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Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of poet Seamus Heaney with its lyrical and descriptive powers
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This account of the naturalists search for the quetzal the symbol of Guatemala reveals the natural and human ecologies to be devastated by the countrys violent political turmoil
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Naturalist Joe Huttos latest adventures in wildlife observation take him to Wyomings Wind River Mountains Hutto is living in a tent at 12000 feet where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers Huttos job is to find out why For months at a time he follows the bighorn herds meets mountain lions and bears weathers injury and storms and beautifully observes the incredible splendor of the Rocky Mountains Hutto has a deep connection to Wyoming having managed a large cattle ranch in his past He weaves Wyomings history of the cowboy mountain ecology and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative Ultimately he discovers that the lambs are dying of a form of nutritional muscular dystrophy due to selenium deficiency which is caused by acid rain a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale and a new voice eloquently expressing the urgency that we mend our ways
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Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers Huttos job is to find out whyFor months at a time he follows the bighorn herds meets mountain lions and bears weathers injury and storms and beautifully observes the incredible splendor of the Rocky MountainsHutto has a deep connection to Wyoming having managed a large cattle ranch in his past He weaves Wyomings history of the cowboy mountain ecology and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative Ultimately he discovers that the lambs are dying of cystic fibrosis due to selenium deficiency which is caused by acid rain a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale and a new voice eloquently expressing the urgency that we mend our ways
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Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom omens of death and bringers of prophecy In fact owls are one of the oldest species of vertebrate animal with fossils dating back 60 million yearsOwls have been a source of inspiration to writers artists historians and naturalists alike In a muchanticipated volume on one of Britains most fascinating group of birds Mike Toms draws on a wealth of experience and research providing a comprehensive natural history of British owlsThe first part of the book covers various aspects of owl taxonomy origins anatomy behaviour and ecology and looks across the British owl species drawing comparisons and highlighting differences The second part takes each species in turn to provide a more detailed perspective fleshing out relevant conservation issues behaviour and statusToms explores Britains beloved Barn Owl Tawny Owl and Snowy Owl amongst several others He uses the vast database and latest research from his work with the British Trust for Ornithology BTO to focus particularly on the specifics of owls breeding ecology their dispersal patterns diet vocalisations description population changes and mortality He addresses conservation issues changes in legislation and potential changes in the status of one of Britains most iconic birds providing a fascinating overview of the biology and history of British owls
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Contrary to public perception sand dunes are not barren piles of sand They are alive with plant life The dunes themselves even move sometimes several inches a year InnbspDune CountrynbspJanice Emily Bowers takes readers from New Mexicos White Sands to Utahs Coral Pink Dunes to the Death Valley dunes of California and beyond Beautifully written and illustratednbspDune Countrynbspis a perfect introduction to the fragile ecosystems of sand dunes
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During a meteoric career that spanned from 1825 to 1834 David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna over many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest Despite his early death colleagues in Great Britain attached the Douglas name to more than 80 different species including the iconic timber tree of the region David Douglas a Naturalist at Work is a colorfully illustrated collection of essays that examines various aspects of Douglass career demonstrating the connections between his work in the Pacific Northwest of the 19th century and the place we know today From the Columbia Rivers perilous bar to luminous blooms of mountain wildflowers from everchanging frontiers of technology to the quiet seasonal rhythms of tribal families gathering roots these essays collapse time to shed light on people and landscapes This volume is the companion book to a major museum exhibit about Douglass Pacific Northwest travels that will open at the Northwest Museum of Arts amp Culture in Spokane in September 2012
