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Many people thrill at the sight of a majestic tree, and North America is full of them, from the towering California redwoods to venerable East Coast oaks that were planted when the first colonists arrived. This beautiful, original book, a most appropriate gift for anyone who finds solace in nature, is a stunning value. It provides a gorgeous photographic tour of the continent's most captivating arboreal specimens, with text on the history, botany, and lore surrounding them.

Great Smoky Mountains: Natural Wonder, National Park

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Great Smoky Mountains: Natural Wonder, National Park
Steve Kemp
Manufacturer: Tide-Mark Press
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ASIN: 1559497432

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Ridge after mountain ridge, blanketed with forest to the horizon's edge, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a unique ecosystem and one of the largest protected areas in the Eastern United States. More than 500,000 acres of tree-covered mountains span the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, creating a natural setting so appealing it has become the nation's most frequently visited national park. Great Smoky Mountains; Natural Wonder, National Park explores the ecosystem of mountain and forest, the animals that inhabit it, and the Appalachian pioneers who came here to build a new life through essays by Steve Kemp. The essays are accompanied by 150 photographs that bring the Great Smoky Mountains vividly to life. Created by Adam Jones, this extraordinary photographic collection combines grand mountaintop landscapes and intimate details of flora and fauna that together give this book an exceptional sense of place.

Yellowstone Country: The Enduring Wonder (National Geographic Society Special Publication, Series 26)

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A must-read for anyone planning to visit
The land of geysers
A beautiful book!

Yellowstone Country: The Enduring Wonder (National Geographic Society Special Publication, Series 26)
Seymour L. Fishbein
Manufacturer: National Geographic Society
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ASIN: 0870447130

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Yellowstone country is a living entity composed of a wide variety of animals.

Vast forests, two national parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, thundering waterfalls, gurgling hot springs, and more than two-thirds of the world's active geysers lie within one of the most intact ecosystems in the lower 48. Author Seymour L. Fishbein and photographer Raymond Gehman delve into the controversies of the region such as swelling elk herds, grizzly bears that encroach on campsites, logging, mineral exploration, and ranchers' fears of the spread of disease from bison to livestock. Park, forest, and refuge management strive to balance multiple use and preservation in the hope that the ecosystem will remain as vital and as wild as it is today.

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A must-read for anyone planning to visit.......2006-11-04

I had the opportunity to visit Yellowstone National Park this summer and decided to pick up a few guidebooks from my local library. This book is marvelous. It discusses in detail the ecology and history of Yellowstone and its natural resources. The photographs are of the caliber you'd expect from a National Geographic publication.

The land of geysers.......2000-06-27

A beautiful book. Get insight into the delicate ecosystem, the people and the wildlife in this amazing natural wonder.

A beautiful book!.......2000-06-27

Another wonderful book from National geographic. Get insight into the world's nest natural geysers. A must have for people planning to visit the beautiful park.

The Florida Keys: The Natural Wonders of an Island Paradise

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The Florida Keys: The Natural Wonders of an Island Paradise
Jeff Ripple
Manufacturer: Voyageur Press (MN)
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ASIN: 0896582620

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Those who think of the Florida Keys as miles of sandy beaches have much to learn about our southern Florida archipelago.

Each year, about four million people visit the Florida Keys, a 150-mile chain of tropical islands known for its diving, seagrass beds, mysterious mangrove forests, lush hardwood hammocks, rocky pinelands, and both fresh and saltwater wetlands (but not miles of sandy beaches).

The Florida Keys explores the extraordinary beauty of this ecological treasure in stunning color photos as well as threats of over-development and pollution. Chapter topics include formation of the area, geology, impact of climate, ocean currents and hurricanes, living things in each ecosystem, and human impact.

Also recommended: Florida: The Natural Wonders, The Florida Everglades, Sanibel Island, Sea Turtles, Alligators & Crocodiles.

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Excellent.......2003-07-28

Beautiful pictures. Interesting commentary. Obviously written by people who truly know and love nature, and who are on intimately familiar terms with the peculiar environments of the Florida Keys.

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Natural Wonders of North America
American Automobile Assoc.
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517135604
Release Date: 1994-11-13

Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness

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A balanced history and a wonderful read
Readers with affection for Yellowstone will find these early encounters riveting.
Searching for Yellowstone
Yellowstone 101
Best book about Yellowstone NP so far

Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
Paul Schullery
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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ASIN: 0395841747

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In 1997 Yellowstone celebrated its 125th anniversary as a national park, the keystone in the federal system of reserved and protected places. The celebration was somewhat marred by debates over wolf reintroduction, road improvement, resort building, and "bioprospecting," the search for economically useful plant materials. Paul Schullery, a longtime resident and student of the park, tells us that such debates are not new. In his deeply personal yet sweeping history of Yellowstone, he shows that the place known from the start as "Wonderland" has always been the subject of pro- and anti-development forces, has always been seen through sometimes bitterly contrasting points of view. With balance and grace, Schullery weaves his narrative through countless such arguments, noting that "Today's parks, for all the press of humanity lined up to get in, still seem short of friends, or at least lacking in just the right combination of friends to ensure adequate budgets and reasonable protection." His fine book may help widen Yellowstone's circle of champions.

