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"When dashing Jackson Fortier stumbles -- literally -- into the bayou's inner depths, he never expects to encounter a gorgeous woman in the swamp. Little does he know, Josephine Cadieux has an ulterior motive for getting to know him: infiltrating his world to find the man who brutally attacked her. But the more Josie tries to ignore her feelings for this stranger, the more determined he is to keep her safe... and out of the clutches of a serial killer."...
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Relato corto para ser contado a niños pequeños acerca de una Laguna Encantada que estaba en peligro de desaparecer debido a la voracidad humana que le había contaminado sus aguas y le dejaba pasar cada vez menos caudal por su rio alimentador.Debido al bello espíritu que le habitaba, esta laguna sagrada transmitía con su presencia cualidades de curación anímica y espiritual a todos cuantos vivían cerca de ella, plantas, animales y humanos incluidos.Para...
3) Pond Life
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This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community.
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Where and when to look
Observing and collecting specimens
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Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland's inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations.
The study of life in British lakes and rivers has been traditionally neglected in natural history publications, and yet the intricacies of plant and animal ecology as a whole can be readily studied in a pond or lake. Not since Macan and Worthington's...
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Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...
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"The book begins with how lakes are born; subsequent chapters look at crater lakes, dams; the Carolina bays; oriented lakes; subglacial lakes; and salt lakes. The middle chapters look at the physical properties of lakes. The final chapters examine the ways in which lakes die, either through human or natural processes. In sum, the book constitutes a thorough "biography" of lakes. This is a solid, entertaining work of popular scientific writing on a...
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Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner; however her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears Nellie joins the Bog Hollow boys in the search--and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.
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The streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans-in these waters, I was shaped. My name is Andrew. I grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, exploring the waterways of my youth. It wasn't until survival and combat swim training in the United States Air Force that I found God in the water. As I got older, my adventures and experiences with water continued to teach me the power water has to support life and shape the world. Now, I am a father. Just as water has...
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"Water: The Elixir of Life" is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding the importance of water in our lives and in the future of our planet. The author challenges us to rethink our attitudes towards water and to take concrete action to preserve this vital resource. This book is a call to awareness, collaboration and action to ensure that water continues to flow as the elixir of life for present and future generations.
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Twelve-year-old Austin Finch, his younger brother Ethan, sons of the park ranger, are determined to protect all the creatures of Bog Hollow State Park, even the Turkey vultures, from the Manley twins and their father who would like to turn Bog Hollow into a golf course--and they find an ally in the new girl Nellie Tibbits, whose mother has come to southern Georgia to study snakes.
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In Georgia the Bog Hollow State Park Junior Bass Fishing Tournament is only a week away, but most of the bass seem to have disappeared from Bog Hollow, and brothers Austin and Ethan Finch and their friends are determined to find out if it is a case of pollution, an invasion of mudfish--or something more sinister.
12) Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwest
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"Andersson...was the most important African explorer after Livingstone...fascinating books on travel...in 1853 he was the first white man to make his way to the great newly discovered Lake Ngami...through barren tribe-infested wastes of Damaraland." -Daily Telegraph, Oct. 6, 1936
"Lake Ngami...is a book of great interest...containing narratives of exciting adventures with wild animals and of hair-breadth escapes experienced by the author while in...
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It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.
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"There are more than 180 exotic species in the Great Lakes. Some, such as green algae, the Asian tapeworm, and the suckermouth minnow, have had little or no impact so far. But a handful of others--sea lamprey, alewife, round goby, quagga mussel, zebra mussel, Eurasian watermilfoil, spiny water flea, and rusty crayfish--have conducted an all-out assault on the Great Lakes and are winning the battle. In Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle...
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Fighting for Ecological Heritage
In 1992, a Hawaiian developer proposed a subdivision on Cougar Bay's northern shore, just two miles south of Coeur d'Alene. Dedicated, tenacious locals took on the seemingly impossible goal of stopping the "Cougar Beach" development. Unlikely allies--environmental activists and a cantankerous landowner--banded together. Private and public groups stepped up. In 1997, The Nature Conservancy purchased major shoreline...
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Aquatic invasive species have invaded the Great Lakes.
Now, they are poised to invade thousands of lakes, rivers, and streams. We must stop the invasion! This handy, full-color guide by Wildlife Forever spotlights 44 aquatic invasive species, divided into three categories: invertebrates, plants, and fish. Get the details on how they live, grow, reproduce, and spread. Learn how they impact you, your environment, and the economy. Invaders of the Great...
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A portrait of these Scottish wetlands: "Fascinating…makes you yearn for a sip of golden whisky whose barley malt has been smoked over a rich, peaty fire." -Daily Mail
The peatlands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides are half land, half water. Their surface is a glorious tweed woven from tiny, living sphagnums rich in wildlife, but underneath are layer upon layer of dead mosses transforming into the peat. One can, with care, walk out onto them, but...
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"Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways...I resolved to make my living as an explorer and said so in school when we were all asked what we planned to do upon our growing up."
John Leland lived a Huckleberry Finn sort of boyhood that most children would envy. A fifth-generation low country native, he grew up fishing, swimming, and hunting arrowheads on a tidal creek...
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An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America's most iconic places
This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau's most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness.
Using this guide, both armchair readers and trail-walkers alike can amble around the pond's shoreline, pausing at fifteen special places to learn about...
20) 365 Days Wild
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365 inspirational suggestions for enjoying nature. These 'Random Acts of Wildness' will encourage you to fall in love with, learn about or even help wildlife and wild places near you. A Random Act of Wildness is any little thing that you can do as part of your day, to enjoy nature. It can take a few seconds - like smelling a wildflower on the way to work; or a few hours - like creating a whole area for wildlife in your garden. Some Random Acts of...
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