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ABC's of Nature
by Reader's Digest Staff

ISBN 0895771691 (0-89577-169-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest

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Answers questions about the physical world, its plants and animals, and the adaptations and interactions of plants and animals in various environments such as deserts, mountains, and seashores. [via]
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All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot

ISBN 0312330855 (0-312-33085-5)
Softcover, Griffin

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"This book shines with humor, pathos, superb tale-telling and a rarity above all these, what seems a richly justified love of life. whether on his back in a much-filled stable with his arm inside a cow, trying to turn a calf into the proper position to be born, or calming a wealty dowager with an overfed Peckingses, or comforting a lonely old man companion -a dog -has died, James Herriot needed all the bedside manner, stamina, skill, and gift of humanity of the best of family doctors. [via]
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All Things Wise And Wonderful
by James Herriot

ISBN 0816165254 (0-8161-6525-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co

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Art Forms in Nature
by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

ISBN 0486229874 (0-486-22987-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges, leptomedusae, horny corals, trunkfishes, true sea slugs, anthomedusae horseshoe crabs, sea-cucumbers, octopuses, bats, orchids, sea wasps, seahorse, a dragonfish, a frogfish, much more. All images in black and white.
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Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country
by Hal Borland, Peter Parnall, Les Line

ISBN 1592280420 (1-59228-042-0)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr

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"This is primarily a book about the outdoors, the natural world," writes Hal Borland. "It is primarily about the countryside, not the wilderness; countrysides are common and within reach of almost everyone." In fact, Borland's countrysides are still just beyond your own doorstep, where meadow, woods, riverbank and roadside wait, each of them filled with everyday wonders. And although the author acknowledges that many of his readers will only follow his eloquent lead vicariously, his book is an invitation to "getting up and out," exploring nature in person and discovering the interdependence of animals and plants. Originally published in 1962, Beyond Your Doorstep is now more timely than ever as a source of inspiration for anyone with a desire to know more about the living things we so often look at but never actually see or understand.
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Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays
by Candace Savage

ISBN 0871569566 (0-87156-956-6)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books

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Argues that the birds' powers of abstraction, memory, and creativity are equal to those of many mammals. [via]
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN 039330857X (0-393-30857-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Stephen Jay Gould has a wide range of interests, and for many years he has shared his enthusiasms in the pages of Natural History and the New York Review of Books, among other journals. His passions include baseball, the puzzles of evolutionary theory, and the game of scholarly detection as it applies to questions such as, "What became of dinosaurs, anyway?". He answers entertainingly, but never talks down to his readers. Gould is one of modern natural science's great popularizers, but he shuns the temptation to make the giant reptiles of prehistory the Smurfs of the 1990s, in the manner of a certain purple dinosaur. The 35 pieces gathered here make for fine browsing, full of sideways glances and digressions that eventually make sense. [via]
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Burgess Bird Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess

ISBN 0486428400 (0-486-42840-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Renowned naturalist and author of children's books on wildlife successfully blends information and entertainment in his book about birds, among them saucy Jenny Wren, Redwing the Blackbird, Melody the Wood Thrush, Spooky the Screech Owl, Creaker the Purple Grackle, Downy the Woodpecker, and other feathered friends. 32 black-and-white illustrations.
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London

ISBN 0140366695 (0-14-036669-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog, who, caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Note. [via]
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The Call Of The Wild Adventure Classic
by Jack London

ISBN 0060728035 (0-06-072803-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Call of the Wild and Selected Stories
by Jack London

ISBN 0451513835 (0-451-51383-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Buck, the dog hero, is sold into service in the Klondike. Abused by men and dogs, clubs and fangs, he becomes a ruthless fighter. A master that he deeply loves and respects saves him. But the actions of both humans and canines alike eventually force him to follow an instinct that he cannot resist. (Three CDs) [via]
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
by Jack London, Andrew Sinclair

ISBN 0140186514 (0-14-018651-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Jack Londons two greatest novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fangoriginally intended as companionsare here compiled in one volume. The Call of the Wild centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.

White Fang tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save himhuman love.

Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.