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Combining exhaustive research with twenty-five years of experience at Yellowstone, Paul Schullery paints a dramatically new picture of Yellowstone park. He shows how Yellowstone's "discovery" by whites followed 10,000 years of occupation and use by native Americans. The search for Yellowstone is as vital and unpredictable today as it was in 1872, and Paul Schullery makes an urgent, eloquent, and startlingly practical case for ensuring that Yellowstone lasts another 125 years.

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A balanced history and a wonderful read.......2007-07-03

This book presents itself as a history of Yellowstone. However, it's also an extended reflection on the park by someone who loves it dearly, someone who has worked for the National Park Service in Yellowstone for years and is very knowledgeable about the park. Schullery writes very well, and the book is a pleasure to read.

The most striking characteristic of this book, in comparison with others, is how remarkably even-handed it is. Schullery takes controversial issues such as fire management, elk shooting, wolf reintroduction, and brucellosis-infected bison and presents them in an even-handed way, sympathetic to both sides. He recognizes that most people go to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon, eat, and go shopping; that's not what he likes to do, but he isn't critical. Yet, somehow, he manages to cock an eyebrow here and there and make you rethink a position that you had previously held quite firmly.

This would be a great book to read before a visit to Yellowstone, or as something to put in your pack while you're there. Highly recommended.

Readers with affection for Yellowstone will find these early encounters riveting........2006-11-07

Combine history, scholarship, and a survey of nature and ecological issues and you have an uncommon history of Yellowstone that examines the political and cultural influences on the park's development and management over the decades. SEARCHING FOR YELLOWSTONE: ECOLOGY AND WONDER IN THE LAST WILDERNESS offers up chapters packed with true stories of environmental encounters and wonders. Readers with affection for Yellowstone will find these early encounters riveting.

Diane C. Donovan
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Searching for Yellowstone.......2006-04-10

This is a review of Yellowstone history from a system-wide and ecological perspective. It is well written and provides a great deal of factual information. It presents well thought out conclusions. It is balanced; not overly slanted toward the National Park Service, but not overly critical. The book is extremely well researched. The stories of historical characters and events add much to the book. The universe of Yellowstone experts hold several differing views on the proper wildlife numbers that should be allowed in Yellowstone. Schullery fits into the group that favors using historical stocking as a baseline. Those inclined to an agronomy baseline will question some of the conclusions drawn. One of the other reviewers called this book an "easy pre-read." I disagree; it is not difficult to read, but it does deserve study.

Yellowstone 101.......2001-08-01

`Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in knowing the "Yellowstone story" at a deeper level than the interpretive signs or tourist pamphlets. This would be excellent (and easy) "pre-reading" for anyone contemplating a first trip to Yellowstone....but it is also a fascinating and sometimes surprising eye-opener for someone (like me) who was somewhat familiar with Yellowstone already. From the perspective only a former Yellowstone employee and prolific writer/researcher could bring, Schullery persuasively argues-not unlike the "new western historians" in their iconoclastic reassessment of the American west and its history)-that Yellowstone is not so much a place as a process...a process of how we as Americans define a national park. Schullery's measured tour through this process provides a sobering reminder to inveterate tree-huggers like me that a national park is not a wilderness area, as much as I might like it to be in terms of "hands off" preservation. Schullery's approach is matter-of-fact, methodically researched (I actually enjoyed reading the copious "notes" section separately after having finished the book) and myth-busting at times (e.g. that surprisingly, the total number of developed acres in Yellowstone has actually decreased during the last 40 years rather than increased). He doesn't even spare himself, needling enthusiastic fly-fishers like himself with the sad-but-true fact that if we treated the ungulates of Yellowstone the same way fishermen do a Yellowstone trout (which was probably introduced in the first place rather than native), we would be cited for abusing the wildlife. A very readable and important book.

