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Author
Publisher
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An intricately crafted journey through four seasons of flora and fauna. Helen Ahpornsiri's intricate artwork transforms leaves, petals, and seeds into bounding hares, swooping swallows, and blossoming trees. Using nothing but pressed plants, this journey through the seasons captures the wonder and magic of the natural world between the pages of a book. This standout title with beautiful nonfiction text will take readers through an extraordinary year...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Nature Connection is packed with fun activities for using our senses to connect to nature in a deep and nourishing way. From "extenda-ears" and acorn whistles to camouflage games and scent scavenger hunts, enjoy over 70 diverse and incredible sensory nature activities for all ages."--
7) Wake-robin
Author
Series
Works volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[c1913]
Language
English
8) Fresh fields
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and company
Pub. Date
[c1912]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Eye Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? Discovering more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments, he learns...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 238
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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