Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 030018073X
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Author : E.C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 022614867X
This book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic's natural history—sky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insects—for those who will experience the Arctic firsthand and for armchair travelers who would just as soon read about its splendors and surprises. It is packed with answers to naturalists' questions and with questions—some of them answered—that naturalists may not even have thought of.
Author : Jack Rudloe
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Suzanne Slade
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404863974
Discusses the ocean ecosystem and the role of the sea otter as a keystone species in helping to maintain it, describing the otter's place on the food chain and what would happen if the sea otter were to become extinct.
Author : Archie Carr
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307832112
The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation. In addition to sea turtle biology, Carr recorded his general impressions, producing a natural history sprinkled with colorful stories.
Author : Corey Ford
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0882409735
Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's greatest outdoor writing" by Field & Stream magazine, and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition, and Georg Steller's significant discoveries as an early naturalist.
Author : James McClintock
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1137279907
Internationally recognized marine biologist Jim McClintock combines his deep expertise as a marine biologist with his personal passion for fishing in a beautifully written narrative
Author : Ann Arnold
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374399474
On June 4, 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller set sail from Avacha Bay in Siberia on the St. Peter, under the command of Vitus Bering. The crew was bound for America on the last leg of an expedition whose mission was to explore, describe, and map Russia’s vast lands from the Ural Mountains across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and possibly lay claim to the northwest coast of America – if they could find it, for no European had ever reached America by this route. Officially, Steller was the ship’s mineralogist, but in practice he was its doctor, minister, and naturalist as well. Appointed to the expedition in 1737 by the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, he was sworn to secrecy concerning any discoveries. Making judicious use of Steller’s richly detailed journals and liberal use of illustrations and maps, Ann Arnold allows the reader to join Steller on this fascinating voyage and its final dangerous mission, which left half the crew dead and the rest suffering from scurvy.
Author : Archie Carr
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300068542
Archie Carr (1909-1987), the eminent naturalist, writer, and conservationist, was particularly entranced by the wildlife and ecosystems of Florida, where he lived for more than 50 years. This book - which includes some of his essays - is full of details and anecdotes about the flora, fauna, and humans that have inhabited Florida's colourful landscape.
Author : Marco Lambertini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226468283
Beautifully illustrated throughout with color plates, photographs, and drawings, this volume is a comprehensive introduction to the natural history of the tropics worldwide. 59 color photos. 21 maps.
