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“stanley hedeen”

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  • Big Bone Lick

    The Cradle of American Paleontology

    by Stanley Hedeen ...
    Shawnee legend tells of a herd of huge bison rampaging through the Ohio Valley, laying waste to all in their path. To protect the tribe, a deity slew these great beasts with lightning bolts, finally chasing the last giant buffalo into exile across the Wabash River, never to trouble the Shawnee again. The source of this legend was a peculiar salt lick in present-day northern Kentucky, where giant ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Eternal Frontier

    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, "full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology" ( The Washington Post Book World).Here, "the rock star of modern science" tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America

    The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up

    by Richard J. Dewhurst ...
    A study of the substantial evidence for a former race of giants in North America and its 150-year suppression by the Smithsonian Institution• Shows how thousands of giant skeletons have been found, particularly in the Mississippi Valley, as well as the ruins of the giants’ cities• Explores 400 years of giant finds, including newspaper articles, first person accounts, state historical records, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Mannahatta

    A Natural History of New York City

    by Eric W. Sanderson ...
    What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown.Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal , New York Magazine , and San Francisco ChronicleOn September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it's difficult to imagine what he saw, but for ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King Sequoia

    The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature

    by William C. Tweed ...
    A naturist and historian for the National Parks Service offers a lively history of the giant sequoias of California and the love of nature they inspired.Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of some of the world's largest and oldest trees in a narrative that travels deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the American West, and all the way to New Zealand. Along the way, ... Read more

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  • Archeology of Mississippi

    by Calvin S. Brown ...
    This reprinting makes available again the only book of its kind to be focused upon the prehistoric Indians of Mississippi. Although written expressly for the layreader, it has continued for more than eighty years to appeal to a wide audience that ranges from professional archeologists and scholars to weekend artifact collectors.Published originally in 1926, Archeology of Mississippi details Brown ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Walden Warming

    Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

    by Richard B. Primack ...
    "An unnervingly close-to-home perspective [on] the dynamics and impact of climate change on plants, birds, and myriad other species, including us."— BooklistIn his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Powhatan Indians of Virginia

    Their Traditional Culture

    by Helen C. Rountree ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Water

    A Natural History

    by Alice Outwater ...
    An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Indian New England Before the Mayflower

    by Howard S. Russell ...
    In offering here a highly readable yet comprehensive description of New England's Indians as they lived when European settlers first met them, the author provides a well-rounded picture of the natives as neither savages nor heroes, but fellow human beings existing at a particular time and in a particular environment. He dispels once and for all the common notion of native New England as peopled by ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • House of Lost Worlds

    Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth

    by Richard Conniff ...
    This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the world. Delving into the museum’s storied and colorful past, award-winning author Richard Conniff introduces a cast of bold explorers, roughneck bone ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Red Desert

    History of a Place

    by Martin Stupich ...
    A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America's last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus