Birds of Paradise
Revealing the World's Most Extraordinary Birds
Written by Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes
Format: Hardcover, 228 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $50.00
"You’ll initially find it hard to believe that these pictures are real—but they are. These are the most beautiful photographs of the world’s most beautiful birds. The birds’ behavior, richly described in the text, is as remarkable as their appearance. This is a book like no other book."
--Jared Diamond, ornithologist and...
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Saving the White Lions
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: Trade Paperback, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $19.95
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve...
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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to Florida
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $19.95
Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida belongs in the home of every Florida resident and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians...
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Why I Wake Early
New Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2005
Price: $15.00
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world...
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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $11.99
The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaIn 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fishes
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2002
Price: $21.95
Covering both freshwater and saltwater species, this fully revised edition brings a new level of accuracy and usefulness to the original fishes field guide published over 20 years ago.
Over 700 new full-color photographs, 286 black-and-white illustrations, and 637 maps combine to make this book the most comprehensive field guide available to...
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
Written by David Allen Sibley
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $39.95
David Allen Sibley, the preeminent bird-guide author and illustrator, now applies his formidable skills of identification and illustration to the trees of North America.
Monumental in scope but small enough to take into the field,
The Sibley Guide to Trees is an astonishingly elegant guide to a complex subject. It condenses a...
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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Southeastern States
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Written by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1999
Price: $19.95
Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, the
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States belongs in the home of every resident of the Southeast and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains:
An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms...
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