Natural Encounters

Author : Jennifer Wharton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521715164
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Encounters: The Natural World Student's Book written by Jennifer Wharton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A content-based reading, study skills, and writing book that introduces students to topics in Earth science and biology relevant to life today -- from cover.

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243480
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Encounters written by Bruce M. Beehler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twelve-month excursion through nature's seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons," lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation's capital, Beehler describes trips to nature's most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover's bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one's own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.

Author : Paul Marshall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019153546X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystical Encounters with the Natural World written by Paul Marshall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R. M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W. R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R. C. Zaehner, W. T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience.

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244894
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Encounters written by Bruce M. Beehler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twelve-month excursion through nature’s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this “personal encyclopedia of nature’s seasons,” lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year-long journey through the seasons as he describes the wildlife seen and special natural places savored in his travels up and down the Potomac River and other localities in the eastern and central United States. Some of these experiences are as familiar as observing ducks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., or as unexpected as collecting fifty-million-year-old fossils on a Potomac beach. Beyond our nation’s capital, Beehler describes trips to nature’s most beautiful green spaces up and down the East Coast that, he says, should be on every nature lover’s bucket list. Combining diary entries, riffs on natural subjects, field trips, photographs, and beautiful half-tone wash drawings, this book shows how many outdoor adventures are out there waiting in one’s own backyard. The author inspires the reader to embrace nature to achieve a more peaceful existence.

Author : Rob Cowen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022642426X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Ground written by Rob Cowen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban environs, nature is all around us, it is in us. It is us. This is what Rob Cowen discovered after moving to a new home in northern England. After ten years in London, he was suddenly adrift, searching for a sense of connection. He found himself drawn to a square-mile patch of waste ground at the edge of town. Scrappy, weed-filled, this heart-shaped tangle of land was the very definition of overlooked - a thoroughly in-between place that capitalism had no further use for, leaving nature to take its course. Wandering in meadows, woods, hedges, and fields, Cowen found it was also a magical, mysterious place, haunted and haunting, abandoned but wildly alive - and he fell in fascinated love."--Book jacket.

Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Nature written by Paul Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Krafel
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Nature written by Paul Krafel and published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Nature is a series of true stories or parables that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to wild landscapes, including canyons, tundra, and mountain ridges, while others contemplate the human-made world: water-diversion trenches and supermarket check-out lines. At one point, Krafel discovers a world in a one-inch-square patch of ordinary ground. Inspiring for parents and teachers seeking to encourage excitement about the positive role of people in nature, Krafel's work harkens to St. Exupery's The Little Prince, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees. As Barbara Damrosch has noted: [This book] is a gift.... With curiosity, wit, and a spare and graceful style, Krafel notes why birds in flocks land as they do, how islands can move upstream in a river, how kelp forests, swaying gently, break the force of the sea's power, how tundra plants create whole ecosystems on bare rock from mere specks of life. Yet there are no long-winded sermons about the woods, or cute anthropomorphizations of animals. The book's economical, unsentimental style is part of its originality. Paul Krafel's years as a park ranger afforded him time to walk and think--his job was to observe the world around him. He is now a teacher, creating a curriculum for young people that is built on a startlingly simple truth: The world around us is an extended conversation between "upward spirals"--nature in regenerative, procreative modes--and downward spirals toward entropy and disintegration. As nature refreshes and rebuilds, the downward spirals are overcome. Nature's process becomes the process of replenishing hope.

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Elliot & Thompson Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781907642210
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Tales written by Michael Allen and published by Elliot & Thompson Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Tales is a charming collection of encounters with the natural world from historic greats to modern household names and from Wildlife Trust supporters to leading naturalists. Including beautifully drawn illustrations and a foreword from Sir David Attenborough, Nature Tales is a captivating celebration of Britain's wildlife and countryside.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708630
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters with the Archdruid written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1977-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

Author : David Yarrow
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847858324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Encounters written by David Yarrow and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From big cats to elephants and indigenous communities, Wild Encounters is a must-have for nature lovers, conservationists, and anyone who is inspired by all that remains wild. David Yarrow travels from pole to pole and continent to continent to visit frozen Arctic tundras, vast African deserts, primordial rain forests, and remote villages, inviting us to truly connect with subjects we mistakenly think we have seen before. Yarrow takes the familiar—lions, elephants, tigers, polar bears—and makes it new again by creating iconic images that deliberately connect with us at a highly emotional level. For more than two decades, this legendary wildlife photographer has been putting himself in harm's way to capture the most unbelievable close-up animal photography, amassing an incomparable photographic portfolio, spanning six continents. Driven by a passion for sharing and preserving Earth's last great wild cultures and species, Yarrow is as much a conservationist as a photographer and artist. His work has transcended wildlife photography and is now collected and shown as fine art in some of the most famed galleries around the world. Featuring 160 of his most breathtaking photographs, Wild Encounters offers a truly intimate view of some of the world's most compelling—and threatened—species and captures the splendor and very soul of what remains wild and free in our world through portraits that feel close enough to touch.