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Teaches why children need nature in their lives, how to begin and continue going on adventures with them, and how to enjoy the process along the way. This book helps adults ...

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A beautifully written and thought-provoking record of a year spent observing the natural world in a city, which looks afresh at our relationship to the weather, the plants ...

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A humorous, original guide to the waves that surround us and through which we experience the world, by the bestselling author of The Cloudspotter’s Guide.

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A runaway Top Ten hardback bestseller becomes a must-have non-fiction paperback for summer 2007.

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`I watched the mirror for a last view, for now, of the frozen mountains of Glen Coe. As the road bent and the outline of Buachaille Etive Mor slid into sight, I did what I ...

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Explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of ...

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Chris Yates, one of Britain’s most insightful and lyrical writers, raises his gaze from his beloved rivers and ponds and takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British ...

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Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book combines all three young mens experiences ...

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Some of the world’s most advanced work on biodiversity is being carried out deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea by a team including local tribes-people. Novotny’s ...

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An eyewitness account of First World conservationists’ attempts to rescue the extraordinary biodiversity of Madagascar, and the environment of its people.

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The Natural History of Selborne (1789)is written as a series of letters, which describe with wit and precision the flora and fauna White observes in his Hampshire parish. A ...

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Climate change is eroding the familiar pattern of the seasons, so we turn instinctively to the life cycle of herbaceous plants to guide us through the year. Herbaceous is a ...