Result of: subject:"Natural History"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS HENRY D. THOREAU, from the ambrotype taken by Dunshee of New Bedford, August 19, 1861. Frontispiece. THE HOUSE AT WALDEN, ...

Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts

A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings

As he inches his way along, a little caterpillar meets the other creatures that are busy in the tall grass.

Presents a selection of writings by the nineteenth-century social philosopher and reformer, including Walden, his masterful celebration of the simple life and ...

Approaches the prevalent issues in ecology from an aesthetic viewpoint, stressing the beauty and balance of nature.

A stirring narrative of a real-life adventure chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin to explore and ...

Descriptions of many objects familiar to children emphasizing the most important characteristics of each object

ECONOMY W hen I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, ...

This is Charles Darwin's chronicle of his five-year journey, beginning in 1831, around the world as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle.

THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. CHAPTER I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. IF we look at a globe or a map of the Eastern hemisphere, we shall perceive between Asia and Australia ...

" Today it is widely considered one of the most important essays concerning the incumbent duties of American citizens.

Freckles, a plucky orphan who has lost one hand, finds work with the kindly owner of a vast lumber camp and discovers the plot of a former employee to cut and ...

My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras.

LETTER I. THE parish of Selbome lies in the extreme eastern comer of the county of Hampshire, bordering on the county of Sussex, and not far from the county ...

A Thousand- Mile Walk to the Gulf CHAPTER I KENTUCKY FORESTS AND CAVES 1HAD long been looking from the wild woods and gardens of the Northern States to ...

Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest.

LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN CHAPTER I. THE PUBLICATION OF THE ' ORIGIN OF SPECIES." OCTOBER 3,, to DECEMBER 31,.. [UNDER the date of October,, ...

Approaches the prevalent issues in ecology from an aesthitic viewpoint, stressing the beauty and balance of nature

The author records his observations of nature during the year he spent in a Cape Cod beach house.