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When Elizabeth Fournier was eight, her mother and grandparents died. She spent a lot of time in funeral homes as a kid since her family were frequently found in caskets. Fournier family members didn’t have the best longevity record. As a young girl, Elizabeth found cemeteries a place of peace and tranquility. As a teen, she’d attend funerals of people she didn’t know. Not surprisingly, she eventually headed into the local funeral home and asked for a job, any job. She landed the position of live-in night keeper, where she resided in a trailer in the far reaches of a large, hilly ...

Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously—and sometimes simultaneously—maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk.

Appassionato e appassionante, un libro che vi rivoluzionerà la vita! Vivere senza sprechi - rispettando se stessi, gli altri, gli animali e il pianeta - si può. Divertendosi anche molto. Girare in bicicletta, invece che in automobile. Usare le candele in romantiche cenette vegane. Oppure arrivare a staccare del tutto il contatore... come ha fatto Paola Maugeri vivendo per un anno a impatto zero con la sua famiglia, un'esperienza unica nel suo genere.

In Spring Tides, marine biologist Fiona Gell tells the story of a pioneering project to create the very first marine nature reserve on the Isle of Man. Growing up in a traditional fishing family on the island, Fiona spent her time on her grandfather's boat, listening to stories from the local fishermen and combing the beach for mermaid's purses and whelks' eggs.

Knud Rasmussen (1878-1933) blev født i Grønland, men måtte som 12-årig forlade den elskede ø for at tage på kostskole i Danmark. Som voksen vendte han tilbage til Grønland, men denne gang i en ny rolle som polarforsker. Via sine mange bøger og foredrag om oplevelserne i Grønland og andre polaregne vandt Knud Rasmussen en helt særlig plads i kulturhistorien og har i dag status som en legendarisk opdagelsesrejsende. Forfatter Niels Fenger, der selv havde en stærk tilknytning til Grønland, fortæller her om Knud Rasmussens spændende liv og hans usædvanlige personlighed.

A magnificent and empowering memoir about a woman spearheading a global initiative to heal the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them. When Kinari Webb first travelled to Indonesian Borneo at 21, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realised that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to rampant logging, which in turn imperilled their health and safety further.

Disequilibrium tells the story of the creation of the Quirimbas National Park and the author's simultaneous descent into the uncontrolled cycles of mania and depression that characterize bipolar disorder and threaten the lives and wellbeing of those affected. The author's struggles to establish the park in the face of widespread poaching and appalling human poverty parallel his painstaking efforts to regain both ‘a functional approximation of sanity’ and then the love and respect of his wife and family. A photo gallery accompanies the text.

Der Tod des Elefantenflüsterers und preisgekrönten Umweltschützers Lawrence Anthony trifft seine Frau Françoise schwer. Plötzlich führt sie das südafrikanische Naturschutzreservat ganz allein, das Geld wird knapp und Wilderer machen sich das Chaos von Lawrences Tod zunutze. So bleibt für Françoise keine Zeit zu trauern. Doch die von ihrem Mann gerettete Elefantenherde teilt Françoises Trauer und entwickelt nach und nach eine neue und tiefe Beziehung zu ihr. Sie spendet ihr Kraft, und so werden die Elefanten ihre größten Unterstützer und sie ein Teil der Herde.

Natürlich wollen wir alle die Welt retten, nur ist das im Detail leider etwas freudlos. Lokale Produkte aus dem Bioladen schmecken zwar besser als Industrieware und Plastiktüten sind schon aus ästhetischen Gründen eine Zumutung. Wenn man aber konsequent klimaneutral sein will, bedeutet das eine radikale Lebensumstellung, was schnell zur neuen Öko-Religion wird, mit der man vor allem den Mitmenschen auf den Geist geht. Alexander von Schönburg ist dennoch überzeugt: Es muss möglich sein, angenehm und doch halbwegs ressourcenschonend zu leben.

