Pleasant Valley
Ballantine Books, February 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Nature
Pit Bull
Knopf, May 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs--and what role humans have played in the transformation. When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the..... More
Birds of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa
Institute of Pacific Studies, December 1982. Oversized Hardcover. More
Freshwater Fishes of Virginia
American Fisheries Society, February 1994. Cloth. Quarto -- Eight & 3/4-inch x Eleven & 1/4-inch; In edgeworn dustjacket, slightly rubbed. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine & front board. Complete number string. (1079 pages). More
Fish Migration and Fish Bypasses ('Fishing News' Books)
Wiley, September 1998. Hardcover. International Conference on Fish Migration and Bypass Channels held in Vienna in September 1996. It covers the range of fish pass technologies currently in use throughout the world and attempts to develop a wider, more ecological perspective on this formerly engineering-orientated discipline. Emphasis is placed on..... More
Silent Spring
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. In much edgeworn, chipped dustjacket. Darkening to verso. Not price clipped. Original price of $5 on front jacket flap. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering. title centered in top half of front board. Spine is darkening and the gold lettering is..... More
Cry of the Kalahari
Houghton Mifflin, October 1985. Paper Back. After spending seven years in the Kalahari Desert, the authors provide a beautiful documentary examining wildlife in the Kalahari. Their adventure is the focus of a National Geographic special for television airing in January insert. More
The Overloaded Ark
Faber & Faber, April 1987. Trade Paperback. Relates the author's experiences and adventures during a 6-month expedition in West Africa to collect specimens for his zoo. More
That Quail, Robert
William Morrow & Company, August 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. The acclaimed story of the little bird that won the nation's heart He'll never live, the neighbors all said. But Robert, the abandoned quail chick would prove them wrong. Born on a kitchen counter in a house on Cape Cod, raised..... More
Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration
Wiley, September 2003. Hardcover. Completely updated to keep pace with current technology. * Provides a firm grounding the fundamentals, theory, and latest techniques. * Includes completely updated case studies. More
Design of Fishways and Other Fish Facilities
Lewis Publishing, February 1995. Hardcover. This new edition of the best-selling book describes the main types of fishways and fish facilities used around the world to assist the passage of fish over dams and other obstructions to their migration. It also focuses on the protection of fish (mainly young fish)..... More
Cranes of the World
Indiana University Press, December 1984. Cloth. Dusty, soiled cloth with gold lettering. Soiling to end pages. Clean text. Edgeworn jacket with soiling, especially to verso. Quarto. Clean text. More
Guide to the Birds of Madagascar
Yale University Press, November 1990. Cloth. Madagascar, isolated for at least 120 million years and the fourth largest island in the world, is home to a remarkable variety of endemic animals and plants. This book is a guide to the unusual bird life of Madagascar. 40 watercolour illustrations provide clear..... More
Birds of the High Andes: A Manual to the Birds of the Temperate Zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America
Apollo Booksellers, June 1990. Hardcover. Written by two of the leading explorers in the birdlife of the High Andes, this book sets new standards in this field. The book is illustrated by Jon Fjeldsaa, one of the World's most gifted bird artists, who again has proved his accuracy with the..... More
Birds of Prey of Southern Africa: Their Identification and Life Histories
Tanager Books, April 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Clean, sound, with mildly worn jacket. More
Wild Geese of the World
B. T. Batsford Limited, January 1980. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. In dust jacket with tear at top of spine. Quarto. Green tint to top textblock edge. More
Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management in the American West
University of Arizona Press, December 1991. First Edition. Cloth. In 1962 the Green River was poisoned and its native fishes killed so that the new Flaming Gorge Reservoir could be stocked with non-native game fishes for sportsmen. This incident was representative of water management in the West, where dams and..... More
A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
Princeton University Press, August 1986. Trade Paperback. Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent..... More
Towards Zero Waste: How to Live a Circular Life
Permanent Publications, December 2019. Paper Back. ideas and inspiration for those looking to reduce their household waste Is recycling really the answer to household waste? How do we eliminate microplastics from our wastewater? How do we avoid consumer goods that are designed to break? How do we stop the oceans..... More
Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land
Chelsea Green Publishing, October 2019. Paper Back. Booklist Editors' Choice "Best Books of 2019" An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of..... More
Earth in Balance
Houghton Mifflin, January 1992. Hardcover. A passionate defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore described in this now classic best-selling book how the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe, threatening the destruction of nature and ultimately ourselves. Its groundbreaking analysis placed the environment..... More
The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace (Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy of Peace)
Brill | Rodopi, June 2015. Trade Paperback. The essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the field of peace studies, pacifism..... More
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges
Routledge, October 2010. Trade Paperback. This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the context of diverse ecosystems such as tropical forests, marine..... More
The Winter Beach
William Morrow & Co, January 1966. Hardcover. In edgeworn jacket. Appears to be later printing. More
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Henry David Thoreau - The Franklin Library - Henry Bugbee Kane Illustrations
The Franklin Library, January 1983. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. Limited edition. More
