Flora and Fauna | Nature
Nov.21.2012
Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine enables readers to gain a sense of the rewards and challenges of travel south of the 40th parallel in Chile and Argentina—in the area known as Patagonia. Through a combination of journal entries, interviews, historic documents, and essays on subjects...
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Oct.23.2012
Eyes of the Wild by Eleanor O’Hanlon takes the reader on an epic, personal journey from the Pacific Coast of Mexico to the edge of the Arctic pack ice, to meet whales and wolves, bears and wild horses. The journeys are guided by some of the world’s most remarkable...
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Jun.28.2012
American wildlife artist Charles R. Knight (1874–1953) spent a lifetime creating some of the first paintings and sculptures of dinosaurs, mammoths, and cavemen that were both spectacularly beautiful and scientifically accurate. For generations, his work has inspired scientists, artists, and...
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Dec.14.2011
Fire, paradoxically, is an integral part of healthy forest ecosystems. The biggest problem with wildland fire is suppression, not burning. After a century of aggressive fire suppression, we now see clearly that fire is as integral to forests as soils, sun, wind, water, insects, snow, ice and...
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Jun.13.2011
From the back cover:
Farming and gardening in the rich southern soil is the thematic inspiration for this volume of verse featuring close to 100 poets--Wendell Berry, Henry Taylor, Andrew Glaze, Robert Morgan, Nikki Giovanni, John Crowe Robinson, James Applewhite, C.D. Wright, Rodney Jones, Robert...
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May.11.2011
On April 20, 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his elder son Jack Fawcett and Jack's lifelong friend, Raleigh Rimmell, departed from Cuiabá, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, to find "Z" - Col. Fawcett's name for what he believed to be an ancient city lost in the...
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May.11.2011
This two-hour special traces the origins of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World—the land of dinosaurs and ape men. Dramatizations of 19th century British expeditions combine with a modern-day trek. An exploration team will travel to the mist-shrouded ancient plateau of "Roraima" in Venezuela,...
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Aug.04.2008
A fascinating exploration of the world underground and one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its role in the ecosystem is profound. It tills the soil, destroys microscopic organisms that cause plant disease, breaks down toxins, and turns soil into...
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Aug.04.2008
We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand perfection. So it’s no surprise that there is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers...
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Jun.17.2008
Both an art book and a botanical guide, Leaves & Pods reveals the splendor, complexity, and purpose of some of the most familiar objects in our natural world, combining aesthetic delight with scientific fact and philosophical wonder.
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