Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Wild Flower
Author: State Botanical Symbols
Author: Alan McPhersonPublisher:
ISBN: 148174884X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
"In this reference book over 200 state botanical symbols are presented with a brief informative text that highlights their adoptive legislation, [and] their botanical and social history. The color photo montages add visual interest to the pages."--Back cover.
Gems and Minerals
Author: The Brief
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Alpine Plants of North America
Author: Graham NichollsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781417558490
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
North America is replete with beautiful aplines, and this guide is equally useful to the traveler or the gardener for its identification, propagation, and cultivation information.
The Concise Encyclopedia of Favorite Wild Flowers
Author: Marjorie J. DietzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Law Notes
Author: Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Into the Wild
Author: Jon KrakauerPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307476863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
The Wonderful World of Pets
Author: Orbis Books (London) LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780856131844
Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description