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Discusses in twenty volumes the geography, vegetation, animal life, and resources of various regions throughout the world.

Readers can experience four seasons of nature's miraculous moments through this collection of inspirational essays from "Audubon" magazine.

Draws on the perspectives of sixty eminent scientists to discuss what is currently understood about the functioning of the planet as it relates to massive changes in the environment, in an extensively illustrated reference that features such sections as evolution, animal behavior, and global warming.

" ... Hundred of ideas, thoughts, and suggestions intended to assist and inspire us to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with nature."--Cover.

A final collection of essays from "Natural History" magazine includes writings on such subjects as Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America one hundred years ago.

A collection of essays and reflections by the renowned Texas naturalist.

Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter.

Traces the story of natural history as reflected by the lives, observations, and discoveries of some of the world's leading naturalists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Aristotle.

When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel around the world it did, taking Darwin to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and of course the Galapagos Islands, in a journey of discovery that lasted almost five years. Now, in Fossils, Finches and Fuegians, Richard Keynes, Darwin's great grandson, offers the first modern full-length...