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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her ...

An engaging exploration of history, science, and religion provides a thought-provoking account of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory, examining how his ...

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

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 ...

Inspiring the award-winning film, Fossey's 13 years experience in the remote African rain forests with the endangered mountain gorillas are accounted in this ...

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,, ...

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

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The author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work.

An advisor to the recently crowned King James I, Sir Robert Cecil relies on the practical advice of John Tradescant, a loyal and talented gardener, who becomes ...

Record of author's 1st and 2nd journeys to Alaska in 1879 and 1880, and part of 3rd trip in 1890. Contains notes on various Tlingit tribes.

Joining the successful John Muir Library Series, this is an elegant new edition of Muir's enduring celebration of the Sierra Nevada mountains he dedicated his ...

When she returned she produced a book that secured herreputation, only to have it savaged in the nineteenth century by scientists who disdained the work of ...

A definitive biography traces the life of John Muir from his boyhood in Scotland up to his death on the eve of World War I and offers important insights into ...

FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO CHAPTER I Earliest Memories Preamble — The house where I was born — The singular Ombu tree — A tree without a name — The plain — The ...

A sequel to Earthly Joy follows the life of John Tradescant the Younger, who works as a gardener to King Charles I before fleeing to the Royalist colony of ...

CHAPTER I Much of the work noted down for reappears in my father's list for. He was still at work upon, or meditating his Crayfish, his Introduction to ...

Depicts the life of John Muir--writer, scholar, inventor, shepherd, farmer, explorer, and naturalist--who devoted his life to the land, influenced the first ...

An in-depth biography of Jane Goodall describes how the seminal scientist and naturalist revolutionized the study of primates through her years of study of the ...

Introduction BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM T. STEARN Carl Linnaeus, later Carl von Linne (1707-1778), was the great biological encyclopaedist. ...