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A Desert Bestiary
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Author : Gregory McNamee
language : en
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Release Date : 1996
A Desert Bestiary written by Gregory McNamee and has been published by Big Earth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays on desert animals.
North Wind And The Sun
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Author : Gregory McNamee
language : en
Publisher: Daimon
Release Date : 2004
North Wind And The Sun written by Gregory McNamee and has been published by Daimon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fables categories.
For 2,500 years, adults and children alike have been listening to the stories of Aesop. Originating in the folk wisdom of rural Asia Minor, these popular fables have been retold, repurposed, and altered over the centuries; in the process, they have sometimes been changed so much that they bear little resemblance to their simple forebears, which ask their listeners and readers to think for themselves, to supply their own conclusions. In this collection, Gregory McNamee draws on the Greek originals to provide Aesop's fables in a form that Aesop himself might recognise -- ones in which fleas and foxes converse, people sometimes learn from their errors, and things are not always what they seem.
Saguaros
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Author : Mark Klett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Saguaros written by Mark Klett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Photography categories.
Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of the American West, in particular the beauties of the Sonoran landscape--a desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Along with coyotes and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of this region. Klett's portraits of these giant desert plants are straightforward and frontal. Klett is known for teasing out the implications of man's presence in the environment: here, vital young saguaros, middle-aged contenders with gunshot wounds and wizened elders are treated as worthy inhabitants. This beautifully produced volume, featuring 40 deluxe tritone images, presents a selection of Klett's most evocative portraits with an essay by acclaimed writer Gregory McNamee.
Gila
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Author : Gregory McNamee
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2012-10-15
Gila written by Gregory McNamee and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Science categories.
For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West’s great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices. This richly documented cautionary tale narrates the Gila’s natural and human history. Now updated, McNamee’s study traces recent efforts to resuscitate portions of this important riparian corridor.
Blue Mountains Far Away
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Author : Gregory McNamee
language : en
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Release Date : 2000
Blue Mountains Far Away written by Gregory McNamee and has been published by Globe Pequot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Natural history categories.
To live in the vast American Southwest is to understand that you cannot find a landscape that is not bordered, somewhere, by a blue fringe of mountains. Hence the title of this superb collection of 13 essays that wander the landscape those mountains define.
Encyclopedia Of Deserts
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Author : Michael A. Mares
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2017-01-19
Encyclopedia Of Deserts written by Michael A. Mares and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-19 with Nature categories.
Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries treat subjects ranging from desert survival to the way deserts are formed. Topics include biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history. The thirty-seven contributors, including volume editor Michael A. Mares, have had extensive careers in deserts research, encompassing all of the world’s arid and semiarid regions. The Encyclopedia opens with a subject list by topic, an organizational guide that helps the reader grasp interrelationships and complexities in desert systems. Each entry concludes with cross-references to other entries in the volume, inviting the reader to embark on a personal expedition into fascinating, previously unknown terrain. In addition a list of important readings facilitates in-depth study of each topic. An exhaustive index permits quick access to places, topics, and taxonomic listings of all plants and animals discussed. More than one hundred photographs, drawings, and maps enhance our appreciation of the remarkable life, landforms, history, and challenges of the world’s arid land.
Atlas Of The World S Deserts
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Author : Nathaniel Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Atlas Of The World S Deserts written by Nathaniel Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Reference categories.
The Atlas of the World's Deserts examines the hostile and extreme environments that characterize deserts, and is divided into chapters that concentrate on specific aspects of a desert's geology, life forms, history, and future. For more information including sample pages, visit the Atlas of the World's Deserts web site. Also includes 160 color maps and photos.
A California Bestiary
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Heyday
Release Date : 2010
A California Bestiary written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Heyday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Inspired by medieval bestiaries, a creative survey of the author and illustrator's magical beasts imagines the characteristics and illusory properties of various fantastical native California creatures, from the bluebelly lizard and the California condor to the elephant seal and the tule elk, in a volume created in partnership with the Oakland Zoo.
The Desert Reader
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Author : Gregory McNamee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Desert Reader written by Gregory McNamee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Deserts categories.
First published in 1995 as 'The Sierra Club Desert Reader', this wide-ranging anthology is now published only by the University of New Mexico Press. Represented in this global selection are poets from ancient China (translated by Ezra Pound), Egyptian inscriptions, the logs of Captain Cook, and the chilling fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the lore of native peoples from around the world. Also included are writings from many genres by, among others, Herodotus, Marco Polo, Shelley, Twain, Saint-Exupery, T E Lawrence, Chatwin, and Borges.
Aelian S On The Nature Of Animals
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Author : Gregory McNamee
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-31
Aelian S On The Nature Of Animals written by Gregory McNamee and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Nature categories.
Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian. He was born sometime between A.D. 165 and 170 in the hill town of Praeneste, what is now Palestrina, about twenty-five miles from Rome, Italy. He grew up speaking that town’s version of Latin, a dialect that other speakers of the language seem to have found curious, but—somewhat unusually for his generation, though not for Romans of earlier times—he preferred to communicate in Greek. Trained by a sophist named Pausanias of Caesarea, Aelian was known in his time for a work called Indictment of the Effeminate, an attack on the recently deceased emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who was nasty even by the standards of Imperial Rome. He was also fond of making almanac-like collections, only fragments of which survive, devoted to odd topics such as manifestations of the divine and the workings of the supernatural. His De Natura Animalium (On the Nature of Animals) has a similar patchwork quality, but it was esteemed enough in his time to survive more or less whole, and it is about all that we know of Aelian’s work today. A mostly randomly ordered collection of stories that he found interesting enough to relate about animals—whether or not he believed them—Aelian’s book constitutes an early encyclopedia of animal behavior, affording unparalleled insight into what ancient Romans knew about and thought about animals—and, of particular interest to modern scholars, about animal minds. If the science is sometimes sketchy, the facts often fanciful, and the history sometimes suspect, it is clear enough that Aelian had a fine time assembling the material, which can be said, in the most general terms, to support the notion of a kind of intelligence in nature and that extends human qualities, for good and bad, to animals. His stories, which extend across the known world of Aelian’s time, tend to be brief and to the point, and many return to a trenchant question: If animals can respect their elders and live honorably within their own tribes, why must humans be so appallingly awful? Aelian is as brisk, as entertaining, and as scholarly a writer as Pliny, the much better known Roman natural historian. That he is not better known is simply an accident: he has not been widely translated into English, or indeed any European language. This selection from his work will introduce readers to a lively mind and a witty writer who has much to tell us.