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The Lilliput Press
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[2001]
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1 online resource (270 pages)
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"Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland's second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O'Sullivan's riverine narrative embraces legend and song, literature and anecdote, viewing Irish history through the prism of the waterway: from the early tribal kingdoms of the Celts, to the Vikings and Normans who made passage up the estuary, leaving a legacy of castles,...
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A scientific expedition into unknown parts of the Caribbean to study the tectonic plates of the region answers the intriguing question: Is there a language of fish? Gilles Fonteneau, a longtime colleague of the legendary Jacques Cousteau's Calypso team, fulfilled a lifelong dream when in 2001 he launched his own exploration, aboard the 45-foot catamaran Prince de Vendee, into the silent world of the sea. Little did he know when he set out that his...
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Islands, with their breathtaking beauty and unique ecosystems, have long been coveted as idyllic havens and coveted destinations for travelers seeking respite from the world's hustle and bustle. These pristine environments, often characterized by crystal-clear waters, lush forests, and vibrant marine life, have been cherished as jewels of nature. However, beneath their stunning exteriors, many islands grapple with a sobering reality—rising
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In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands and a valley that is home to farmers, ranchers, trappers and habitat to innumerable creatures big and small. Over four days in late September 2015,...
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To Everything a Season is a beautifully crafted personal and reflective account of many years of the changing seasons, from autumn to autumn, in and around a village on the edge of the Cambridge Fenland. It is an uplifting reflection about change: what was, what is, what will be.
It is about the miracle of the rich gift of life. It is also about death, loss, and the rebirth of the old into something rich and strange.
But it is also a book suffused...
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Did you know that plants and animals react to change similar to humans? In this book, you will read about how plants and animals behave as a result to environmental changes. Read about situations where they go through behavioral and structural adaptations. Some of these adaptations even affected the genetic structure of plants and animals! Isn't that amazing?
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Photojournalists Bob and Liz Randall spent two years exploring Florida's ancient and enchanting Ocklawaha River. Their journey provides an inside look at the rich recreational resources of the river, its wildlife and the people, past and present, who contributed to its history and welfare. Along the way, they met artists, environmentalists, captains, law enforcement officials, conservationists, filmmakers, historians and local descendants whose lives...
28) Fuego voraz, la guerra global contra los incendios forestales y el renacimiento de la naturaleza
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¡Descubre la obra revolucionaria que te sumerge en el fascinante mundo de los incendios forestales y la lucha global para proteger nuestros ecosistemas! "Fuego Voraz: La Guerra Global contra los Incendios Forestales y el Renacimiento de la Naturaleza" es un libro cautivador que te llevará a través de un viaje apasionante lleno de emociones y descubrimientos.
En esta obra maestra, el autor te sumergirá en la realidad apremiante de los incendios...
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Si usted decide leer este libro este año, y se tarda, por ejemplo, un día, ese día habrán muerto 1094 personas en el mundo por la crisis climática. Pero si lo lee el año entrante habrán muerto muchas más. ¿Cuántas? Haga el cálculo: El cambio climático provoca ya 400.000 muertes cada año, pero la actual economía intensiva en carbono está relacionada con 4.5 millones de muertes anuales en todo el mundo. Este libro es sobre el periodo...
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In a world where the future is uncertain, food and water will turn out to be a scarce commodity. Foraging will become, for some, a way of life, and it will be their only chance of survival when facing the great outdoors. Foraging is a skill that has become forgotten, and even though it was used by our ancestors on a daily basis, today, we mainly hear about it in movies or survival TV shows.
I'm glad to see that this subject is still alive among the...
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Twelve months of visits to a mountain lake tells more than twelve tales. The solitude found during a Wednesday in the winter is completely different from the chaos found on a Saturday in the summer. The seasons make one set of changes. We make the other. The combination produces a much more interesting set of experiences that can't be revealed in one visit or in a page of some guidebook. Merritt Lake hides on the east side of the Cascade Mountains,...
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The legendary, half-artificial, half-natural geological formation over 20,000 years old, located somewhere on the Slovak-Polish border. Known to local residents, it was discovered in 1944 at the end of the Slovak National Uprising by a scholar and a soldier, who had to then flee from communists to France and then to the United States, where he revealed his find to the world in 1960s. What is the Mooncave? An extraordinary creation of Nature? The remnant...
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Ce petit livre propose une exploration du royaume insolite de ces vivants méconnus avec lesquels nous partageons notre vie depuis toujours. On y découvre un éventail de thèmes fondamentaux à travers 60 courts textes illustrés entièrement en couleur, qui peuvent se lire dans l'ordre ou le désordre.
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On a clear, cold morning in January 1998, in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, a massive avalanche buried six experienced back-country skiers. They didn't have a chance. Thus began the worst day for avalanche deaths in Canadian history and one of the most tragic in North America. This book is the biography of a deadly avalanche, detailing how a combination of factors steep, open terrain, an unstable winter snow pack primed to...
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On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them.
If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future?
An epic exploration of our relationship with this country, Landscapes of Our Hearts takes us from the Great Barrier Reef to the Central Desert, the High Country to Canberra's Limestone Plains....
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As featured in the documentary, DamNation (Patagonia, 2014). During his first summer, Spencer built a sheltered viewing platform, a place to sit with Sis and his notebook, and observe the denizens of the pool for months, and, finally, years on end. Shortly before setting up camp during his first season, Spencer cut the points off the hooks of all his steelhead flies, freeing himself to see more deeply the beauty of his surroundings. As the predatory...
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Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river's torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain's Mississippi-or maybe...
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Burning coal to make energy to run machines has been the world's ugly secret for centuries. The truth is now known: Coal combustion is killing the planet. The scary thing is we all know that but nothing changes; more and more CO2 each year joins the greenhouse gas gang to raise Earth's temperature slowly but inexorably. We even go so far as to call coal "clean" creating the world's biggest oxymoron. This book goes to the heart of the matter---where...
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The story of the Santee is, in fact, the story of a major part of the Carolinas east of the Appalachians, for the river drains an immense area of both states from the mountains to the ocean. Savage also describes fully the change-over from the agricultural Old South to the industrial New South, a change sparked largely by the hydroelectric power of the Santee.
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