Nature-writing memoir told through the connection between the authors personal journey and the osprey nesting season in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Provides insights into the life and history of this large sea bird of prey-- Provided by publisher....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Comstock Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781501783760)
Nature-writing memoir told through the connection between the authors personal journey and the osprey nesting season in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Provides insights into the life and history of this large sea bird of prey-- Provided by publisher....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Comstock Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781501783753)
A memoir, tribute to a once-endangered species, and natural history, Return of the Osprey recounts the many discoveries David Gessner made when he immersed himself for an entire nesting season in the lives of the ospreys th...Lasīt vairāk
The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world. This is a fable of freedom and wildness. Flaco has been dubbed the worlds most famous...Lasīt vairāk
Bestselling author David Gessner asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to navigating climate crisis.The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In ...Lasīt vairāk
Bestselling author David Gessners wilderness road trip inspired by Americas greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, is a rallying cry in the age of climate change (Robert Redford).Leave it as it is, Theodore Roosevelt annou...Lasīt vairāk
When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner looked to Thoreau for guidance. Here are the lessons he took away. A powerful and timely book from one of the most provocative and engaging voices in contemporary environmental writing...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Aug-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781982105044)
An environmental clarion call is told through a New York Times best-selling authors wilderness road trip inspired by Americas greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt. By the author of All the Wild that Remains. 50,000 first printing. Illustrat...Lasīt vairāk
&;A rallying cry in the age of climate change.&; &;Robert Redford An environmental clarion call, told through bestselling author David Gessner&;s wilderness road trip inspired by America&;s greatest conservationi...Lasīt vairāk
David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature-writing legend, author of fifteen books, Hay was something of a hero to the younger Gessner. But it wasn’t until he returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that Gessner befriended the olde...Lasīt vairāk
The writer describes how he spent his youth playing Ultimate Frisbee and the fierce competition, camaraderie, and epic parties he survived while trying to win the national competition in a largely misunderstood sport. An acclaimed essayist an...Lasīt vairāk
An award-winning nature writer follows in the footsteps of two American writers who personified the Wild West, visiting their birthplaces and the sites they wrote about and discusses the future of the region, now plagued by droughts, fires, fracking...Lasīt vairāk
An award-winning nature writer follows in the footsteps of two American writers who personified the Wild West, visiting their birthplaces and the sites they wrote about and discusses the future of the region, now plagued by droughts, fires, fracking...Lasīt vairāk
Looks at the Gulf Coast regions birds, sea life, and ecosystems after the events of the BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill in 2010. Winner of the 2013 ASLE Book AwardWinner of the Reed Award for the Best Book on the Southe...Lasīt vairāk
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history: over the course of three months, nearly five million barrels of crude oil gushed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and washed up along our coast. Yet it was an...Lasīt vairāk
Inspired by a rough-and-tumble journey across country and down river, David Gessner makes the case for a new environmentalism. In a frank, funny, and incisive call to arms that spans from the Cape Wind Project to the Monkey Wrench Gang, he considers...Lasīt vairāk
An irreverent, absorbing, and insightful tale of one man’s adventures following the great 7,000-mile osprey migration across two continentsA Book Sense Notable TitleDavid Gessner has long been fascinated by ospreys, gr...Lasīt vairāk
Can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law? The uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer that straightforward question are the subject of this collection, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal phi...Lasīt vairāk
Can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law? The uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer that straightforward question are the subject of this collection, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal phi...Lasīt vairāk
