Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home
de William Fiennes(Ed. Random House) Isbn : 0375507299
23.7 €
“William Fiennes is a magician with language, a narrative genius, and one of the keenest and most lucid observers of birds -- and American culture, and human nature -- that I’ve read. This book is a shout-out-loud treasure.” -- Rick Bass, author of Colter“One page and I was hooked. Soon I was reading with a pen in hand, just to underline all the seamless transitions, the fresh surprising similes, the very exact and precise observations. Fiennes is a very fine writer and this book is pure delight.” -- Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang“Any story of migration is also an account of homecoming, and few are more eloquent or precise than this one. It serves as a good reminder that the world is a big place filled with small, particular, and i...

Sealife
de Geoffrey Waller(Ed. Smithsonian Books) Isbn : 1560986336
52.26 €
“Very occasionally there comes to a reviewer a book as comprehensive in its range, as encyclopedic in its detail, as soundly based on scientific research and as profusely illustrated as SeaLife.”—Seafarer“Edited by a research fellow at the University of London, this comprehensive treatise on marine biology is written for the nonscientist with a serious interest in the subject and could also serve as a college text. Introductory sections summarize oceanographic voyages and explorations, the origin of life in the sea, the physical and chemical nature of the oceans, and water movement and ocean circulation. A description of marine ecological zones and animal distribution among them precedes detailed chapters on marine vertebrates and invertebrates, marine reptiles, sea...

Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder
de David Gessner(Ed. Ballantine Books) Isbn : 0345450167
15.2 €
“Thrilling . . . Memorable . . . Among the classics of American nature writing.”–The Boston Globe “ENGROSSING . . . AN AUTHOR WHO’S BOTH SENSUOUS AND LYRICAL WHILE ALSO BEING PRISTINELY CONCISE.”–Rocky Mountain News

Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder
de David Gessner(Ed. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Isbn : 1565122542
22.76 €
“Thrilling . . . Memorable . . . Among the classics of American nature writing.”–The Boston Globe “ENGROSSING . . . AN AUTHOR WHO’S BOTH SENSUOUS AND LYRICAL WHILE ALSO BEING PRISTINELY CONCISE.”–Rocky Mountain News

John James Audubon: The Making of an American
de Richard Rhodes(Ed. Vintage) Isbn : 037571393X
19.96 €
“Rhodes has managed to do for Audubon what Audubon did for birds. . . in this splendid biography Rhodes has produced nothing less than a portrait of the United States in its formative years.” –The New York Times Book Review “Panoramic yet intensely detailed. . . .[Rhodes] has conveyed the thrust of his subject’s imagination and the force of his movement as if painting Audubon from life.” – San Francisco Chronicle “Rhodes has given us the most three-dimensional portrait yet of Audubon the man.” —The Washington Post Book World“More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era. . . . Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review

On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
de Alan Tennant(Ed. Knopf) Isbn : 0375415513
23.76 €
“On the Wing reads like an avian version of On the Road...Tennant is a dreamer, a watcher, and a chaser.” —Dallas Morning News“Reads as if Hunter S. Thompson decided to pursue a passion for endangered birds. . . . Tennant is a gifted naturalist.” —Science News“Moves with the action of a four star movie. . . . [On the Wing] will keep you rapt to the very end.” —Natural History“On the Wing reveals the true nature of our planet. Tennant's parable encourages us to find the strength and courage to place ourselves in the context of the world as it really is.” —The New York Times Book Review“Tennant buckles us into a rattletrap Cessna flown by a septuagenarian stunt pilot and flings us aloft to share an obsessive, madca...

On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
de Alan Tennant(Ed. Simon Schuster Audio) Isbn : 0743529707
24.7 €
“On the Wing reads like an avian version of On the Road...Tennant is a dreamer, a watcher, and a chaser.” —Dallas Morning News“Reads as if Hunter S. Thompson decided to pursue a passion for endangered birds. . . . Tennant is a gifted naturalist.” —Science News“Moves with the action of a four star movie. . . . [On the Wing] will keep you rapt to the very end.” —Natural History“On the Wing reveals the true nature of our planet. Tennant's parable encourages us to find the strength and courage to place ourselves in the context of the world as it really is.” —The New York Times Book Review“Tennant buckles us into a rattletrap Cessna flown by a septuagenarian stunt pilot and flings us aloft to share an obsessive, madca...

On the Wing: To The Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
de Alan Tennant(Ed. Simon Schuster Audio) Isbn : 0743529715
28.46 €
“On the Wing reads like an avian version of On the Road...Tennant is a dreamer, a watcher, and a chaser.” —Dallas Morning News“Reads as if Hunter S. Thompson decided to pursue a passion for endangered birds. . . . Tennant is a gifted naturalist.” —Science News“Moves with the action of a four star movie. . . . [On the Wing] will keep you rapt to the very end.” —Natural History“On the Wing reveals the true nature of our planet. Tennant's parable encourages us to find the strength and courage to place ourselves in the context of the world as it really is.” —The New York Times Book Review“Tennant buckles us into a rattletrap Cessna flown by a septuagenarian stunt pilot and flings us aloft to share an obsessive, madca...

On The Wing: To The Edge Of The Earth With The Peregrine Falcon
de Alan Tennant(Ed. Wheeler Publishing) Isbn : 1587248980
29.4 €
“On the Wing reads like an avian version of On the Road...Tennant is a dreamer, a watcher, and a chaser.” —Dallas Morning News“Reads as if Hunter S. Thompson decided to pursue a passion for endangered birds. . . . Tennant is a gifted naturalist.” —Science News“Moves with the action of a four star movie. . . . [On the Wing] will keep you rapt to the very end.” —Natural History“On the Wing reveals the true nature of our planet. Tennant's parable encourages us to find the strength and courage to place ourselves in the context of the world as it really is.” —The New York Times Book Review“Tennant buckles us into a rattletrap Cessna flown by a septuagenarian stunt pilot and flings us aloft to share an obsessive, madca...

On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
de Alan Tennant(Ed. Anchor) Isbn : 1400031826
16.15 €
“On the Wing reads like an avian version of On the Road...Tennant is a dreamer, a watcher, and a chaser.” —Dallas Morning News“Reads as if Hunter S. Thompson decided to pursue a passion for endangered birds. . . . Tennant is a gifted naturalist.” —Science News“Moves with the action of a four star movie. . . . [On the Wing] will keep you rapt to the very end.” —Natural History“On the Wing reveals the true nature of our planet. Tennant's parable encourages us to find the strength and courage to place ourselves in the context of the world as it really is.” —The New York Times Book Review“Tennant buckles us into a rattletrap Cessna flown by a septuagenarian stunt pilot and flings us aloft to share an obsessive, madca...