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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $26.36
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Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nancy Ross Hugo
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.1609755
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Publication Date: 2008-08-21
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: This stunning collaboration between the noted garden writer Nancy Ross Hugo and the photographer Robert Llewellyn showcases the fruits of an effort begun in 2004 to research, locate, and photograph Virginia's most remarkable trees. Four years later, more than one thousand trees had been officially nominated to the project and many others suggested for possible inclusion. The results, presented in this elegant, four-color volume, are astounding. Hugo and Kirwan, the project coordinators, have selected a sample of trees and "tree places" that illustrate the enormous variety, startling beauty, and fascinating history of Virginia's trees. Here you will see, through Llewellyn's incomparable lens, not only some of Virginia's largest trees, including a newly discovered national champion overcup oak in Isle of Wight County, but also some of the state's oldest, including baldcypress trees over 800 years old in Southampton County and red cedars over 450 years old in Giles. You will find unique trees like a willow oak in which a tricycle is embedded, fine specimens like the massive American beech in front of Sleepy Hollow Methodist Church in Falls Church, and outrageously shaped trees, like the water tupelos in the Cypress Bridge area of Southampton County. You will find trees associated with famous people and events as well as trees associated with ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Perhaps best of all, you will learn about communities that have gone to great lengths to protect their trees and about places where the public can visit some of the best trees and "treescapes" in the state. Remarkable Trees of Virginia is a celebration of trees, but it doesn't dodge hard issues. In a section on urban forests, the authors describe the major problems facing trees in urban areas and point out strategies urban foresters are using to solve them. They describe the ecological services trees provide and issue a call for action both to protect trees in their existing habitats and to find more places where trees can "grow large and long." Hugo, Kirwan, and Llewellyn present a treasury of Virginia's trees that is, indeed, remarkable.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Preston
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 585.5
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Publication Date: 2008-02-12
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored.
The canopy voyagers are young–just college students when they start their quest–and they share a passion for these trees, persevering in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings. They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there’s nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air.
The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death.
Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees–the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $3.95
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Sale: $2.82
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Manufacturer: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: May T. Watts
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Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.160973
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Publication Date: 1963-11
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Reading Level: 62
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Description: Guide to identifying native (and some widely introduced) trees of U.S. and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Organized as a dichotomous key, the book leads the user through a series of simple questions about the shape or appearance of different parts of a tree. Includes 161 species. Illustrated with line drawings. The small (6" by 4") format fits in pocket or pack to take along on a hike.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.12
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Imitation Leather
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Author: NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: Chanticleer Press Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16097
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Publication Date: 1980-05-12
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Reading Level: 716
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Description: For the untrained observer, it can be quite a challenge to sort out the many trees that make up a stand of older forest in, say, New England or the Ozarks. This well-illustrated guidebook, covering 364 species, comes to the rescue with photographs organized in several ways: by, for example, the shape of the leaf or needle, by the fruit, by the flower or cone, and by autumn coloration. Following one visible characteristic or another, the reader can narrow the range of possibilities, then turn to an informative text that describes a tree's physical characteristics, habitat, and range. Many of the species covered are relatively rare, such as the "stinking cedar" of the Georgia-Florida border; others are locally abundant, such as the paper birch of the boreal forest, used to make ice-cream sticks; still others, such as the smooth sumac, are widespread. The guidebook also covers ornamentals introduced from other continents, such as the Chinese privet and Mahaleb cherry. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.87
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Manufacturer: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Frank Brockman
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Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.160973
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Publication Date: 2001-04-14
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar Maple, whose foliage blazes red and yellow in autumn. North America's trees rank among nature's most awesome creations. This premier field guide features all characteristics-tree shape, bark, leaf, flower, fruit and twig-for quick identification, making it a superior choice for trail walks, creating displays, and scientific or commercial needs.-All of North America in one volume-Over 730 species in 76 families and 160 range maps-Native species and important introduced foreign varieties-Text, range maps, and illustrations seen together at a glance-Common and scientific names-Convenient measuring rules
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George A. Petrides
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.160974
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Publication Date: 1998-07-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: This field guide features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and the South. The 48 color plates, 11 black-and-white plates, and 26 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 266 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.65
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Manufacturer: Collins
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Spike Carlsen
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Publisher: Collins
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Dewey Decimal Number: 620.12
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Publication Date: 2008-09-01
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: In a world without wood, we might not be here at all. Without wood, we wouldn't have had the fire, heat, and shelter that allowed us to expand into the colder regions of the planet. If civilization somehow did develop, our daily lives still would be vastly different: there would be no violins, baseball bats, chopsticks, or wine corks. The book you are now holding wouldn't exist. At the same time, many of us are removed from the world where wood is shaped and celebrated every day. That world is inhabited by a unique assortment of eccentric craftsmen and passionate enthusiasts who have created some of the world's most beloved musical instruments, feared weapons, dazzling architecture, sacred relics, and bizarre forms of transportation. In A Splintered History of Wood, Spike Carlsen has uncovered the most outlandish characters and examples, from world-champion chainsaw carvers to blind woodworkers, the Miraculous Staircase to the Lindbergh kidnapping case, and many more, in a passionate and personal exploration of nature's greatest gift.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.68
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Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael D. Williams
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Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.160974
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Publication Date: 2007-04
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Reading Level: 406
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Description: Identify trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf. This field-tested guide features colour photos showing bark; branching patterns; fruits, flowers, or nuts; and overall appearance; as well as leaf colour and shape - all chosen specifically to illustrate trees in spring, summer, winter, and fall. Accompanying text describes common locations and identifying characteristics. Created for in-the-field or at-home use, this guide includes an easy-to-use key that will help you put a name to any tree by flipping only a few pages. This title covers every common tree in North America.
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Price: $3.95
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Sale: $2.36
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Manufacturer: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: May T. Watts::Tom Watts
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Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634
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Publication Date: 1970-06
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Reading Level: 64
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $3.95
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Norman Maclean
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 634.96180978664
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Publication Date: 1993-11-15
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Reading Level: 316
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Description: On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge--the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery of paratrooper-firefighters, many of them fresh veterans of World War II, had been anticipating it, and even looking forward to the chance to fight a great fire. Before the day ended thirteen of those smokejumpers lay dead, their charred remains evidence that something had gone terribly wrong. Norman Maclean gives a thorough account of the incident in language not meant for the squeamish: "Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times ... first, considerably ahead of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of strange gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes." After August 1949, he notes, the Forest Service came to recognize that not all fires need to be fought and that fire benefits most forest ecosystems.
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