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Author: David B. Rockwell Publisher: Berkley Trade ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 418
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Filled with lively essays, drawings, maps, tables and lists, this comprehensive home companion provides quick, up-to-date information on the natural history of North America. Available in both trade and hardcover editions.
Author: David B. Rockwell Publisher: Berkley Trade ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Filled with lively essays, drawings, maps, tables and lists, this comprehensive home companion provides quick, up-to-date information on the natural history of North America. Available in both trade and hardcover editions.
Author: Steve Nicholls Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226583422 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 535
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The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter’s dream, with populations of game too abundant and diverse to even fathom. It’s no wonder these first settlers thought they had discovered a paradise of sorts. Fortunately for us, they left a legacy of copious records documenting what they saw, and these observations make it possible to craft a far more detailed evocation of North America before its settlement than any other place on the planet. Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent’s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. Seamlessly blending firsthand accounts from centuries past with the findings of scientists today, Nicholls also introduces us to a myriad cast of characters who have chronicled the changing landscape, from pre–Revolutionary era settlers to researchers whom he has met in the field. A director and writer of Emmy Award–winning wildlife documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and PBS, Nicholls deploys a cinematic flair for capturing nature at its most mesmerizing throughout. But Paradise Found is much more than a celebration of what once was: it is also a reminder of how much we have lost along the way and an urgent call to action so future generations are more responsible stewards of the world around them. The result is popular science of the highest order: a book as remarkable as the landscape it recreates and as inspired as the men and women who discovered it.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biogeography Languages : en Pages : 92
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This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
Author: Kenn Kaufman Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618159888 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 708
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The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Author: Edward R. Ricciuti Publisher: Crescent ISBN: 9780517121641 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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Describes and presents over 230 color photos of the landscapes, plants, and animals of North America's high Arctic and tundra, coniferous forests, Eastern Mixed Forest, southeastern forests, mountains, grasslands, deserts, rivers, lakes, and wetlands, and also covers the evolution of the continent and conservation.
Author: James David Drake Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813931223 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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"In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examines how a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America's east coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think of their nation as America. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientific debates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn, solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of the Constitution."--Publisher description.
Author: David B. Rockwell
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