Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home
de William Fiennes(Ed. Random House Trade Paperbacks) Isbn : 0375758577
12.3 €
“Fiennes’ awestruck observations about America and her natural wonders are gifts.” —USA Today“An adventure that is out-and-out sublime in its language, its sights and sounds, and its meditations.” —The Seattle Times“[Fiennes] is wholehearted without quite taking himself seriously, and that is one of the qualities of this gifted author. He is lyrical, wry. . . . What greatly helps is prose so winged and acute that . . . it establishes the mystical connection it aims for.” —The New York Times“Lucid, beautiful . . . Notions of home, homesickness and nostalgia are not often discussed in travel books, yet Fiennes explores them at length in passages that are always fascinating for their combination of scientific anecdote and emoti...

American Goldfinch
de A.L.A. Middleton(Ed. Stackpole Books) Isbn : 0811726878
14.77 €
170 color photos 7 x 9 . Complete description of life cycle and activities in the wild. Brilliant, hard-to-capture images from leading nature photographers Straightforward, concise text by an expert Praise for Black-capped Chickadee and Northern Cardinal "This series will find a welcome place in bird-watching's storehouse of literature." --Pete Dunne "Read these books and you will be prepared to observe much more than the casual observer ever notices afield." --Howard Robinson, American Bird Watcher "Even those intimately familiar with the birds will find a great deal of information here, and those who have only a passing acquaintance will find these books a valuable resource and a pleasure to read. The photographs . . . are uniformly excellent, and many of them are stunning." --Eirik...

Birdhouses: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building Attractive Homes for Your Feathered Friends
de John Kelsey(Ed. PRC Publishing.) Isbn : 1856486494
17.06 €
#8220 ; The designs are not only attractive but also include practical features like openings for cleaning and predator-proof designs....The best birdhouse title to come along in some time, this is recommended for all public libraries. #8221 ; #8212 ; Library Journal. #8220 ; A step-by-step guide to building 14 nest box projects, suitable for the beginner and more experienced woodworker. #8221 ; #8212 ; Woodshop News.

Mar: A Glimpse into the Natural Life of a Bird
de Louise de Kirilene Lawrence(Ed. Natural Heritage Books) Isbn : 0920474403
9.44 €
"Writing with uncanny skill, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence leads us gently into the world of birds. Her perception, intuition and experience give her insights that she here freely shares with us all. "I knew this remarkable lady for years, and had previously read her Mar, but on re-reading it, I was struck with the sensitive, magical way she reveals the behaviour of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. "At her doorstep, at almost everyone's doorstep, there is a wondrous, beautiful world, if we will only be patient and observant. In Mar, Mrs. Lawrence shows us the way. "Naturalists, birders, aspiring ornithologists, scientists, all should take time to read Mar." - Robert W. Nero, Author of The Great Gray Owl and Redwings "Mar is a glimpse into the natural life of a woodpecker -- a yellow-bellied sapsuc...

Birds of the Sea, Shore, and Tundra
de Theodore Cross(Ed. Grove Pr) Isbn : 1555843859
61.76 €
"Whether one's career is law, business, publishing or hauling up the flag of revolution, watching, studying and photographing birds are superb ways of keeping one's mind off one's own mortality and staying very much alive." Economist-attorney-publisher Cross ( Black Capitalism ) marks 15 years of birdwatching in the High Arctic, the Central Pacific and the Gulf Coast in this appealing collection of some 120 of his color photographs of birds. Snowy egrets with fantastically flexible necks bend them backward to groom themselves; wild-eyed, fiercely tufted reddishsic egrets vigilantly guard their nests. A little tern shelters an even smaller, down-bedecked fledgling on a rocky shore; a fearsomely large snowy owl hovers over its young. Cross evokes a natural world of astounding variety and bea...

Darwin's Audubon: Science And The Liberal Imagination
de Gerald Weissmann(Ed. Basic Books) Isbn : 0306459817
27.5 €
"Weissmann has contributed elegantly to the revival of the popular scientific essay as a staple of contemporary literary expression."

Eagles: Masters of the Sky
de Rebecca L. Grambo(Ed. Voyageur Press (MN)) Isbn : 0896583422
23.7 €
"Voyageur Press is known for its well-produced coffee-table books on various groups of animals, and this new effort on the largest of the birds of prey is a worthy addition to the program. . . . An extensive bibliography is as eclectic as the text and will help make this a popular addition to the library."

Eagles: Masters of the Sky
de (Ed. Swan Hill Press) Isbn : 1853109827
20.01 €
"Voyageur Press is known for its well-produced coffee-table books on various groups of animals, and this new effort on the largest of the birds of prey is a worthy addition to the program. . . . An extensive bibliography is as eclectic as the text and will help make this a popular addition to the library."

Stars
de James B. Kaler(Ed. Scientific American Library) Isbn : 0716760312
18.96 €
"Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are...." Wonder no more. Astronomer James Kaler has written a lucid, beautifully illustrated guide to the most obvious ingredient of the universe. "To know ourselves, we must know the stars"--how they are created, what makes them shine, their distances, and their fates. To say "we are stardust" is cold scientific truth: every element in our bodies (and our planet) except the hydrogen was made inside a star and thrown into space by a supernova explosion five billion years ago or more. Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" describes how he became "tired and sick" of "charts and diagrams" and left to "look up in perfect silence at the stars." Kaler refutes Whitman by example as he combines scientific fact with poetic exp...

Stars
de James B. Kaler(Ed. Scientific American Library) Isbn : 0716750333
31.3 €
"Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are...." Wonder no more. Astronomer James Kaler has written a lucid, beautifully illustrated guide to the most obvious ingredient of the universe. "To know ourselves, we must know the stars"--how they are created, what makes them shine, their distances, and their fates. To say "we are stardust" is cold scientific truth: every element in our bodies (and our planet) except the hydrogen was made inside a star and thrown into space by a supernova explosion five billion years ago or more. Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" describes how he became "tired and sick" of "charts and diagrams" and left to "look up in perfect silence at the stars." Kaler refutes Whitman by example as he combines scientific fact with poetic exp...