Best book about Yellowstone NP so far.......2001-03-22

I read this book in a week and was quite impressed with the breadth of history covered in 260 something pages, not counting notes. I was glad to see that this historical account began with an "anthropological" perspective by recounting the known presence of Native American tribes prior to the EuroAmerican "discovery" of the place and the manner in which they were extricated from the ecosystem. I was also impressed with the historical information relating the misuse, management practices and policies that affected the life of the park once it was established and what changes have been implemented in recent years. The notes following the text were very helpful in leading me to other books and records that I would like to examine. A fine book that I purchased after reading the library copy!

Natural Wonders of Massachusetts: A Guide to Parks, Preserves & Wild Places (Natural Wonders Of...)

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Natural Wonders of Massachusetts: A Guide to Parks, Preserves & Wild Places (Natural Wonders Of...)
Nancy Prajzner
Manufacturer: Country Roads Press
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Great for hikers, outdoor enthusiasts and families with children. Includes Cape Cod.

Florida: The Natural Wonders (Pictorial Discovery Guides (Paperback))

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A very beautiful book about the Florida you don't know

Florida: The Natural Wonders (Pictorial Discovery Guides (Paperback))
Jeff Ripple
Manufacturer: Voyageur Press (MN)
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ASIN: 0896584240

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You're probably aware of Florida's world famous natural wonders like its coastline, the Everglades, and its colorful coral reefs. But did you know, that Florida also houses an abundance of less publicized natural delights including one of the largest underwater cave systems in the continental U.S., a type of prairie found nowhere else in the U.S., and an ancient forest system perched on prehistoric dunes?

In Florida: The Natural Wonders, Jeff Ripple leads readers on an exploration of the entire state, acquainting them with the geology, ecosystems, wildlife, and weather, while explaining how to help protect Florida's natural treasures for future generations to enjoy. His spectacular color photographs bring readers face-to-face with wild creatures and breathtaking vistas, and capture the spirit of Florida as never before.

Also recommended: The Florida Keys: The Natural Wonders of an Island Paradise, The Florida Everglades, Sanibel Island, Sea Turtles, Alligators & Crocodiles.

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A very beautiful book about the Florida you don't know.......2003-10-07

When someone says the word "Florida", most of us think of sandy beaches, Disney World and the other theme parks, palm trees, and the Everglades. Did you know Florida has caves where you can walk about, and see beautiful stalactites and stalagmites? Did you think Florida had small waterfalls and high sand ridges, or that it is one of the largest subtropical forests in the world, or that it was part of Africa long ago? Florida also has many types of life zones, including tropical forest, savannah, dry canebrakes, swamps, and the largest freshwater springs anywhere. These and many other fascinating, little known facts, and places, are shown in this book.

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Valuable advice for the visitor who seeks to observe and enjoy this spectacular state.

Natural Wonders of Idaho (Natural Wonders Of...)

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Natural Wonders of Idaho (Natural Wonders Of...)
Bill London , and Charlie Powell
Manufacturer: Country Roads Press
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Idaho is a state of natural wonders--this guide spans them all.

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This book is concerned with the prediction of thermodynamic and transport properties of gases and liquids. The prediction of such properties is essential for the solution of many problems encountered in chemical and process engineering as well as in other areas of science and technology. The book aims to present the best of those modern methods which are capable of practical application. It begins with basic scientific principles and formal results which are subsequently developed into practical methods of prediction. Numerous examples, supported by a suite of computer programmes, illustrate applications of the methods. The book is aimed primarily at the student market (for both undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses) but it will also be useful for those engaged in research and for chemical and process engineering professionals.

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Dramatic Stories Against the Odds.......2000-05-12

This book (and two others like it - Glorious Defiance and Seize and Hold) is a good book for introductions to several battles (some a bit obscure) with a similar theme. At All Costs covers battles where a desperate force needs to attack or hold an objective which against seemingly impossible odds in a "ours in not to reason why, ours is but to do and die" battle. This book covers the following battles:

Minden, 1759 - Balaclava, 1854 - Delhi, 1857 - Little Round Top, 1863 - Mars-la-Tour/St-Privat, 1870 - Gordon Relief Expedition, 1884-5 - Arras, 1940 - Longstop Hill, Tunisia, 1943 - The Nijmegen Bridges, 1944 - Air Assault on Corregidor, 1945 - Goose Green, 1982

Each battle is covered in what amounts to an essay on the topic and therefore does not cover them in too much detail, hence only three stars. I use them when I want to read about a battle in one sitting because they average about 20 pages each. But they usually spark an interest to find more books on the battles covered so as to absorb more details about that particular battle and for that they are excellent.

Overall, this is a good book for those interested in learning about dramatic battles but don't want to get bogged down in minute details.

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At All Costs! Stories of Impossible Victories
Bryan, Illustrated by Black and White Photos and Maps Perrett
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORYKK0

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