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Magdalena Mountain

A Novel

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

"An elegant, eccentric novel of love, loneliness, and lepidoptera . . . Worthy company for work by other naturalist/novelists: Nabokov, Matthiessen, Kingsolver." —Kirkus ReviewsIn Magdalena Mountain, Robert Michael Pyle's first and long–awaited novel, the award–winning naturalist proves he is as at home in an imagined landscape as he is in the natural one. At the center of this story of majesty ... Read more

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"An elegant, eccentric novel of love, loneliness, and lepidoptera . . . Worthy company for work by other naturalist/novelists: Nabokov, Matthiessen, Kingsolver." —Kirkus ReviewsIn Magdalena Mountain, Robert Michael Pyle's first and long–awaited novel, the award–winning naturalist proves he is as at home in an imagined landscape as he is in the natural one. At the center of this story of majesty
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Chasing Monarchs

Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation, the received wisdom about the butterflies' long journey just didn't make sense. In the ... Read more

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Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation, the received wisdom about the butterflies' long journey just didn't make sense. In the
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Mariposa Road

The First Butterfly Big Year

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: "Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle's exuberance catching." — Seattle TimesPart road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle's journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the eight ... Read more

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An account of a cross-country adventure chasing butterflies: "Armchair travelers who love a good yarn will find Pyle's exuberance catching." — Seattle TimesPart road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle's journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the eight
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Nature Matrix

New and Selected Essays

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

Nature Matrix is a gathering of some of Robert Michael Pyle’s most significant, original, and timely expressions of a life immersed in the natural world, in all its splendor, power, and perilNature Matrix: New and Selected Essays contains sixteen pieces that encompass the philosophy, ethic, and aesthetic of Robert Michael Pyle. The essays range from Pyle’s experience as a young national park ... Read more

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Nature Matrix is a gathering of some of Robert Michael Pyle’s most significant, original, and timely expressions of a life immersed in the natural world, in all its splendor, power, and perilNature Matrix: New and Selected Essays contains sixteen pieces that encompass the philosophy, ethic, and aesthetic of Robert Michael Pyle. The essays range from Pyle’s experience as a young national park
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Where Bigfoot Walks

Crossing the Dark Divide

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

**One of America’s most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.“A unique book in the bigfoot literature . . . that understands what most lifetime bigfooters eventually come to know: that bigfooting is about the journey more than the destination.” —Cliff Barackman, field researcher and star of Animal ... Read more

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**One of America’s most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.“A unique book in the bigfoot literature . . . that understands what most lifetime bigfooters eventually come to know: that bigfooting is about the journey more than the destination.” —Cliff Barackman, field researcher and star of Animal
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Sky Time in Gray's River

Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author.Sky Time in Gray ... Read more

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An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author.Sky Time in Gray
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Wintergreen

Rambles in a Ravaged Land

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

In the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both the human community and the forest community are threatened with extinction. Virtually every acre of the hills has been logged, often repeatedly, in the past hundred years, endangering both the land and the people, leaving dying towns as well as a devastated ecosystem. Weaving vivid portraits of the place and its inhabitants—animal, plant, and ... Read more

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In the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both the human community and the forest community are threatened with extinction. Virtually every acre of the hills has been logged, often repeatedly, in the past hundred years, endangering both the land and the people, leaving dying towns as well as a devastated ecosystem. Weaving vivid portraits of the place and its inhabitants—animal, plant, and
... Read more
An Island in the Stream

Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture

by David Taylor, Susan E. Bender, Blas Falconer, Heriberto Feraudy Espino, Gabriel Horowitz, Mayra Beatriz Martinez, Margarita Mateo Palmer, Karina Pino Gallardo, Laura Ruiz Montes0, Christina Maria Garcia1, Mariana G. Serra García2, Sylvia Torti3, Scott Slovic4, Alison Hawthorne Deming6, George B. Handley7, Robert Michael Pyle8 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba’s vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ... Read more

$38.09 USD

An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba’s vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as
... Read more
Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest

by Robert Michael Pyle, Caitlin C. LaBar ...

Series series A Timber Press Field Guide
Ideal for birders, hikers, and foragers, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest is a comprehensive field guide to the region’s most common and distinctive butterflies. Profiles include preferred common name for both genus and species, conservation status, the look and distinguishing traits of each butterfly, habitat, and ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Ideal for birders, hikers, and foragers, the Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest is a comprehensive field guide to the region’s most common and distinctive butterflies. Profiles include preferred common name for both genus and species, conservation status, the look and distinguishing traits of each butterfly, habitat, and
... Read more
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Where Bigfoot Walks

Crossing the Dark Divide

by Robert Michael Pyle ...

Narrated by Adam Barr ...

Unabridged

15 hours 28 min

The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale–trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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The inspiration for the film The Dark Divide starring David Cross and Debra Messing, one of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves.Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale–trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount
... Read more

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Death in the Air

The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

Narrated by Graeme Malcolm ...

Unabridged

9 hours 30 min

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the
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The Beatles

The Biography

by Bob Spitz ...

Narrated by Alfred Molina ...

Abridged

10 hours 15 min

2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, AbridgedEven before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now.The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, AbridgedEven before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now.The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and
... Read more

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