With one-third of known species being threatened with extinction, wildlife conservations are some of the most important heroes on the planet, and Wildlife Heroes profiles the work of 40 of the leading conservationists and the animals and causes they are committed to saving, such…
Profiles the work of forty of the leading conservationists and the animals and causes they are committed to saving, including Belinda Low, Doublas Hamilton, Karen Eckert, and S.T. Wong.
This is a historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history. Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from the nation's most influential racist to the greatest conservationist…
This is a historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history.
This is a historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history. Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from the nation's most influential racist to the greatest conservationist…
This is a historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history.
"Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from "the nation's most influential racist" to "the greatest conservationist that ever lived." His life illuminates early twentieth-century America as it was heading toward the American Century, and his legacy is still very much wi…
"Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from 'the nation's most influential racist' to 'the greatest conservationist that ever lived.' His life illuminates early twentieth-century America as it was heading toward the American Century, and his legacy is still very much wi…
Seeing things whole: the essential John Wesley Powell
by DeBuys, William, Powell, John Wesley, Powell, John Wesley, Naturwissenschafter, Geologe, Ethnologe, USA, Powell, John Wesley, Scientifique, Géologue, Ethnologue, Etats-Unis, Powell, John Wesley, Scientist, Geologist, Ethnologist, United States
fromShearwater Book
"This is a superb selection of the most important writings of the great American explorer, scientist, and conservationist. Powell's name has often been evoked over the past century, but few people have had access to the full range of his vigorous prose. Now deBuys has given us a…
John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder. His work and life reveal an enduringly valuable way of thinkin…
When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War he…
"Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise the alarm about deforestation and desertification and by findin…
"Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise the alarm about deforestation and desertification and by findin…
A biography of pioneering environmentalist Richard St. Barbe Baker.
The inspiring tale of an Edwardian eccentric and the world's first ""tree hugger,"" Man of the Trees introduces the storied life of Richard St. Barbe Baker to the world.