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Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
Unweaving the Web of
Destruction The continuing
devastation of the world's
tropical rain forest affects
us all—spurring
... > full story
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
There are redwoods in
California that were ancient
by the time Columbus first
landed, and pines still
alive that germinated around
... > full story
A Neotropical Companion
A second revised edition of
John Kricher's well-received
1989 text, A Neotropical
Companion distills whole
libraries of information on
the Americas' tropics.
Kricher explores the
... > full story
Young Men and Fire
On August 5, 1949, lightning
came crashing down in the
vast spruce forest above
Seeley Lake, Montana, and
touched off a roaring blaze.
As every Westerner knows,
lightning means fire, but
the fire that raged through
... > full story
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Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.Landscape is much more than scenery to be ... > read more -
Tropical Plants of Costa Rica: A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora
Ranging from miniature epiphytic orchids to towering trees, and from mangrove forests lining coastal waterways to high-elevation cloud forests, Costa Rica's rich and varied flora dazzles visitors ... > read more -
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern)
For the untrained observer, it can be quite a challenge to sort out the many trees that make up a stand of older forest in, say, New England or the Ozarks. This well-illustrated guidebook, covering ... > read more -
Rainforest
Over the past 16 years Swiss photographer Thomas Marent has traveled all over the world photographing rainforests, from Peru and Ecuador to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Usually traveling alone, ... > read more -
Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides)
This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen ... > read more -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in ... > read more -
Remarkable Trees of the World
"A stunning volume" (Time) and the most magnificent book on the world's trees published in years. The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Now in a handsome ... > read more -
Michigan Trees, Revised and Updated: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region
Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North ... > read more -
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. ... > read more -
A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization
A contemporary view of the effects of wood, as used for building and fuel, and of deforestation on the development of civilization.Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood has been the principal ... > read more
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