Wild Things, Wild Places
Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
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A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress.
In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world - to her, the prophets in the wilderness - who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them - and on her own - to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves.
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For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.
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It could have been good.
- De udzuzu en 04-14-18
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
- The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
- De: Mike Shanahan
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers, rain forest royalty, more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers tells their amazing story. Fig trees fed our prehuman ancestors, influenced diverse cultures, and played key roles in the dawn of civilization.
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Incredible research in a wonderful story
- De Alonsa Guevara en 11-24-22
De: Mike Shanahan
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness
- De: Theodore Roosevelt
- Narrado por: Andre Stojka
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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A former American president nearly dies during an ill-planned exploration through the Brazilian Wilderness and down the River of Doubt. Theodore Roosevelt was a naturalist, explorer, author, hunter, governor, soldier and 26th President of the United States.
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narration hindrance to story
- De EBH en 09-29-20
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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Feathers
- The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: Aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?
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Fantastic Science and Fun
- De Chris Reich en 12-28-14
De: Thor Hanson
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The Wilderness Warrior
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 40 h y 27 m
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In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I.
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I DID keep listening
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 01-13-10
De: Douglas Brinkley
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Around the World in 50 Years
- My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
- De: Albert Podell
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him - two to disease, one to the Vietcong.
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Fantastic Adventure
- De CJ en 09-12-18
De: Albert Podell
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The Galápagos
- A Natural History
- De: Henry Nicholls
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to exotic creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. In The Galapagos, science writer Henry Nicholls offers a lively natural and human history of the archipelago, charting its evolution from deserted wilderness to scientific resource (made famous by Charles Darwin) and global ecotourism hot spot.
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Thought-Provoking
- De Jean en 10-23-18
De: Henry Nicholls
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The Beak of the Finch
- A Story of Evolution in Our Time
- De: Jonathan Weiner
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously.Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
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Fascinating in-depth look at evolution in action
- De Philip en 05-15-11
De: Jonathan Weiner