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1982

The Amateur Naturalist

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Gerald Durrell - 1982

Now available in paperback, a practical guide to the natural world which offers advice on observing, monitoring, recording, studying and helping to conserve nature.

First published in 1982.

Down the River

Edward Abbey - 1982

"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes a hard look at the MX missile system, slated for the American West.

"For 23 years now I've been floating rivers. Always downstream, the easy and natural way. The way Huck Finn and Jim did it, LaSalle and Marquette, the mountain men, and Major Powell."

The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country

Gary Paul Nabhan - 1982

From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the dynamics of their arid homeland in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

The Desert Smells Like Rain offers insights into the natural history of desert plants and animals as it documents a dying agricultural tradition that has enriched the biological diversity of the Papago's seemingly harsh environment. Drawing on his extensive scientific research and study of Papago folklore, as well as his years of work among the Desert People in village gardening and nutrition programs, Nabhan portrays a desert-adapted way of life that has persisted despite the pressures of modern civilization.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils

Ida Thompson - 1982

This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, bones, as well as fossil-bearing rocks and outcrop formations.

The descriptive text includes information on size, geological period, geographical distribution, and ecology of the animal or plant before it was fossilized. In addition, the book provides lists of Geological Survey offices and major fossil collections, a geological time chart, and a guide to collecting and preserving fossils.

Time on the Water

Bill Gardner - 1982

Paperback - One man's quest for the ultimate Musky - A "rip-roarin'account of Gardner's 200 days in pursuit of the ultimate musky.

Anyone who's ever sent a jerk bait flying in the direction of one of them freshwater hawgs, read it and weep."

Where The Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie

John Madson - 1982

Describing prairie restorations, this work provides an up-to-date directory of representative tallgrass prairies, prairie nurseries and seed sources..

Describing prairie restorations, this work provides an up-to-date directory of representative tallgrass prairies, prairie nurseries and seed sources.

Of Time and Place

Sigurd F. Olson - 1982

Of Time and Place is a legacy from one of the best-loved nature writers of our time.

In this, his last book completed just before his death, Sigurd F. Olson guides readers through his wide-ranging memories of a lifetime dedicated to the preservation of the wilderness.

The Possible And The Actual (Jessie And John Danz Lectures)

François Jacob - 1982

Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya

George B. Schaller - 1982

"A field biologist of international eminence, [Schaller] describes his sorties into eleven different but equally remote and hazardous sites in the mountain wilderness of Pakistan, India, and Nepal.

. . . High adventure, absorbing science." --New Yorker