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  • Water Ways

    A thousand miles along Britain's canals

    by Jasper Winn ...
    For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Paddle

    A long way around Ireland

    by Jasper Winn ...
    One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in bars and paddling clockwise until he got back where he started. But in the worst Irish summer in living memory the pleasures of idling among seals, fulmars and fishing boats soon gave way to heroic ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

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    The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our StarsWinner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read ... Read more

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  • Cottage Daze

    by James Ross ...
    Cottage Daze celebrates life at the cottage where the cottage is the main character, and family, friends, pets, and fellow cottagers are the supporting cast. Whether writing about cottage routine ("First Ski," "Of Mice and Men," "Cottage Guests"), cottage tasks ("Splitting Wood," "Boat Launch"), nature ("A Gathering of Loons," "The Sting," "Autumn Spell"), cottage fun ("The Cottage Duel"), or ... Read more

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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    Enriched edition. A Transcendental Journey Through Nature, Philosophy, and Reflections

    In "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," Henry David Thoreau presents a profound exploration of Nature and human introspection, as he recounts a canoe trip he undertook with his brother. Rich with lyrical prose and philosophical musings, Thoreau's narrative captures the serene beauty of the American landscape while pondering themes of solitude, transcendentalism, and the interconnection ... Read more

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  • Curious by Nature

    One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World

    The author of Strangers in the House examines nature's connection to herself and humanity in this collection of essays.Curious by Nature showcases Candace Savage's exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance between harvesting trees and allowing grizzly bears the space to roam. Along the way, she ... Read more

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  • The Cloud Forest

    A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness

    Series series Classic, Nature, Penguin
    A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In ParadisePeter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old explorers, ... Read more

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  • LISTENING POINT

    “Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new that has opened up whole realms of thought and interest. From it I have glimpsed the immensity of space and at times the grandeur of creation.“I believe that I have experienced there one of the oldest satisfactions of man; ... Read more

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  • Listening to the Savage

    River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

    by Barbara Hurd ...
    Barbara Hurd’s Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.As in Hurd’s other books, the previously unknown or the ... Read more

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  • Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies

    by David Creamer ...
    The trials and tribulations experienced while sailing two old and tired American tugboats halfway around the world. An entertaining and greatly enjoyable read. ... Read more

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  • Liverpool Docks Through Time

    by Ian Collard ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America. Liverpool has been an important port since the seventeenth century, when the city began to import West Indian sugar and Virginian tobacco, exporting ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • West Midland Canals Through Time

    Severn, Avon & Birmingham

    by Ray Shill ...
    Series series Through Time
    This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together. It is a complex history where some working waterways are approaching 250 years of existence, but where others span the distance of time with construction and modification extending right up to the present day. In some instances ... Read more

    $11.69 USD