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Author
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
All who have admired John Muir's ruggedly individualistic lifestyle, or who desire a greater appreciation of the history of environmental preservation in America, will be enthralled and enlightened by this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Following Muir from his ancestral home in Scotland, through his early years in the harsh Wisconsin wilderness, to his historic pilgrimage to California, Linnie Marsh Wolfe creates a full and rounded portrait of...
Author
Series
Naturalist novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns where others see chaos. So when mutilated bodies found deep in the Montana woods leave the cops searching blindly for clues, Theo sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Living in 1929 in Alaska, Tayler Hale, one of the first women naturalists loves adventure and the great outdoors. Unfortunately, she is running from her dangerous past which has caught up with her just as she has met Thomas Smith, a recent graduate returning home to the people he considers family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the meadows of Scotland to the farms of Wisconsin, from the swamps of Florida to the Alaskan tundra, John Muir loved the land. Born in 1838, he was a writer, a scholar, an inventor, a shepherd, a farmer, and an explorer, but above all, he was a naturalist. John Muir was particularly devoted to the high cliffs, waterfalls, and ancient giant sequoia trees that, through his careful influence, were set aside as the first national park in America...
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
12) White blood
Author
Series
Charlie Doig thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Doig is an explorer and naturalist caught up in the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. Trapped by the snow with his love, Elizaveta, they at first remain untouched by outside events and the familiar ways continue. But imperial Russia is doomed and with it all the old certainties.
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A British naturalist recounts how he and his wife acquired a menagerie of animals and set up their own zoo in this delightful memoir. For many years I had wanted to start a zoo.... Any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion. After a decade of supplying creatures...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important...
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 19
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A science educator honors children's curiosity and pockets full of "stuff" by introducing eight scientists who collected natural treasures when they were young. Collecting, sorting, and playing with shells, stones, and other objects taught these young people how to observe, classify, and discover"--
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