Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Flower Arranging 

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

A leading philosopher of science discusses the evolution of the cephalopod mind, shares photos of cephalopod encounters taken during his advanced scuba dives, and offers insights into how nature became self-aware.

Other Minds

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Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of “ecological” ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but rather a brief period of modern amnesia. As Nash shows us, place-based accounts of illness re-emerged in the postwar decades, galvanizing environmental protest against smog and toxic chemicals. Carefully researched and richly conceptual, Inescapable Ecologies brings critically important insights to the histories of environment, culture, and public health, while offering a provocative commentary on the human relationship to the larger world. #Environment #Nature #Environmental #History

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A history of environment, disease, and knowledge

Inescapable ecologies

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James Herriot

The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor

The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his keen, loving eye. In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot's periodic visits to the overfed and pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot's recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together to be able to get proper care for their working animals. From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world shine forth. James Herriot's memoirs have sold 80 million copies worldwide, and continue to delight and entertain readers of all ages.

All Creatures Great and Small

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#paperback #nonfiction #octopus #nature #memoir #ocean #animals #myoctopusteacher 

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

"An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"--

The Soul of an Octopus

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Robert Macfarlane

A Deep Time Journey

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.

Underland

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Norbert Wu

The only signs of use are on the dust jacket which can be seen in the photos

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Photographs of Norbert Wu

Splendors of the Seas

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John Hargrove

Howard Chua-Eoan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish

*Now aNew York Times Best Seller*

Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers.

After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act.

In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant orcas in SeaWorld. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld.

Hargrove's journey is one that humanity has just begun to take-toward the realization that the relationship between the human and animal worlds must be radically rethought.

Beneath the Surface

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Vintage kids ecology workbook in great preloved condition with minor wear to cover as a result of age. No marks on pages. #kids #science #livingscience #educational #teaching #nature #animals

New York

Science

A Kid's Guide to Ecology, Pre-Gr. 2

Provides activities and lessons to introduce young children to relationships in nature.

The Earth and Me

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Arizona

Letters of Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton

Going sketching now, will write again soon. 

John Muir

From one of America's greatest environmentalists, here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery.



Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civil War.



This book makes the perfect gift for an aspiring naturalist, hiking enthusiast, or lover of southeastern terrain.

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Green Thumb Magic for the Great Indoors

Gardening Wizardry For Kids

Richard Powers

Washington

A Novel

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Overstory

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Vintage 1969 🌋 The Story of Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Vintage 1961 - Adventures in Nature and Science 

Vintage 1961 - The Solar System 

This is the 1943 Rotapfel pressing printed for Collet’s Holdings, Bookshops, LTD. It is a rare folio of 16 lithographs from the renown Swiss painter and graphic artist, Niklaus Stöcklin - who was an exponent of New Objectivity and Magic Realism. 

All 16  lithographs are present with no rips or tears. This copy has some shelf wear and slight browning on the edge of the pages. It also has some light scratches on both sides of the cover. The spine is still in good condition, and there is only one annotation on the opening page that says “20.”.

New Mexico

Studies by Niklaus Stöcklin

Beauties of Nature

The Complete Book of the Gladiolus (1953)

SCARCE. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Solid hardcover based largely on data gathered by Arthur Herbert Norton. Clean, lightly aged-toned pages with no writing, no folded pages. Previous owner label in front: William Hussey Chisholm. Includes a separate corrigenda page dated January, 1950 from the Bulletin Maine Audubon Society. Some staining to boards with a little fraying at spine top and bottom. Spine is faded but still legible. No DJ. (SW3). Ships in a box, protected with bubble wrap. I see 3 copies for sale, $30-$60. (6F)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Maine Birds  **

#hardcover #nature #minnesota #wilderness #canoe #bwca #americana #vintage

This vintage hardcover is a rare find, collectors item for lovers of nature writing. It is in good condition, with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages and covers are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has some tears on the spine and along the page edges in front, also a very small stain on the lower front right. Published in 1938, this edition printed in 1958.

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Minnesota

Canoe Country 

Published 1934, Heritage Press Collector’s Edition with slipcase and Sandglass notes laid-in

The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published 1948, Heritage Press Collector's Edition; illustrated, with slipcase and Sandglass insert

The Compleat Angler

Ohio

This collection is a journey of discovery through one of the most exciting periods of science. Here is the history of paleontology, spanning from the discovery of the first dinosaur bone by Robert Plot (which he mistook as a leg bone from an extinct race of giant humans) to the discovery and classification of T. rex. The editors have included translations of classic European papers, giving their story a global focus. Each section of the book is accompanied by a commentary from by the editors that puts each paper in context. The artwork is outstanding, containing all the classic dinosaur sketches including the missing link- Archaeopteryx.

The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906

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National Audubon Society

Massachusetts

North America

The most comprehensive field guide available to the insects and spiders of North America--a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.

Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700 full-color identification photographs organized visually by color and shape, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders is the perfect companion for any outdoor excursion. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range, feeding habits, sounds or songs, flight period, web construction, life cycle, behaviors, folklore, and environmental impact. An illustrated key to the insect orders and detailed drawings of the parts of insects, spiders, and butterflies supplement this extensive coverage.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders

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Bill Colegrave

Normal wear

By Bill Colegrave

The Oxus in Afghanistan's High Pamir is one of the greatest rivers of the world, and also one of the least known. Running through the core of Central Asia, it is unusual in a myriad of waysthe most surprising of which is that it never reaches the sea. Through the centuries, the majestic Oxus has been the source of legends. For explorers and travelers in Central Asia, the Oxus provided an enduring mystery. Where exactly was its source? In 2008 Bill Colegrave and two colleagues set out to find the true source and settle the argument for once and all. No easy task, but they succeeded. This is a vivid account of this quest, and also tells of the author's previous precarious visits to one of the most unstable regions of the world.

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Going sketching now, will write again soon.

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