel writing” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this memoir brimming with history, humor, and wisdom, the author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth “voyages across the country, from Atlantic...
Smokejumper
A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature’s blazes.
Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every...
The Last Great Ape
A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The true story of an adventurer-turned-warrior fighting poachers and traffickers to protect animals from extinction.
Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind...
by Peter Matthiessen
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for...
Paddlenorth
Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of ’s 54 day paddling adventure on the Back River, in the northern wilderness of the subarctic, as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, and treacherous rapids. The perils include rising tensions among the group, but these are...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain. "Parallel journeys of mind-boggling proportions a 225-mile raft tour of river runners, and an expertly guided trip back through time to trace our origins. As the author explores such natural wonders as fossils, waterfalls, rapids and stars, he visits nearly...
by Gordon Groene, Janet Groene
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Take your home on the road, and turn your wanderlust into action
Praise for previous edition:
"A perfect guide."--Anchorage Daily News
"Honest, insightful advice."--Northeast Outdoors
"If any of our family or friends were contemplating becoming fulltime RVers, the first...
by Stephen O'Shea
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
“An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of...
In the Shadow of the Carmens
Afield with a Naturalist in the Northern Mexican Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Just across the Rio Grande from West Texas in the state of Coahuila, México, the mountain ranges of the Maderas del Carmen rise majestically. Often called magical or mystical, they have stirred imagination for centuries. Stories of bandits, Indians, ghosts, incredible flora and fauna, cool forests,...
The Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march.
A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even...
by Alexander Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
What do you do if your aircraft ditches at sea? Or your building is on fire? Or you are the victim of a terrorist attack? Would you make the right decision to save yourself and the lives of others? Crisis Survival is a complete handbook to any crisis that may suddenly arise, from food or water shortages,...
Is Honey Vegan?
and other ethical questions about bees
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
"For much of the past 10 years, beekeepers, primarily in the United States and Europe, have been reporting annual hive losses of 30 percent or higher, substantially more than is considered normal or sustainable. But this winter, many U.S. beekeepers experienced losses of 40 to 50 percent or more"...