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81. The Vanishing Coast by Elizabeth Leland | |
Hardcover: 141
Pages
(1992-06)
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A wonderful Kuralt-style exploration of the Carolina Coast The author interviewed and photographed: descendants ofslaves who still make sweetgrass baskets in the old tradition; the last ofthe old-time clam rakers, crab pickers, and boat builders who discuss whatnew ways have done to their livelihoods, the "Live-Aboards",folks who left their nine-to-five lives to live on modest boats along thewater's edge; the Menhaden Chanteymen,a group of singing black fishermanwho were once an institution in the days "when boats were made ofwood, and men of steel"; the "Hoi Toiders" of the OuterBanks who still speak with the same accent as their seventeenth centuryBritish ancestors. A great browsing and coffee-table book, would makean excellent gift for anyone who has a home on the coast or wants to visit.For anyone who wants a glimpse of the way things were along the vanishingsouthern coast, or to see what remains with new eyes. ... Read more |
82. The Seaside Reader | |
Hardcover: 314
Pages
(1992-12)
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A quality browse musing on the coastal experience |
83. Creaturely and Other Essays by Devin Johnston | |
Kindle Edition: 128
Pages
(2009-09-01)
list price: US$14.95 Asin: B002IIEVZM Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description "The author puts forward a bracing theory of partial empathy....Johnston's searching book of thought-probes goes a long way toward allowing the reader the grounding that would allow him to make empathic contacts with the animals over which he ponders....Each time another animal becomes extinct a special and irretrievable way of looking at the world is gone....Perhaps the more people that read this book, the more this absence would be poignantly felt."—The Brooklyn Rail "Creaturely, like its subjects, eludes definition. It's a book of exquisite essays—or are they prose poems—that tessellate into something larger: a meditation, perhaps, or a vision. Johnston's subject is at once the absolute otherness of the creatures with whom we share the world's everyday spaces—dogs, owls, mice, squirrels, crows—and the worth of our attempts to get to know them. Modest, calm, and beautiful, this is an exceptional book."—Robert Macfarlane Devin Johnston teaches at St. Louis University. He was named a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Sources, published by Turtle Point Press. Customer Reviews (1)
Solid with an Unobstrusive Elegance |
84. Coming Out Of The Woods: The Solitary Life Of A Maverick Naturalist by Wallace Kaufman | |
Hardcover: 352
Pages
(2000-05-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description At times Kaufman falls into cantankerousness, grumbling at urbanenvironmentalists who, he holds, unduly romanticize life in the wilds--"Noone," he writes, "lives happily ever after alone in a wild place"--andtaking potshots at the likes of Henry DavidThoreau, who lived in his famed woodland cabin for only a fraction ofthe time that Kaufman lived in his. These ill-tempered lapses, which readlike afterthoughts meant to attract controversy, don't detract too badlyfrom the rest of Kaufman's generally easygoing memoir, which, all in all,is a worthy addition to the library devoted to country life. --GregoryMcNamee Customer Reviews (5)
Insight into our relationship with nature and its salvation
COMPLEXITY AND BEAUTY Orrin Pilkey James B. Duke Professor of Geology Emeritus Duke University
Dangerous Book Our local paper (like Kaufman I'm from Pittsboro, NC) printed a letter to the editor from a woman who had read Kaufman's new book, and believed it.Now she is sure recycling is bad for the environment and that the rain forests aren't disappearing. Here are some "facts" that aren't true, that I know enough to correct. I'm also going to give the sources of my information (unlike Kaufman). When talking about a neighbor's new porch (p. 127) he says, "'Those red oak boards will rot,' I warned him...Three years later, the boards had turned black and mushrooms began to grow out of them."He goes on to say of red oak boards that you have "to drench them with preservatives" to make them last.Now it is true that milled red oak will rot, but people make riven shingles out of red oak and they last for 30+ years without preservatives. Roy Underhill, in THE WOODWRIGHT'S COMPANION, p.154 says, "Since the splitting follows the grain of the oak from end to end, the exposed surface is made up of tiny tubes torn open down their whole length... Many folks like to shave shingles to a taper and a smooth surface. If you were to do this on a riven red-oak shingle, you would cut into the pores of the wood, open the grain, and allow it to become saturated with water, and it would rot in no time. Sawn shingles are just as bad or worse." Kaufman also talks about owl pellets (see p.148), "An owl pellet (in common language we have to call it a turd)..." An owl pellet is a bundle of hair, bones, &c. that an owl regurgitates after it's meal.However, my dictionary's definition of 'turd' is, "a piece of dung." 'Dung' led me to 'excrement', the definition being, "waste matter from the bowels." On p. 125 he says, "The house had endured because builders had selected the very best yellow pine and white oak. They had used only slow growth heartwood that is heavy with crowded annual growth rings." Back to Roy Underhill's book, THE WOODWRIGHT'S COMPANION, p16. "In pine timber slow growth and tight rings make tough, dense, strong wood, just as you might expect. In oaks, however, the effect is just the opposite. Slow growth in oak makes for weaker, more porous wood of a lower density. The reason for this is that every spring an oak has to put out a new set of leaves before the next tree or it's out of business. To get this mass of vegetation out, massive amounts of water must be run up through new plumbing that forms in the wood each spring. These large vessels form a band of constant width in every growth ring, followed by the denser, stronger wood formed during the summer growing season. The slower an oak tree grows, the closer together these bands of weaker spring wood will be. A slow grown red oak can become so porous that it appears to be 90 percent nothing." These are just things I, a 16 year old, knew enough to find fault with. It would be interesting to see what someone knowledgeable about the environment or the Native Americans would find is incorrect in Kaufman's book.
