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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Alaska Geographic Society
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alaska Geographic Society
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Publisher: Alaska Geographic Society
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 1996-12-01
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts more than 100 books to date, featuring communities from Barrow to Ketchikan, animals from bears to dinosaurs, history from the Russian explorers to today, and natural phenomena from the aurora to glaciers. Written by leading experts in their fields, these books are illustrated throughout with world-class photography and include colorful maps for reference.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $6.06
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Manufacturer: Mountain Trail Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Mountain Trail Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.5700222
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Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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Reading Level: 60
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Description: From the dramatic mountain vistas of the Blue Ridge Escarpment to the broad sandy beaches and remote barrier islands of the Atlantic coast, this photographic journey captures the beauty and diversity of South Carolina's natural landscapes.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $9.07
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Manufacturer: Westcliffe Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Publisher: Westcliffe Publishers
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Publication Date: 2008-06
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $3.96
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Manufacturer: Walker & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Chet Raymo
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Publisher: Walker & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 936.196
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Publication Date: 2004-05-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: An acclaimed science writer celebrates an enduring symbol of Ireland’s Celtic past, Christian tradition, and love of nature
Mount Brandon is one of several holy mountains in Ireland that attract scores of believers and secular trekkers from around the world. For thirty-two years, Chet Raymo has lived part of each year on the Dingle Peninsula, near the foot of the mountain, and he has climbed it perhaps a hundred times, exploring paths that have been used for centuries by pilgrims in search of spiritual enlightenment. But the history and geography of Mount Brandon are what drew Raymo to it and offered him a lens through which to view the modern conflicts between science and religion.
When Ireland converted from paganism, it became home to a kind of Christianity that was unique in Europe—intensely intellectual yet attuned to nature, skeptical yet celebratory, grounded in the here-and-now yet open to infinity. In this rich celebration of Mount Brandon, Raymo weaves together myth and science, folklore and natural history, spiritual and physical geographies. He takes us to a time on the wave-lashed edge of the Western world when Mediterranean Christianity ran up against Celtic nature worship and the Irish—with their fondness for ambiguity, double meanings, puns and riddles—forged a fusion of knowledge and faith that sustains us today.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $17.12
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Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. W. Tabor::Ralph Haugerud
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Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 557.975
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Publication Date: 1999-05
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Reading Level: 143
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Description: Comprehensive geologic summary of Washington's North Cascades.
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Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jack Turner
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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.78755
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Publication Date: 2000-06-08
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Skillfully blending history, memory, and observation, philosopher-cum-mountain guide Jack Turner's Teewinot is a year in the life of Wyoming's Teton Range, as told by a true believer. Certainly he captures a sense of the mountains--not only their jagged rock, hidden valleys, and beaten trails, but the flora, fauna, and folks who inhabit them. He navigates this territory with the poise and purpose of a skilled climber--feeling for holds, finding one, adjusting balance, reaching out again in a different direction, pausing on those features whose nuances fit best, but never lingering too long. His narrative meanders between peaks, seasons, communities, periods of history, and moments in time. While lacking much of the intensity in tone and the invitation to controversy of his previous work, The Abstract Wild, Teewinot is still underscored by a deep environmental consciousness and concern for the future of the wild. Turner notes, for instance, the numerous and varied ways Homo sapiens have scarred his beloved wilderness: the trash left behind by campers, the wildlife pushed out of their usual haunts, the rash of development in Jackson Hole. But he also manages to skirt the role played by guide companies like Exum (his employer), noting only that "Exum, of course, is a part of the problem--a small part." Maybe this is denial, a practice he labels "the first line of defense." Or perhaps he relies on the climber's "prizewinning talent for dissociating emotion" to shield him. Whatever, he is content to leave these questions unanswered. Many readers will also be content to leave them as such--a worthwhile trade for a glimpse into a climber's soul. --Rene Henery
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ann Zwinger
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Publisher: Johnson Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.788
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Publication Date: 2002-09
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Reading Level: 361
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Description: The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment. These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are "a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is a promise of spring, and in spring the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds, the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard … here part of each season is contained in every other." In beautiful and simple language and with 80 illustrations, "Beyond the Aspen Grove" tells of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world. "Ann Swinger’s "Beyond the Aspen Grove" takes us to the Montane Zone of Colorado (7,000 to 9,000 feet) to walk her land with her, to savor the immense variety of life to be found there, above and below ground, in its streams, meadows, under the surface of a lake and among its groves of aspen and Ponderosa pine. The book is a compendium of information, packed densely with meat like a rich nut … [a] work of love that is also a work of science and a work of art." —May Sarton in "The New York Times Book Review"
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $23.34
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Manufacturer: UPNE
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William Sargent
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Publisher: UPNE
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.7422
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Publication Date: 2001-06-01
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Reading Level: 211
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Description: In the same format and style of his prize-winning Shallow Waters, William Sargent's latest book chronicles a year spent exploring the North Woods of New Hampshire. Through words and photographs, the man about whom Publishers Weekly wrote, "With his fine descriptions and lucid explanations, Sargent joins the company of Lewis Thomas and Stephen Jay Gould as a first rate interpreter of modern science" investigates a new area's geology, ecology, and natural history. Centered primarily in the Franconia Notch, the book ranges to include Mount Washington Observatory, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Palermo Mine, and New Hampshire Audubon's Peregrine Tagging Program.
In a series of lyrical chapters, Sargent takes readers into vernal ponds and moose yards, up mountain summits and into the dens of hibernating bears. He shows that the present pattern of evergreen and deciduous trees we think of as natural is actually the result of centuries of human alteration. Describing how humans have become the newest geophysical force shaping our planet, he ruminates on how well the earth's immune system can withstand the onslaught. Offering up-to-date science on the geology and biology of New England, A Year in the Notch explains the interaction between life, rocks, and water -- the intricate dance that keeps our planet alive and makes our own existence possible.
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $9.93
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Manufacturer: Chartwell Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Victoria Coules
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Publisher: Chartwell Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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Reading Level: 254
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $25.59
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Manufacturer: Thistle Hill
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: A. Blake Gardner
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Publisher: Thistle Hill
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 2003-09-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: Vermont is generally thought of as quintessentially old New England: small villages with white clapboard houses and tall church spires; family farms with red barns and grazing cows; and verdant fields lined with maple and white birch trees.
But there's another Vermont - virtually unknown to many - that is composed of untamed wilderness with an extraordinary variety of landscape, soils, trees, and wildflowers, in a variety perhaps unmatched in any other small region. These wild areas are among the state's most beautiful and photogenic. Some are protected permanently, but many are not. Some are difficult to reach, even on foot; others are just a short stroll from a town or roadside.
A. Blake Gardner has been trekking to wild areas throughout Vermont for more than a decade, and he photographs them, carefully and lovingly, with his large-format camera. To supplement Gardner's exquisite portraits, Tom Wessels writes about how these wild areas came to be. He looks at the state's geology, its natural history, and its culture. And he scrutinizes the threats to that diversity and discusses its preservation and stewardship.
Untamed Vermont serves as a pictorial reminder of the natural and fragile beauty of the wild areas within the Green Mountains, and how vital to our well-being the preservation of that wildness is.
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Displaying records 81 through 90 of 341
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