Category Archives: Accessories
Tree: A Life Story
The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending. In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne
Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest
โ€A tree-treatise treat.โ€-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review )A walk in the park will never be the same after kids discover this awe-inspiring book.Meet Peter Wohlleben-but you can call him Peter the Forester!With his groundbreaking, internationally bestselling book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben established himself as a global advocate for forests and our relationship with
From the Elephant`s Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings
โ€This collection has a straightforward ambition: to redirect the interpretive perspective that readers bring to Lawrence Durrell`s literary works by returning their attention to his short prose.โ€ – From the Introduction Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century modernism. His antiauthoritarian tendencies put him at odds with
Water: Exploring the Blue Planet
Remarkable satellite photographs show where water is – or isn`t – and how we are using it. Water is in crisis. We are in crisis. All life depends on water and we are running out of it, but where exactly is the water and where is it going? This book provides new insight into the
Great White Shark: Myth and Reality
`Great White Shark` covers all aspects of this great but sadly misunderstood ocean predator. There are three sections: Portrait of the Great White; Searching for the Great White; and Requiem for the Great White? Together they describe shark biology and behaviour (some of it previously unknown, such as hunting in groups) and describe how researchers
A Whale for the Killing
When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a lagoon near his Newfoundland home, Farley Mowat rejoiced at the unique chance to observe one of the world`s most magnificent creatures up close. But some of his neighbors saw a different opportunity altogether: in a prolonged fit of violence, they blasted the whale with rifle fire,
