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Author : Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780888501882
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Nature in North America written by Reader's Digest Association (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Nicholls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226583422
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Paradise Found written by Steve Nicholls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter’s dream, with populations of game too abundant and diverse to even fathom. It’s no wonder these first settlers thought they had discovered a paradise of sorts. Fortunately for us, they left a legacy of copious records documenting what they saw, and these observations make it possible to craft a far more detailed evocation of North America before its settlement than any other place on the planet. Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent’s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. Seamlessly blending firsthand accounts from centuries past with the findings of scientists today, Nicholls also introduces us to a myriad cast of characters who have chronicled the changing landscape, from pre–Revolutionary era settlers to researchers whom he has met in the field. A director and writer of Emmy Award–winning wildlife documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and PBS, Nicholls deploys a cinematic flair for capturing nature at its most mesmerizing throughout. But Paradise Found is much more than a celebration of what once was: it is also a reminder of how much we have lost along the way and an urgent call to action so future generations are more responsible stewards of the world around them. The result is popular science of the highest order: a book as remarkable as the landscape it recreates and as inspired as the men and women who discovered it.
Author : David Muench
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781570980244
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Nature's America written by David Muench and published by Roberts Rinehart Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an eye that sees the spirit of the land and a camera that captures the magic behind patterns of light and form, David Muench distills the essence of the American experience--the land. A master nature photographer, Muench assembles his best work--quintessential portraits of the American landscape that celebrate its enduring primal beauty. 133 color photos.
Author : Dot Barlowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486448118
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book America the Beautiful to Paint Or Color written by Dot Barlowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three handsomely rendered drawings celebrate the beauty and majesty of America From California's Big Sur country to Mount Desert island off the rock-bound coast of Maine, these beautiful drawings capture images of all things great and small. Included, among other landmark American scenes, are views of Everglades wildlife, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, Mt. McKinley, California redwoods, the Petrified Forest, Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park, and bobwhite quail in a Kansas wheatfield. Colorists of all ages will enjoy painting or coloring these landscapes, which feature: • Beautiful drawings, specially printed with light gray lines that virtually disappear with the addition of colors for a finished, professional look • High-quality paper, printed on one side only and suitable for watercolor, colored pencils, and other media • Perforated pages for easy removal from the book
Author : Catherine L. Albanese
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226011461
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Nature Religion in America written by Catherine L. Albanese and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-09-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout American history. Traces the connections between movements and individuals. Includes figures from popular culture such as the Hutchinson Family Singers and Davy Crockett as well as Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir.
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Future in America written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon T. Coleman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300227140
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Nature Shock written by Jon T. Coleman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning environmental historian explores American history through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of getting lost The human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book, environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses the trailblazers so often described in American history to follow instead the strays and drifters who went missing. From Hernando de Soto's failed quest for riches in the American southeast to the recent trend of getting lost as a therapeutic escape from modernity, this book details a unique history of location and movement as well as the confrontations that occur when our physical and mental conceptions of space become disjointed. Whether we get lost in the woods, the plains, or the digital grid, Coleman argues that getting lost allows us to see wilderness anew and connect with generations across five centuries to discover a surprising and edgy American identity.
Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James David Drake
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931223
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Nation's Nature written by James David Drake and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examines how a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America's east coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think of their nation as America. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientific debates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn, solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of the Constitution."--Publisher description.
Author : Jennifer Jaye Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flight Maps:adventures With Nature In Modern America written by Jennifer Jaye Price and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. "Flight Maps" should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee.
Author : Adrian Forsyth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439144745
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Tropical Nature written by Adrian Forsyth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307824438
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Geographical History of America written by Gertrude Stein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature.
Author : Gregg Mitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674715714
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Reel Nature written by Gregg Mitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and unarmed. Yet the camera's penetration of this world has inevitably brought human artifice and technology into the picture as well. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the twentieth century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife. Like the museum and the zoo, the nature film sought to recreate the experience of unspoiled nature while appealing to a popular audience, through a blend of scientific research and commercial promotion, education and entertainment, authenticity and artifice. Travelogue-expedition films, like Teddy Roosevelt's African safari, catered to upper- and middle-class patrons who were intrigued by the exotic and entertained by the thrill of big-game hunting and collecting. The proliferation of nature movies and television shows in the 1950s, such as Disney's True-Life Adventures and Marlin Perkins's Wild Kingdom, made nature familiar and accessible to America's baby-boom generation, fostering the environmental activism of the latter part of the twentieth century. Reel Nature reveals the shifting conventions of nature films and their enormous impact on our perceptions of, and politics about, the environment. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now reveal much about the yearnings of Americans to be both close to nature and yet distinctly apart.
Author : Shaul E. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520237706
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Planting Nature written by Shaul E. Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting Nature exposes a collaboration that cuts across environmental, governmental, and business interests, that subverts the power of people who think that they are building a better world by planting trees.
Author : Sophie Brockmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421237
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Science of Useful Nature in Central America written by Sophie Brockmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the role of local and global scientific knowledge about landscapes and environment in shaping Central America.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Nature in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Paul Crillon Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Flora of North America written by William Paul Crillon Barton and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