20 x Thoreau = Surprises
Beyond Thoreau |
85. ... The ecology of the Orthoptera and Dermaptera of the George reserve, Michigan (Miscellaneous publications.Museum of zoology, University of Michigan) by Irving J Cantrall | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1943)
Asin: B0007EA1JO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
86. The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2000-04-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's readers with his fascinating ruminations on the world around us. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six of Quammen's most thoughtful and engaging essays from that column, none previously printed in any of his earlier books. In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana; and halfway across Indonesia in search of the perfect Durian fruit. He ponders the history of nutmeg in the southern Moluccas, meditates on bioluminescent beetles while soaking in the waters of the Amazon, and delivers "The Dope on Eggs" from a chicken ranch near his hometown in Montana. Quammen's travels are always jumping-off points to explore the rich and sometimes horrifying tension between humankind and the natural world, in all its complexity and ambivalence. Rattlesnake hunting becomes an occasion to meditate on certain dark veins of human character that remain constant amid a world of change. An encounter with a spider in Guam becomes an occasion to examine innate fears and affinities. In these essays it becomes impossible to look outward without at the same time looking inward. The result is another irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold -- from the acclaimed author of Wild Thoughts from Wild Places and the award-winning The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. Customer Reviews (11)
Essays You Can See His "Song of the Dodo" (1996) was a tough slog due to the weight and mass of four long books rolled in one, but the 20-minute essays here are just the right length.
Good stuff!
Dave Quammen does it again!
RIDE A RHINO!
Wonderful nature writing |
87. Zoology.(Author abstract): An article from: Michigan Academician by David Clark | |
Digital: 11
Pages
(2009-12-22)
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88. Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries: Papers on Biology and Fisheries (Fao Fisheries Technical Paper) by R. S. Shomura, J. Majkowski, S. Langi | |
Paperback: 439
Pages
(1994-11)
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89. The Lazy Environmentalist: 365 Days of Great Tips for Easy, Stylish, Green Living 2008 Box Calendar by Josh Dorfman | |
Calendar: 366
Pages
(2007-08-01)
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Thought Provoking
Advertising, not environmentalism |
90. Guide to the Care of Urban Wildlife by Erna Walraven | |
Mass Market Paperback: 192
Pages
(1990-09-01)
Isbn: 0044422172 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
91. The Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2003-11-24)
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Disappointing
Excellent work that will stand the test of time
a not-too-cohesive assemblage of 9 essays on wildness
dream a bear's nostrils and wake up at home
An OUTSTANDING book |
92. Populations in a fluctuating environment: The comparative population ecology of the iguanid lizards, Sceloporus merriami and Urosaurus ornatus (Miscellaneous ... / Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan) by Arthur E Dunham | |
Unknown Binding: 62
Pages
(1981)
Asin: B0006E7I4G Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
93. Rock And Mineral Collecting In Canada - Volume Iii, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland by Ann P.; Geological Survey Of Canada, Department Of Energy, Mines And Resources Sabina | |
Paperback: 106
Pages
(1972)
Asin: B00116AXX6 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
94. Three Tales (World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert | |
Paperback: 142
Pages
(1991-04-25)
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Eh
Biblical References
Three Tales is a trio of short story gems by the peerless Gustave Flaubert
A wonderful collection of stories by Flaubert
ACQUIRINGPIETY |
95. Studies on the biology and ecology of Michigan Phalangida (Opiliones), (Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Miscellaneous publications) by Arlan L Edgar | |
Unknown Binding: 64
Pages
(1971)
Asin: B0006C5ZIO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
96. The Paradise of Bombs by Scott R. Sanders | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(1987-03)
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The personal essay form at its best
A Paradise for Lovers of the Written Word |
97. Framework for Management for Natural Disasters (Miscellaneous Report 43) by Vyas Sumeer | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1988-06)
list price: US$20.00 Isbn: 9992656891 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
98. Disaster Research Center and Its Activities (Miscellaneous Report 45) | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1991-06)
list price: US$3.00 Isbn: 9992657006 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
99. Disaster Recovery Comments on the Literature and a Mostly Annotated Bibliography (Miscellaneous Report No. 44) by E.L. Quanantelli | |
Paperback:
Pages
(1989-06)
list price: US$5.00 Isbn: 9992656964 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
100. World in Motion: The Globalization and the Environment Reader by Gary M. Kroll | |
Hardcover: 294
Pages
(2008-12-16)
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