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.Mitchell, John Hanson; Conuel, Thomas; Leahy, Christopher The Nature of Massachusetts
Perseus Books 1996 0201409690 / 9780201409697 Hardcover Fine near fine Hardcover
Book is in excellent condition; clean, tight and square with no wear or marks. Dust jacket clean and bright; very light edge wear and one crease to inside front flap. A beautiful and informative book - is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any nature-lover. "One of the world's greatest painters of nature and three leading natural history writers have collaborated to offer this spectacular introduction to the natural habitats of Massachusetts. From the barrier beaches, heathlands and salt marshes of the Atlantic Coast, to the teeming vernal pools, red maple swamps and grasslands of the interior, all the way to the forest and fens of the Berkshire highlands, the glories of these new England landscapes are lovingly celebrated. In honor of the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Centennial in 1996, the Society has chosen to celebrate these great ecological treasures through the paintings of Lars Jonsson, and through the words of Christopher Leahy, John Hanson Mitchell and Thomas Conuel."
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19.95 USD
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Carson, Rachel The Edge of the Sea
Houghton Mifflin New York 1955 Cloth Very Good Cloth
Sixth printing. NO dust jacket. Ex-lib. with stamps to fep and copyright page, call sticker to spine, and card pocket on back end page. Tight and clean with no marks to text. Beautiful black and white illustrations throughout by Robert W. Hines.
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5.95 USD
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Cokinos, Christopher Hope Is the Thing with Feathers; A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Grand Central Publishing New York 2001 0446677493 / 9780446677493 First - First edition Trade Paperback Very Good Trade Paperback
First Warner Books trade paperback printing. Book is solid and tight; no reading creases to spine. Light soiling to back cover and wear to edges; no marks to interior. "An award-winning nature writer weaves natural history and personal experience into the dramatic story of the last days of six North American bird species. With a compelling blend of science, history, politics, and memoir, Cokino draws on unpublished photographs and documents to make these long-vanished birds come alive."
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3.95 USD
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Eiseley, Loren The Immense Journey
Random House Inc New York 1957 0394701577 / 9780394701578 Mass Market Paperback Near Fine Mass Market Paperback
Slight edge wear, else as-new.
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2.95 USD
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Finch, David Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays
Counterpoint,U.S. 2001 1582431388 / 9781582431383 First Edition Trade Paperback Very Good Trade Paperback
Book is solid, tight and clean; no creasing to spine. Some folded edges at bottom corner, slight sticker remains on front cover, and crease to bottom front cover corner (not visable from exterior). "Spanning more than 20 years, these essays record changes not only in the natural environment of Cape Cod but in the writer's own life. Death of a Hornet is one man's elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. These stories are "natural adventures" that Finch's previous readers have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape's fragile environment, on living in one place for a long time, and on the limitations of human sympathy."
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4.95 USD
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Levin, Ted Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist
Chelsea Green Pub Co White River Jct, VT 1988 0930031156 / 9780930031152 Trade Paperback Very Good + Trade Paperback
Book is clean and tight; no creasing to spine, and no marks to interior. Light wear to edges and corners. Out of print. '"When I come upon an animal's tracks in the woods, I find myself moving back against the animal's direction to trace where it started from," Ted Levin writes in Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist. He also traces his own development as a naturalist from his boyhood roots on suburban Long Island to his present life in northern New England. Along the way he introduces us to all sorts of wild creatures-from red-backed salamanders, cicadas, and rattlesnakes to manatees, coyotes, and bald eagles. Backtracking is full of fascinating facts and unusual observations. Levin reveals how accessible the natural world can be; we need look no farther than our own backyards to find it.'
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5.95 USD
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Murray, John A. American Nature Writing 1994
Sierra Club Books San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 1994 0871564793 / 9780871564795 Trade Paperback Very Good - Trade Paperback
First printing. Book is solid and tight. Wear and scuffing to covers and edges, but no creasing or breaks to spine. No marks to text.
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5.95 USD
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Nugent, Rory The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck ; A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra
Houghton Mifflin Company 1991 0395669944 / 9780395669945 Paperback Very Good Paperback
2nd printing. Solid and tight copy with no creasing to spine. Inscription on first title page and some light wear and end splaying to covers. Small remainder mark (red dot) to bottom of text. "Over 50 years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Nugent set off for India in search of this rarest of birds. In the tradition of the best travel narratives, he recounts his experiences in such places as Calcutta, Sikkim's Valley of Bliss, Darjeeling, and the Indian wilderness."
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4.95 USD
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Pinker, Steven (Ed.) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (The Best American Series)
Houghton Mifflin New York 2004 0618246983 / 9780618246984 Trade Paperback Very Good + Trade Paperback
Book is solid and clean; no creases to spine; no marks to interior pages. Bottom outer corners bumped; light creasing to bottom of back cover. "Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker, is another provocative and thoroughly enjoyable [collection] from start to finish (Publishers Weekly). Here is the best and newest on science and nature: the psychology of suicide terrorism, desperate measures in surgery, the weird world of octopuses, Sex Week at Yale, the linguistics of click languages, the worst news about cloning, and much more."
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3.95 USD
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Quammen, David Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Simon & Schuster New York 1999 068485208X / 9780684852089 Trade Paperback Near Fine Trade Paperback
Remainder mark on bottom of text (black line), else as-new. 304 pp.
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7.95 USD
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Rezendes, Paul The Wild Within
Berkley Trade 1998 0425171574 / 9780425171578 First - First edition Trade Paperback Fine Trade Paperback
Forward by Bill McKibben. Book is clean and tight - no reading creases to spine; excellent condition. "Paul Rezendes has followed bobcats through swamps, wrestled a black bear, howled with coyotes at the edge of a moonlit field. Here, he tells the story of his extraordinary progression from motorcycle-gang leader to Zen woodsman, learning about compassion from a curious 750-pound bull moose and discovering the inseparability of life and death through a wrenching encounter between a coyote and a deer. With this book, he shows us how to live in the natural world--even if it's only within a local park or tree-lined street--moving soundlessly, watching where we put our feet, gauging the wind, and entering a new state of awareness. Dramatic and deeply spiritual, The Wild Within changes the way we see ourselves--and makes the world around us come alive."
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6.95 USD
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