For award-winning science writer and photographer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast opens a door to deeper ties and insights.
The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea.
In this book, the authors document in photos and words the experience of looking closely, through the passage of one year, at their 70 acres of Maine woods.
Published in association with The Artist magazine, this superbly illustrated book looks at many of the common problems encountered when using the popular painting medium of watercolour.
From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts.
Erhard Reuwich hat mit den Illustrationen des »Gart der Gesundheit« die Verfahren und Konstruktion evidenter Bilder, die Naturbeobachtung wiedergeben und Wissen vermitteln sollen, auf entscheidende Weise geprägt, wenn er nicht sogar die naturwissenschaftliche Illustration der Frühen Neuzeit erfunden hat.
Extreme Adventure is a high-octane, eye-popping dream collection of global fantasies, all personally experienced and photographed by award-winning travel photographer Peter Guttman.
El volumen de Mega Square Herbario está basado en la obra de Basilius Besler, el famoso experto en plantas que, por primera vez en la historia, describió, pintó y grabó más de mil especies de plantas.
In Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night, photographer Glenn Randall teaches you how to plan, shoot, and process professional-quality images of the night sky and more.
Dieses Buch ist kein Bestimmungsbuch über Pflanzen und Tiere, sondern es gibt auf praktische Weise Antworten auf viele Fragen, die sich neugierige Menschen stellen, wenn sie durch den Wald gehen.
Cat Island, just off the Mississippi Gulf Coast shoreline, has been home to some of the most dramatic events and remarkable stories in the nation's history.
In diesem Band von Tierstudien geht es um die verschiedenen Ebenen der vergeschlechtlichten Beziehung von Menschen zu anderen Tieren, aber auch anderer Tiere untereinander.
An up-to-date synthesis of comparative diving physiology research, illustrating the features of dive performance and its biomedical and ecological relevance.
American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South.
A diverse and entertaining collection of writing examining and celebrating the British Countryside, from falconry to foraging and from the musings of a nighttime angler to tips for seasonal drinking.
Das Mega Square-Buch Rosen präsentiert eine große Anzahl verschiedener Arten dieser einzigartigen Blume, die so viel Gefühl und kulturelle Bedeutung trägt.
Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect.
This easy-to-understand guide shows how to overcome technical limitations and learn to see horses in a new light, fine-tuning observation skills, and discovering how to take best advantage of photo opportunities.
Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful animal forms, detailed faces, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animals is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, scientific illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills.
With more than 130 illustrations, The Photographed Cat: Picturing Close Human-Feline Ties, 1900-1940 is both an archive and an analytical exploration of the close relationships between Americans and their cats during a period that is significant for photography and for modern understandings of animals as pets.
Landschaftsmalerei in Aquarell leichtgemacht: die reichweitenstarke YouTuberin zeigt in ihrem zweiten Buch mit viel Liebe zum Detail, wie magisch träumerische Landschaften im Handumdrehen auf Papier gebracht werden können!
Discover the trailblazing work of artist naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian in this beautifully illustrated volume on the life cycle of butterflies and moths.
Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses.
A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable "e;place apart"e; to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity.
The biggest-ever selection of first-hand accounts and news reports of shark attacks, both recent and historical, shows how sharks are masters of the ocean and how we enter their domain at our own risk.
Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants.