Tina Gianquitto holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.
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Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0140170022 (0-14-017002-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The great naturalist recounts his experiences during a series of beach-combing walking trips around Cape Cod in the early 1850s. His compelling account of the region's plants, animals, topography, weather, and people features captivating tales of exploration, settlement, and survival. [via]
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Confessions of a Barbarian
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 0809541068 (0-8095-4106-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr

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Confessions of a Barbarian: Red Knife Valley
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 088496244X (0-88496-244-X)
Softcover, Capra Pr

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Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey
by David Petersen, Edward Abbey

ISBN 1555662870 (1-55566-287-0)
Softcover, Big Earth Pub

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Down The River
by Edward Abbey

ISBN 0844672025 (0-8446-7202-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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Earth Speaks
by Steve Van Matre

ISBN 0917011007 (0-917011-00-7)
Softcover, Inst for Earth Education

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A Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America
by Gordon Morrison, John C. Kricher, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute

ISBN 0395928958 (0-395-92895-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Field Guide to Ecology of Eastern Forests: North America
by Gordon Morrison, John C. Kricher, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute

ISBN 0395479533 (0-395-47953-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Contained in one easy-to-use, pocket-sized book is information on birds, trees, wildflowers, mushrooms, mammals, insects, reptiles and amphibians, and more. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. [via]
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A Field Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America
by Joseph T. Collins, Roger Conant

ISBN 0395904528 (0-395-90452-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America
by Roger Conant

ISBN 0395199778 (0-395-19977-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The third edition of this classic, definitive guide to the reptiles and amphibians of eastern and central Noth America features new color plates, an updated text, and painstakingly researched maps. With increasing focus on endangered species as indicators of environmental problems, this guide will be an essential reference for anyone concerned about the state of the natural world. 48 full-color plates, 333 maps. [via]
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Henry David Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0940450275 (0-940450-27-5)
Hardcover, Library of America

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Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden," one of America's great books, is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. [via]
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The Immense Journey
by Loren C. Eiseley

ISBN 0394701577 (0-394-70157-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Jack London's Call of the Wild
by Jack London, Alex Nino, Neil Kleid

ISBN 014240571X (0-14-240571-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, Buck is a sturdy crossbreed canine accustomed to a comfortable life as a family dog -- until he's seized from his pampered surroundings and shipped to Alaska to be a sled dog. There, the forbidding landscape is as harsh as life itself during the gold rush of the 1890s. Forced to function in a climate where every day is a savage struggle for survival, Buck adapts quickly. Traces of his earlier existence are obliterated and he reverts to his dormant primeval instincts, encountering danger and adventure as he becomes the leader of a wolf pack and undertakes a journey of nearly mythical proportions. Superb details, taken from Jack London's firsthand knowledge of Alaskan frontier life, make this classic tale of endurance as gripping today as it was over a century ago. One of literature's most popular and exciting adventure stories, The Call of the Wild will enrich the reading experience of youngsters, and rekindle fond memories of a favorite among older generations.

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Kids Nature Book
by Susan Milord

ISBN 1885593074 (1-885593-07-4)
Softcover, Ideals Pubns

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Provides nature activities for every day of the year, including making a snow gauge, hatching amphibian eggs, planting a butterfly garden, and creating a cloud in the kitchen, [via]
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Menagerie Manor
by Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Ralph Thompson

ISBN 0143038532 (0-14-303853-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Mountains of California
by John Muir, Bill McKibben

ISBN 0375758194 (0-375-75819-4)
Softcover, Modern Library

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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The Mountains of California
by Edward Hoagland, John Muir

ISBN 0140170200 (0-14-017020-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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My First Summer in the Sierra
by John Muir, Herbert W. Gleason, Mike Davis

ISBN 0812968654 (0-8129-6865-4)
Softcover, Modern Library

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John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly critters toward the headwaters of the Merced River.
The diary he kept while tending sheep forms the heart of My First Summer in the Sierra; published in 1911, it enticed thousands of Americans to visit the Yosemite country. The book is full of the concerns Muir would later voice as America's foremost preservationist and wildlands advocate, which would bear fruit in the creation of several national parks and monuments. And it resounds with Muir's nearly pantheistic regard for the natural world: with celebrations of the Sierra's lizards that "dart about on the hot rocks, swift as dragonflies," its mountain lions and tall trees and fierce thunderstorms and bears; with Muir's overarching awe for places that civilization had yet to tame. Though perhaps a little purple by modern standards, Muir's book continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own--and as such it stands among the enduring classics of environmental literature. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Naturalist
by Edward O. Wilson, Alastair Graham, Brian Taylor, David Gross, Margaret De Haas

