Develop self-sufficiency skills and explore nature with the activities in this book. Topics covered include: tracking skills; wildlife spotting; foraging for wild food and cooking outdoors; how to light a fire safely (with adult...
Natural history
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Author:Manning, MickSummary: -
Author:Schutz, FredSummary: - Author:Thoreau, Henry DavidSummary:
Walden is a classic of American philosophy that describes Thoreau's concepts of self-reliance and individualism. In "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," he develops the philosophy of nonviolent political protest.
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Author:Brett, BrianSummary:An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of...
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Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary:During the five-year voyage of the Beagle, the young naturalist Charles Darwin collected some of the scientific evidence that led to his ideas on evolution and natural selection. Ever resourceful, he made observations on the open sea,...
- Author:McClintock, Frances Leopold, Sir, Grant, Shelagh D.Summary:
In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his crew of 129 men never returned. Over the following decade, forty expeditions were launched in an effort to establish the fate...
- Author:Carle, EricSummary:
A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.
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Author:Millard, CandiceSummary:After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and...
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Author:Butala, SharonSummary: - Author:Macfarlane, RobertSummary:
Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross the British landscape and its territories beyond. The result is an enthralling exploration of walking as both an...
- Author:Muir, JohnSummary:
Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and...
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Author:Guitard, NicholasSummary:For more than 50 years, William Francis Ganong explored the wilderness of New Brunswick to document its natural history. The importance of his work is well understood by academics studying natural history or cartography, but for the...
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Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction. Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wilderness of New Brunswick, systematically mapping previously uncharted territories,...
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Author:Williams, Terry TempestSummary:For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the...
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- Author:VAN DYKE, John CharlesSummary:
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding...
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Author:Kitts, WendySummary:Though it was discovered almost 500 years ago, few people have visited Sable Island. Despite modern naviational tools, excessive fog and stormy weather still make travelling to Sable a challenge. Add government restrictions limiting...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award. Warm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defining moments in the life of novelist and essayist Theresa Kishkan. For Kishkan, trees...
- Author:Horwood, DennisSummary:
Haida Gwaii, ancestral home of the Haida First Nation, was once as inaccessible and mysterious as it was beautiful. The tight cluster of islands off British Columbia’s northwest coast remained virtually untouchable for millennia,...
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Author:Cannings, Richard, Cannings, Sydney, Nelson, JoAnneSummary:
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