Alysia Vasey's earliest memories are of walking alongside her grandfather as they explored the West Yorkshire moors that they called home. As an adult, this love for wild things stayed with her, even as she learnt that her family's knowledge of edible plants were a legacy of a much darker time during the Second World War. After leaving Yorkshire in search of adventure, Alysia was eventually guided home by her motto: be true to yourself and you will become the person you were meant to be.

In The Robin, Stephen Moss records a year of observing the robin both close to home and in the field to shed light on the hidden life of this apparently familiar bird. We follow its lifecycle from the time it enters the world as an egg, through its time as a nestling and juvenile, to the adult bird and ultimately, death.

Sir Peter Scott had a truly incredible life. He was the only son of legendary explorer Captain Scott. His godfather was J. M. Barrie, and he was married to Elizabeth Jane Howard. He also represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at sailing in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal. He founded the Wildfoul and Wetlands Trust and also helped to found the Worldwide Fund for Nature. This is a beautiful and timely re-discovered book, perfect for those who are interested in preserving our planet.

Part memoir, part travelogue, this is the story of one woman's six years as an outsider in a reindeer-herding village in the Arctic Tundra, forging a life on her own in one of the most unknowable cultures on earth. An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sámi people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway's wanderlust; an affair with a Sámi reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for the tiny town of Kautokeino, Norway.

In The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world - the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand - in search of encounters with animals and people. Navigating between human and natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now.

Jeff Appelquist has traveled to all 50 of the United States, myriad foreign countries, and six continents. He has survived three years in the Marine Corps infantry; a violent rock slide on Mount Kilimanjaro; a Force Nine gale in a sailboat on the Atlantic Ocean; a frozen regulator while wreck-diving deep in icy Lake Superior; and a ghostly encounter with a Confederate soldier on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. He is a student of history who teaches leadership. He is an international sportsman who loves the outdoors. And he is deeply concerned about the state of our beloved Earth.

Suzy Lowry Geno walks the hills and creek side of Old Field Farm seeking a simpler peace-filled life like those of her grandparents and great-grandparents, who worked those acres before her. But as she finally began to rest in the true joys of faith, family, and slower living, she was forced back into the realities of the world of technology in the struggle to save her husband's life. Join her in Simple Times at Old Field Farm as she emerges triumphantly on the mountainside "keeping her hands busy and her heart open."

Eine wahre und rührende Geschichte. Während der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt, wird der Warschauer Zoo Schauplatz einer dramatischen Rettungsaktion, die über 300 Juden vor dem sicheren Tod bewahrt. Jan und Antonina Zabinski, der Zoodirektor und seine Frau, schmuggeln Juden aus dem Warschauer Ghetto auf das brachliegende Zoogelände, wo sie die Todgeweihten in den leeren Tierkäfigen vor den Nazis verstecken und ihnen damit das Leben retten.

Birgit Schrowange ist alleinerziehende Mutter, steht seit über dreißig Jahren vor der Kamera und hat sich das Leben geschaffen, das sie sich erträumt hat. In ihrem Hörbuch beschreibt sie, wie wichtig es gerade für Frauen ist, ihr Leben selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, sich finanziell nicht von Männern abhängig zu machen und immer wieder auch Zeit fürs Nichtstun einzuplanen.

This light-hearted collection of memoirs tells the compelling story of a company executive who walked away from global corporations and immersed himself in the world of non-profit; in this case, WWF, one of the world's largest conservation organizations. After years of working in the corporate sector, C.Y. Chong decided to pursue a new avenue of work. He joined WWF International as a finance manager and was soon promoted to director of finance; however, this book is about his non-financial experiences.

Climate change is alarming and complicated. Governments are acting too slowly or not at all, and not enough people feel informed or empowered enough to demand action. But ignoring a catastrophe of such magnitude is a certain path to disaster. The Big Swim puts forward the idea that personal growth arises from facing both inner tensions and threats to the biosphere.