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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the natural wonders of Earth, showcasing the variety of life that exist on the planet, exploring mountain, freshwater, ocean, desert, jungle, and other habitats, and stressing the ongoing need for conservation.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The ecologist and author of Do We Need Pandas? "presents a stimulating challenge to our perceptions of nature" and non-native species (George Monbiot). You may be surprised to learn that camels evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America--and also that the leek, national symbol of Wales, was a Roman import to Britain, as were chickens, rabbits and pheasants. These classic examples highlight the issues of "native" and "invasive"...
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