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Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom omens of death and bringers of prophecy In fact owls are one of the oldest species of vertebrate animal with fossils dating back 60 million yearsOwls have been a source of inspiration to writers artists historians and naturalists alike In a muchanticipated volume on one of Britains most fascinating group of birds Mike Toms draws on a wealth of experience and research providing a comprehensive natural history of British owlsThe first part of the book covers various aspects of owl taxonomy origins anatomy behaviour and ecology and looks across the British owl species drawing comparisons and highlighting differences The second part takes each species in turn to provide a more detailed perspective fleshing out relevant conservation issues behaviour and statusToms explores Britains beloved Barn Owl Tawny Owl and Snowy Owl amongst several others He uses the vast database and latest research from his work with the British Trust for Ornithology BTO to focus particularly on the specifics of owls breeding ecology their dispersal patterns diet vocalisations description population changes and mortality He addresses conservation issues changes in legislation and potential changes in the status of one of Britains most iconic birds providing a fascinating overview of the biology and history of British owls
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A stirring reappraisal of the brilliant maligned psychoanalytic thinkerRobert S Corrington offers the first thorough reconsideration of Wilhelm Reichs life and work since Reichs death in 1957 Reich was seventeen years old at the outbreak of World War I and had already witnessed the suicides of his mother and father A native of Vienna he became a disciple of Freud but by his late twenties having already written his classic The Function of the Orgasm he fled the Third Reich and departed too from Freudian psychoanalysisIn The Mass Psychology of Fascism Reich first took the now classic position that social behavior has its every root in sexual behavior and repression But the psychoanalytic community was made uncomfortable by this claim and it was said by the time of Reichs death in an American prison on dubious charges brought by the federal government that Reich had squandered his prodigal genius and surrendered to his own paranoia and psychosis an opinion still responsible for the neglect and misconception of Reichs contribution to psychologyIn this transfixing psychobiography Corrington illuminates the themes and obsessions that unify Reichs work and reports on Reichs fascinating unrelenting oneman quest to probe the ultimate structures of self world and cosmos
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This book traces John Muirs adventures in Southern California from his first visit in 1877 to his death in Los Angeles in 1914 He pursued conservation goals and met with such luminaries as Andrew Carnegie and Theodore Roosevelt The book includes letters and newspaper articles from the time contemporary with Muirs visits
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This account of the naturalists search for the quetzal the symbol of Guatemala reveals the natural and human ecologies to be devastated by the countrys violent political turmoil
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From one of the finest naturalistwriters of our time a fascinating investigation of Natures inspiring deathtolife cycleWhen a good friend with a severe illness wrote asking if he might have his green burial at Bernd Heinrichs hunting camp in Maine it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle And what are the lessons ecological to spiritual raised by a close look at how the animal world renews itself Heinrich focuses his wholly original gaze on the fascinating doings of creatures most of us would otherwise turn away fromfield mouse burials conducted by carrion beetles the communication strategies of ravens the premier northern undertakers and the inadvertent teamwork among wolves and large cats foxes and weasels bald eagles and nuthatches in coldweather dispersal of prey Heinrich reveals too how and where humans still play our ancient and important role as scavengers thereby turningnot dust to dustbut life to life
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Mary Anning was one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology the first woman palaeontologist to make important discoveries After her death many of her discoveries were credited to the naturalists who had bought her specimens This book reveals the littleknown life of this extraordinary woman from undeserved obscurity
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This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaneys first four collections Death of a Naturalist 1966 Door into the Dark 1969 Wintering Out 1972 and North 1975
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When Seamus Heaney prepared Opened Ground it came as close to being a Collected Poems as the author cared to make it The edition draws from four decades of Seamus Heaneys verse together with examples of his work as a translator from his scintillating debut Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year The book concludes with Crediting Poetry the speech with which Seamus Heaney accepted the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to him in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters for his works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth Opened Ground remains the most comprehensive edition of his work that Seamus Heaney ever made
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Steve Irwin AKA the Crocodile Hunter was only 44 when his untimely death robbed the world of one of its greatest and most popular naturalists conservationists and environmentalists Though an undeniably gifted broadcaster and consummate showman Irwin was first and foremost an animal lover and his hugely successful media career grew organically out of his allconsuming passion for wildlife and the natural world This book traces the extraordinary story of the boy who was catching crocodiles in rivers by the age of nine and who grew up to become in the words of RSPCA Queenslands CEO a modernday Noah
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