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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern RussiaI saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist... |
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American... |
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The End of Everything:
Katie Mack · Scribner
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look - in the bestselling tradition of Sean Carroll and Carlo Rovelli - at the five different ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important... |
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Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness
David Gessner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide. "Leave it as it is," Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand... |
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Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell
Sue Leaf · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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At twenty, Newton Horace Winchell declared, "I know nothing about rocks." At twenty-five, he decided to make them his life's work. As a young geologist tasked with heading the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey, Winchell (1839-1914) charted the prehistory of the region,... |
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