Dieses Buch behandelt die Stellung der Bienen in der Mythologie unterschiedlicher Kulturen, ihren Einzug in die Folklore sowie den Themenbereich rund um psychoaktive Honigsorten.
Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann und Roger Heim erforschten in den 50er Jahren die psychoaktiven Psilocybe-Arten Mexikos in interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit.
Eine der ältesten Kulturpflanzen der Erde könnte helfen, die Menschen ausreichend mit Kleidung, Papier, Öl, Brennstoff, Nahrung, Baumaterial und vielen Medizinen zu versorgen.
Dieser abschliessende Band der Nachtschatten-Reihe bietet eine Übersicht über alle Gattungen der Nachtschattengewächse: Von A wie Atropa bis W wie Witheringia zeigt der Journalist und Schriftsteller Markus Berger die Vielfalt dieser großen Pflanzenfamilie auf, die sowohl heimische wie auch exotische Spezies umfasst.
Neben Reiten und Bodenarbeit sind Freiheitsdressur und einfache Zirkuslektionen eine wunderbare Möglichkeit, das Pferd sinnvoll zu beschäftigen und gleichzeitig die Beziehung und das Vertrauen zu stärken.
Pygmies and Papuans (Illustrated Edition) is a vivid early twentieth-century account of exploration, ethnography, and natural history in Dutch New Guinea.
Shortlisted for the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing'Superb' Telegraph'There's a real sense of peace and magic in this beautiful book' Daisy Buchanan'Utterly endearing' Dr James Canton'A fantastic book for weird walkers and megalith-obsessives alike' Weird Walk 'I was alternately gripped and moved to tears by this brilliant, exquisite memoir.
This illustrated gathering brings together John Muir's major travel and nature writings-A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, and Steep Trails-into a panoramic record of American wilderness.
Walden is Thoreau's enduring meditation on simplicity, self-reliance, nature, and moral awakening, shaped by his two-year experiment living beside Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.
Named a Best Feel-Good Book by The Washington Post In the tradition of the beloved New York Times bestsellers Marley and Me and Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love, a charming, inspirational memoir about empathy, resilience, kindness, and an adorable deaf blind pink dog.
Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the last surviving remnants of the Caledonian forest which have survived, naturally seeding and growing since the last ice age.
Winner of the Favourite Scottish Nature Photography Book, 2020Cairngorm National Park is a massive area of mountains and passes, rivers and forests, settlements and wild land, located in the heart of Scotland.
Set in the urban pastoral of an East London postcode, Feral Borough asks what it means to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non-human inhabitants.
New from the author of The Times nature book of the year 2019The Easternmost Sky describes country life and living with coastal erosion, in the recent past, the present and the relatable future.
