The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature - 6 Book Collection (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:"e;A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"e; is a narrative of a 2 week boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts, down the Concord River to the Middlesex Canal, to the Merrimack River, up to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, taken by Thoreau and his brother John.
This book is the first comprehensive guide to Florida's amazing variety of tree species: from scrub oak on the high central ridges to mangroves stretching along the southern coasts, from mighty live oaks to the delicate and diminutive hawthornes, from bald cypress with their knees poking up from the swamps to the coppery-colored gumbo limbo found in tropical hammocks of the Everglades and Keys, from the sabal palm found all over the state to the rare and endangered yew found only along the banks of the Apalachicola River in northern Florida.
Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle.
Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways.
Beautifully illustrated collection of naturalist projects anyone can do at homeFeatures 20 projects with clear descriptions of materials and tools, plus a few bonus activitiesIncludes step-by-step instructions with charming, informative illustrationsTips for troubleshooting and taking the project to the next levelThe Naturalist at Home emphasizes hands-on exploration with easy outdoor projects designed to help naturalists observe and study everything from invertebrates to mushrooms to mammals.
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant.
Schon in der Antike genutzt und heute wissenschaftlich bestätigt: Kraut und Wurzel des Beinwells wirken schmerzstillend, wundheilend und entzündungshemmend.
The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves.
A practical handbook for navigating the climate crisis in South AfricaSouth Africa's Survival Guide to Climate Change is a crucial handbook that explores the impending impacts of climate change on South Africa and offers practical strategies for preparation and mitigation.
Following on from his bestselling novels A Year in the Wild and Back to the Bush, James Hendry returns to the setting of Sasekile Private Game Reserve for another tale that takes the reader behind the scenes with the MacNaughton brothers, Angus and Hugh.
A very eager - and rather naive - Australian lawyer, Kerry Maxwell, flies into South Africa to volunteer at a wildlife orphanage run by notorious vet Graham Baird.
Auszug: "Ich möchte wissen, wie viele Vögel ihr dem Aussehen nach kennt, und was ihr über ihre Nester und ihre Lebensweise wißt Es gibt zwischen drei- bis vierhundert verschiedene deutsche Vögel, und sehr wenige Leute kennen sie alle.
Este livro foi feito com o objetivo de fornecer conhecimento direcionado aos criadores profissionais ou amadores de todo o mundo que satilde;o apaixonados pelo mundo impressionante da cria ccedil atilde o de codornas.
Esta obra está destinada a todas aquellas personas, que admiran o aman al caballo, pero que no conocen aspectos de su ser como animal, tanto en lo físico (necesidades y capacidades) como en lo síquico o emocional; el autor pone a disposición, importante información de manera sencilla y accesible.
En La Planta: estructura y función, se conceptúa la célula como la unidad básica en la cual tienen lugar una serie de procesos que determinan la supervivencia y calidad de la vida de la planta.
