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The Control of Nature
• John McPhee
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A bestseller in the classic McPhee tradition, this book explores our generally feeble attempts to combat all-powerful nature, including efforts by Icelanders to control the flow of a volcano.
(NAT01, $16.00)
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Cry of the Kalahari, Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness
• Mark Owens
• Delia Owens
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The story of a family thrown out of Botswana for their stance on conservation. While their approach to conservation is controversial, there's no doubt that the Owens are dedicated to the wildlife of southern Africa -- and are very good writers.
(SAF13, $16.00)
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The Crystal Desert
• David Campbell
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A splendid, prize-winning portrait of Antarctica. Campbell's vivid essays on fossils, glaciers, history and wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula are an excellent introduction to the area.
(ANT01, $14.95)
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Eye of the Albatross, Visions of Hope and Survival
• Carl Safina
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A passionate tribute and clarion call for the albatross.
(BRD14, $17.00)
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The Fragile Edge, Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific
• Julia Whitty
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Whitty's memoir of adventures underwater and travel in Rangiroa, Tuvalu and Moorea weaves impressions and philosophy with an account of coral reef ecology and Polynesian peoples.
(PAC173, $14.95)
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Gathering the Desert
• Gary Paul Nabhan
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A well-written account of desert cultures and botany in the American Southwest.
(USW120, $19.95)
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Into Africa, With a New Postcript
• Craig Packer
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An account by a noted field biologist of two months among the animals at Serengeti and Gombe National Parks in Tanzania.
(EAF77, $24.00)
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The Island Within
• Richard Nelson
• EXPLORATION
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A beautifully written tribute to the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from the author's journals, this is an account of the natural and cultural history of an island in the waters of Haida Strait, with emphasis on the relationship between people and the land.
(ALA17, $15.00)
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The Klamath Knot
• David Rains Wallace
• NATURAL HISTORY
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The 20th-anniversary edition of Wallace's celebrated meditation on the natural history, myth and meaning of the Klamath mountains of northern California and southern Oregon.
(CAL251, $17.95)
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Of Wolves and Men
• Barry Lopez
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This eloquent, powerful book is an outstanding overview of the wolf, as well as a survey of wolf mythology and its relationship to human society. First published in the 1980s, it has been reprinted with a new afterword by the author.
(BST31, $18.00)
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
• Aldo Leopold
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Leopold memorably opens this much-loved, essential collection of essays on land and nature and his farm in Wisconsin, first published in 1948, with the statement: "there are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot." The book has lost none of its power or beauty over the years. The book is also available in a commemorative hard cover gift edition (NAT111, $40.00) with 85 color photographs.
(NAT02, $15.95)
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The Sea Around Us
• Rachel Carson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An illustrated commemorative edition of Carson's hugely popular, influential paean to the sea, featuring 130 luminous color photographs. Also available is a new edition of Carson's first book of essays, Under the Sea-Wind (OCE109, $15.00), published on the centennial of her birth.
(OCE05, $49.95)
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The Singing Life of Birds, The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong
• Donald E. Kroodsma
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An account of a life in the field organized around an illuminating, personal analysis of the songs of 30 North American birds (with accompanying CD). With line drawings, tables, charts and sound spectrograms.
(BRD22, $16.95)
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The Song of the Dodo
• David Quammen
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Clearly written and engaging, Quammen's adventures on the trail of natural wonders in Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Galapagos and Komodo explains complex evolutionary phenomena with humor, wit and understanding.
(CON05, $22.00)
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Water, Ice and Stone, Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
• Bill Green
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This lyrical memoir of life and work in Antarctica is an excellent introduction to the 1,000-square-mile McMurdo Dry Valleys and modern research.
(ANT42, $15.95)
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