The Understory A Female Environmentalist In The Land Of The Midnight Sun

Author : M. E. Schuman
Publisher : Michelle Schuman
ISBN 13 : 9781737920601
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun written by M. E. Schuman and published by Michelle Schuman. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy haunted her. Her instinct to survive drove her. On the savanna of Zimbabwe, Michelle Schuman watched the tears fall from the eyes of a baby elephant as it mourned its mother, a bloody emptiness where her trunk and face were missing because of ignorance and self-indulgence. Deep in the bamboo forest of the Virunga Mountains, she was touched by a Mountain Gorilla. On the once-pristine shores of Prince William Sound, she bore witness to the sobering spectacle of hundreds of seals ready to give birth, dragging their blackened, distended bellies through the oozing black death of greed spilling from the guts of the Exxon Valdez. Although she also suffered an unbearable loss, and the dangers of working in remote areas of Alaska were real and tangible, the true threat to her survival was not from the natural world, but from the world of men who sought to tame her. Passion and peril are intertwined in this true tale of Michelle's drive to make the natural world a better place; she found her greatest hindrance not in physical challenges but in human adversaries. In the understory, largely concealed from view, are saplings and shrubs, herbs and grasses, rooted in a carpet of moss, beneath the canopy of trees. They provide the sustenance for the magnificent forest, and this is the inspiring story of one woman's battle from beneath the forest canopy to the beyond-in a scramble to undo what has been done.

Author : Mark Charan Newton
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0345520866
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nights of Villjamur written by Mark Charan Newton and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mark Charan Newton's City of Ruin. Beneath a dying red sun sits the proud and ancient city of Villjamur, capital of a mighty empire where humans coexist with the birdlike garda race, the reptilian rumel who can live for hundreds of years, and the eerie banshees whose forlorn cries herald death. But now all life is threatened by an encroaching ice age. Throngs of refugees gather outside the city gates, while within, tragedy forces the Emperor’s elder daughter, Jamur Rika, to assume the throne. Joined by her younger sister, Jamur Eir, the new queen takes pity on the common people—and takes counsel from dashing teacher Randur Estevu, who is not what he seems. Meanwhile, a grisly murder draws rumel investigator Rumex Jeryd into a web of corruption—and an obscene conspiracy that imperils the lives of Rika and Eir and the future of Villjamur itself. But far north, where the drawn-out winter has already begun, an even greater danger appears, against which all the empire’s military and magical power may be useless—a threat from another world.

Author : Joseph GOLDBERG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781795661423
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hen, Two Ducks, Three Squawking Geese written by Joseph GOLDBERG and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the mid-80s and Jason Gold was fast approaching his 35th year on earth. He'd become resigned to a life well below what he's envisioned for himself as a young man. Being a high school teacher wasn't so bad but he felt he'd squandered the chance of doing something bigger and more rewarding He also never had one serious romantic relationship, walking away from one fling after another. One in particular still bothered him. While taking a cross country trip with two friends a decade earlier he met a waitress named Julie King and was smitten. Jason always wondered what might have happened if he had stayed with her in Atlanta. He was certain it was now too late to find a new career, and assumed nothing would differ when it came to women. Everything changed however, when an entrepreneur named Harold Hirschorn entered his life. A part time job tutoring Harold's son led to summer employment and eventually a permanent position, at Mr. Hirschorn's newest company, National Finance. The pair traveled around the country from their base in Philadelphia, building the business. Jason was now living in the fast paced and exciting life of major commercial real estate development. They soon became involved with South American drug dealers, the CIA and even the Iran-Contra affair. A chance encounter with Julie King drew her into a world of intrigue and danger along with Jason.

Author : John Monteith
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780713129311
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Environmental Physics written by John Monteith and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1990-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and up-dated edition of a highly successful textbook.

Author : Mary Albanese
Publisher : Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN 13 : 9781935347170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon written by Mary Albanese and published by Epicenter Press (WA). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys to the Edge of the Map A young upstate New York woman begins the adventure of a lifetime as she moves away from her safe and conventional path. Mary Albanese is unable to resist the excitement and challenge of becoming a geological explorer in Alaska, where she maps remote wilderness areas and journeys to the depths of her own heart. Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon is a memoir full of accentric characters with human failings. Its landscape reveals the courage and sacrifice of the author's "family" of visionary explorers who mapped the wild state. The author persists in the face of hardships and tragedy, surviving dangers most people will never face even in their worst nightmares. Book jacket.

Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439354
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of the Wild written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.

Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107199131
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towns, Ecology, and the Land written by Richard T. T. Forman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078674703X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out Of Control written by Kevin Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Author : Malcolm Margolin
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597142174
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ohlone Way written by Malcolm Margolin and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 1978-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at what Native American life was like in the Bay Area before the arrival of Europeans. Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” This land of “inexpressible fertility,” as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America. One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans. Recently included in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 Western Non-Fiction list, The Ohlone Way has been described by critic Pat Holt as a “mini-classic.” Praise for The Ohlone Way “[Margolin] has written thoroughly and sensitively of the Pre-Mission Indians in a North American land of plenty. Excellent, well-written.” —American Anthropologist “One of three books that brought me the most joy over the past year.” —Alice Walker “Margolin conveys the texture of daily life, birth, marriage, death, war, the arts, and rituals, and he also discusses the brief history of the Ohlones under the Spanish, Mexican, and American regimes . . . Margolin does not give way to romanticism or political harangues, and the illustrations have a gritty quality that is preferable to the dreamy, pretty pictures that too often accompany texts like this.” —Choice “Remarkable insight in to the lives of the Ohlone Indians.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A beautiful book, written and illustrated with a genuine sympathy . . . A serious and compelling re-creation.” —The Pacific Sun

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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.