ISBN 0446671991 (0-446-67199-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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E. O. Wilson, among the most prominent biologists working today, has made signal contributions to the field both large and small. As an entomologist, and especially as a student of several kinds of ants, he is famed among a small audience. He is better known for his work in the controversial subdiscipline of sociobiology for his formulations of island-biogeographic theory, and for his catastrophic view of modern extinctions. His lucid memoir, Naturalist, treats all these matters and more, and it celebrates the sea change in our view of nature--namely, that we now see that "we are bound to the rest of life in our ecology, our physiology, and even our spirit"--that has come about in no small measure because of Wilson's distinguished career. [via]
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan

ISBN 1594200823 (1-59420-082-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn'twhich mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.

Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a mealat McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.

We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?

A few facts and figures from The Omnivore's Dilemma:

Of the 38 ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, there are at least 13 that are derived from corn. 45 different menu items at Mcdonalds are made from corn.

One in every three American children eats fast food every day.

One in every five American meals today is eaten in the car.

The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United Statesmore than we burn with our cars and more than any other industry consumes.

It takes ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate.

A single strawberry contains about five calories. To get that strawberry from a field in California to a plate on the east coast requires 435 calories of energy.

Industrial fertilizer and industrial pesticides both owe their existence to the conversion of the World War II munitions industry to civilian usesnerve gases became pesticides, and ammonium nitrate explosives became nitrogen fertilizers.

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Pond Life
by George K. Reid, Tom Dolan, Sally D. Kaicher

ISBN 0307240177 (0-307-24017-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Readers Digest North American Wildlife
by Reader's Digest Editors

ISBN 0895771020 (0-89577-102-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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Detailed, specially drawn full-color illustrations of 230 species of mammals, 300 reptiles, and 200 amphibians in natural, realistic settings. At-a-glance identification capsules pinpoint behavior patterns, field characteristics, coloring, habitat, and more. [via]
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Reptiles and Amphibians
by Herbert S. Zim, Hobart M. Smith, Hobart Smith, James Gordon Irving

ISBN 0307240576 (0-307-24057-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Describes 212 species of turtles, snakes, frogs, salamanders and their relatives. [via]
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by Michael Pollan

ISBN 0802140114 (0-8021-4011-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere. "As delicious a meditation on one man's relationships with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon" (The New York Times Book Review), Second Nature captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck, to an essay about the sexual politics of roses, Pollan has created a passionate and eloquent argument for reconceiving our relationship with nature. [via]
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Selected Works of Jack London
by Jack London

ISBN 0517053594 (0-517-05359-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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40 short stories the call of the wild,white fang,the son of the wolf, the god of his father and many more. [via]
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

ISBN 0375432000 (0-375-43200-0)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print

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One of the worlds most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the worlds most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining. [via]
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Smithsonian Institution Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
by David Burnie, Don E. Wilson

ISBN 0789477645 (0-7894-7764-5)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated

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Over 2,000 species, from the tiny spider mite to the massive blue whale, are profiled in DK's astonishingly wonderful Animal, produced in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution and more than 70 expert zoologists. To call this book "profusely illustrated" is to seriously underrepresent page after page of breathtaking photos capturing each creature in sharp images, thrumming with life. Even the page borders are covered with collages of animal skins to indicate which class of organisms is represented in that section--every inch of this heavy book is gorgeous.
Besides heft and beauty, Animal has authority. Editors-in-chief David Burnie and Don E. Wilson are top biologists, and they have assembled a crack team of consultants for each section of the book. For instance, Richard Rosenblatt of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography takes charge of the chapter on fishes, so all the classification, behavior, and distribution data is up-to-date and full of the kind of detail that comes from years of professional specialization. In addition to basic size, location, and status information, each animal gets a short, one- to two-paragraph description, enough to give a feel for the creature:

