Resultados de búsqueda: Natural History from High-Lonesome Books

Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 94 pgs, color photos, illustrations and maps. Leads you to ninety premier wildlife viewing areas and gives you better chances of seeing wildlife when you arrive.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Game & Fish Department, 1984. Paperback. Good. 6 x 9, 114 pgs, b&w photos & maps. Description, distribution and life history of tassel-eared squirrels, fox squirrels and red squirrels as well as issues in squirrel management and hunting. Slight damp wrinkling to bottom edge of most pages.

New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 6 x 9, 322 pgs, index, bibliography, notes. In a book often shocking, always passionate and inevitably controversial, the author brings desperately needed illumination to one of the most important and emotional issues of our time: the threat to Africa's wildlife, and especially to the elephant. In cutting through prevailing misinformation to documented truth, he makes abundantly clear that unless we address the needs of Africans in their poverty and despair--instead of attempting to impose culturally biased Western solutions--the people will out of necessity destroy the wildlife, no matter how much Westerners protest.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 9, 342 pgs, index, 12 colored plates of Audubon prints, b&w illustrations. The story of John James Audubon and his life observing and painting nature. Ex-library with the usual markings. Protected by custom dustjacket in brodart cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 9, 342 pgs, index, 12 colored plates of Audubon prints, b&w illustrations. The story of John James Audubon and his life observing and painting nature. Cover spotted but in good condition.

New York: Villard Books, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 408 pgs, index, section of b&w photos. The story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero.

Australia: Sorrett Publishing, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 10 x 10 1/2, 208 pgs, index, b&w and color photos and illustrations. An interesting look at the vast minerals of Australia.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Revised. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 4 x 7, 384 pgs, b&w illustrations. The absorbing story of man from his own beginnings to the beginnings of written history, and a study of the relationship between culture and man.

New York: Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Good+ in Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 340 pgs, b&w illustrations by Olaus J. Murie. The eternal drama of the battle for survival among the species.

Carlsbad, NM: Carlsbad Caverns Natural History Assn., 1987. Paperback. Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 32 pgs, color photos. Very comprehensive description of each species which occupies Carlsbad Caverns.

New York: Praeger, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good in Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 246 pgs, index/notes. In two parts, "Wilderness Values", and "Saving the Wilderness", it shows how wilderness can provide new generations a link with the spirit of adventure and exploration at the heart of our nation's history.

Luray, Virginia, 1980. Paperback. Good-. 7 1/2 x 5, 24 pgs, b&w photos. The front cover features a photograph of "Titania's Veil and Saracens Tent" in the Caverns. Gives the history and highlights of Luray Caverns, automobile routes, rail connections, Skyline Drive, etc.

New York: W.H. Freeman, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. 7 x 9, 176 pgs, index, bibliographies, b&w photos and illustrations. Readings from the Scientific American.

Flagstaff, AZ: Good Stewards Project, 1998. Paperback. Very Good+. 8 1/2 x 11, 104 pgs, color photos by Jay Dusard. Reveals the power of conservation/ranching partnerships and shows that when debate becomes dialogue, innovation results.

Winona, MN: Big River, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 191 pgs, index. From the Big River newsletter, a variety of articles about the Upper Mississippi, covering bass and gizzard shad, piloting a paddlewheeler and living in a boathouse, ancient earthworks and collapsing bridges, and more.

Las Cruces, NM: NMSU Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin, 1973. Staplebound Pamplet. Very Good. 6 x 9, 69 pgs, photos, illustrations, charts. Study of tape worm parasites.

Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing, 1978. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8 x 9 1/2, 584 pgs, index, b&w and color photos. College biology text book: chemistry, energy, cells, inheritance, reproduction, development, homeostasis, hormones and nerves, behavior, communities and competition, populations, resources, and much more.

New York: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 9 1/2 x 9 1/2, 72 pgs, beautiful color photos. All you need to know about how to encourage birds and butterflies to return or set up residence in your garden.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ slipcase. 9 x 12, 1069 pgs total, color illustrations. The classic on birds of Texas.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 249 pgs, index. The author's second book, an account of a trip he made in 1983 to Guatemela in search of the quetzal, the bird of life, a bird whose existence in endangered both by loss of habitat and by the civil war raging in Guatemela. A blend of political, social and natural history.