The blackfin icefish produces a natural "antifreeze," enabling it to survive in the subzero waters of the Antarctic. It lacks red blood cells and hence looks rather pale, but has excellent blood circulation, and a strong heart which weighs as much as that of a small mammal. Its large, toothy mouth led to it being called the crocodile fish by 19th-century whalers.
Biodiversity has never been more at the forefront of biologists' concerns, and Animal reports on the issues critical to ecology, from habitat loss to the species that are most endangered within each class.
This book is an ideal browsing reference for all experience levels, as well as a delightful addition to the collection of any animal enthusiast or classroom. Of necessity, not all species are covered, but as a general source of information down to the genus level, Animal excels. Don't be put off by the price! Extraordinarily beautiful, biologically accurate, and packed with furry, feathery, finny, many-legged delights, Animal is one of the very best science books of 2001. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich

ISBN 0140081135 (0-14-008113-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still." Whether she's reflecting on nature's teachings, divulging her experiences as a cowpuncher, or painting vivid word portraits of the people she lives and works with, Gretel Ehrlich's observations are lyrical and funny, wise and authentic. After moving from the city to a vast new state, she writes of adjusting to cowboy life, boundless open spaces, and the almost incomprehensible harshness of a Wyoming winter:
"When it's fifty below, the mercury bottoms out and jiggles there as if laughing at those of us still above ground. Once I caught myself on tiptoes, peering down into the thermometer as if there were an extension inside inscribed with higher and higher declarations of physical misery: ninety below to the power of ten and so on."
After experiencing the isolated life of a sheep herder, she writes, "Keenly observed the world is transformed. The landscape is engorged with detail, every movement on it chillingly sharp. The air between people is charged. Days unfold, bathed in their own music. Nights become hallucinatory; dreams, prescient."
Ehrlich's gift is one of subtle precision. She writes beauty into the plainest of thoughts and meaning into the simplest of ideas: "True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere." --Kathryn True [via]
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Two in the Bush
by Gerald Durrell, Barry Driscoll

ISBN 0140044574 (0-14-004457-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books

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Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel L. Carson

ISBN 0452269180 (0-452-26918-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Under the Sea Wind is a classic wilderness adventure to which all nature writing is compared.

The special mystery and beauty of the sea is the setting for Rachel Carson's memorable portrait of the sea birds and sea creatures that inhabit the eastern coasts of North America. In a sequence of riveting adventures along the shore, within the open sea, and down in the twilight depths, Rachel Carson introduces us to the winds and currents of the ocean as revealed in the lives of Scomber the mackerel and Anguilla the eel. Life for them is a continuous miracle, a series of life-and-death victories played out among strange and often terrifying life forms far below the surface of the sea. The hero of Under the Sea Wind is soon seen to be life itself, that quicksilver prize granted, for a brief time only, to the clever and the fortunate. [via]
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Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Louise Carson

ISBN 0140253807 (0-14-025380-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Weeds
by Alexander C. Martin, Jean Zallinger

ISBN 1582381607 (1-58238-160-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Wetlands of North America
by William A. Niering, Bates Littlehales

ISBN 0934738939 (0-934738-93-9)
Softcover, Lickle Pub Inc

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White Fang and Call of the Wild
by Jack London

ISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest. [via]
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Wild Animals I Have Known
by Ernest Thompson Seton

ISBN 1847024629 (1-84702-462-9)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings: Being the Personal Histories of Lobo, Silverspot, Raggylug, Bingo, and Springfield Fox, the Pacing Mustang, Wully, and Redruff
by Ernest Thompson Seton

ISBN 0879050330 (0-87905-033-0)
Hardcover, Peregrine Smith

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Wilderness and the American Mind
by Roderick Nash

ISBN 0300091222 (0-300-09122-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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Woodswoman
by Anne Labastille

ISBN 0140153349 (0-14-015334-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Great book. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. [via]
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Zoo in My Luggage
by Gerald Durrell, Ralph Thompson

ISBN 0140020845 (0-14-002084-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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Dom Oba II D'Africa, O Principe Do Povo: Vida, Tempo E Pensamento De Um Homem Livre De Cor
by Eduardo da Silva

ISBN 8571647232 (85-7164-723-2)
Hardcover, Companhia das Letras

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