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The essential field guide to all of Europe’s major habitats—visually stunning, meticulously researched, and packed with invaluable informationEurope is a place of natural wonders, from the icy expanses of the tundra to the arid beauty of deserts and the lush vibrancy of rainforests. This illustrated guide covers all the continent’s major habitats, providing an invaluable resource for understanding and preserving its breathtaking landscapes, ecosystems, and wildlife. Unlike standard habitat classification systems that focus solely on plant communities, Habitats of Europe offers a unique approach to understanding habitats by combining animal assemblages with descriptions of habitat structure, climate, soils, and vegetation. Perfect for nature lovers and ecologists. Whether you’re a seasoned ecologist or a curious nature lover, this one-of-a-kind field guide will inspire you to explore and protect the rich biodiversity of Europe.Features engaging, fact-filled descriptions of 56 major habitatsIncludes a wealth of climate graphs, silhouettes, and breathtaking color photosPresents an easy-to-use system for assessing and understanding habitats—developed in collaboration with experts in conservation, birding, and tour guidingEncourages the reader to look beyond individual species and understand the intricate interactions that define each ecosystemMakes habitat science accessible to a wider audience, enticing the reader to discover more about the continent and its ecologyAn ideal travel companion for birders, naturalists, and wildlife enthusiastsThe go-to reference for conservation organizations, ecologists, and policymakers

140 sider i tværformat med spiralryg. Guiden er gennemillustreret i farver med mange små farvefotos og detaljerede cykelkort i målestoksforhold 1:75 000. Beskrivelse af den 505 km lange rute, som er en af Tysklands mest kendte historiske veje, langs floderne Tauber og Lech.

Sam Gennawey, a retired urban planner and historian, embarks on an incredible #VanLife journey spanning six-years, 175,000-miles, and over 380 sacred locations protected by the U.S. National Park Service. In a mix of travelogue, history, and self-reflection, Gennawey seeks answer to crucial questions about "We, the People" in America's journey.

Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen - writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master - in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant.Author of The Snow Leopard, co-founder of the Paris Review and the only writer to have ever won the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure of twentieth-century American literary culture. He was also, briefly, an undercover agent for the fledgling CIA; an environmental activist; an advocate for Native American rights and California farmworkers; friends with the likes of Truman Capote and William Styron; and a daring explorer who visited every continent on Earth, scaling the Himalayas and floating through the Amazon on a balsawood raft.Across these many lives, Matthiessen was always searching for what he called his 'true nature' - an enlightened state of being, without ego - and this spiritual quest ultimately led him, even as he inflicted great pain on three wives and multiple children, to the highest ranks of Zen.Readers and critics have struggled to reconcile Matthiessen's extraordinarily varied achievements and literary output, which included everything from experimental novels to advocacy journalism. Now, for the first time, drawing on rich primary sources and hundreds of interviews, acclaimed biographer Lance Richardson pulls together the seemingly disparate threads of Matthiessen's story. With page-turning immediacy, Richardson illuminates how the writer's uncanny gifts enabled him to sense connections between ecological decline, racism and labour exploitation - to express, eloquently and presciently, that 'in a damaged human habitat, all problems merge'.'Splendidly readable ... [Richardson] writes with flair and erudition' The Observer on House of Nutter'Illuminating and vividly drawn' Sunday Telegraph on House of Nutter

If you like unusual travel books, then you'll enjoy Susan Snow Lukesh's study of her great aunt Agatha Snow's sketch book developed during her 3-month tour of Europe with three companions in 1912. In Agatha! Agatha Snow Abroad: A Sketch Book from her 1912 EuropeanTour, Lukesh presents and explores the original images and brief comments, pulling threads to explore what the often-cryptic comments mean. Agatha! also explores the people she and her friends met and briefly traveled with, and what happened to the various players in this trip after it ended as the world moved into the first World War and even beyond. Although their steam ship left New York harbor barely two days after the Titanic sank and before the survivors arrived, no recorded comments from the passage to Europe mention the tragedy.Contemporary postcards and one early 19th c print complement Agatha's drawings and show how close her small sketches came to the actual sites she portrayed. The small sketch book, not even four by six inches, presents images-some with incredible detail that is best seen when the original image is enlarged, causing a reader to shake his or her head and wonder how she did it. Her favorite subjects are people and as many folks who travel know part of the fascination and interest in travel is encountering people who are quite different from those we know at home. And certainly, Agatha's images, in fact caricatures, of people capture and convey her clear fascination with the people she encountered.Agatha! supplements Agatha's comments and descriptions with diary entries and letters sent home by other contemporary accounts further enriching what may first appear as a meager offering, if judged only by size. Agatha's sketch book, and the exploration of it, offer a snapshot of life in the early 1900s during the Edwardian era-where and how folks traveled, what travelers discussed, what they did, and what they ate. Lukesh also traveled on a couple occasions to some of the very places that Agatha and companions visited. On one occasion, she found herself traveling in one of the railway cars and on the very line-both now under restoration-that Agatha and companions traveled in England. Also, in England, she traveled to see Warwick where Agatha had seen and drawn two wonderful sketches of men on the streets of that fine historic town.Agatha! not only presents the original sketches and brief comments from over 100 years ago, but includes solutions to puzzles that Agatha left us, such as what is the story of Mrs. Campbell and the Cockroaches in the Cabin, what is A.B.C., and what are horse-tail guards? Agatha!fulfills a reader's need to know what happened to the folks Agatha met and now the readers meet on the trip-both those on the ship passages to and from Europe and those met along the way in Europe. As much as possible, using public records, the lives of some of them after the trip, through World War 1 and the years after, are traced, as are the fates of the ships that carried the travelers. Not every puzzle has been solved, leaving some for readers, but many are, with great thanks to internet resources these days and Lukesh's ability to use public records for genealogical purposes and answers.

Sasser grew up in poverty in a tin roofed shack in Oklahoma's Cookson hills to travel the entire globe as a professional writer, photographer, adventurer. US Navy journalist, police officer, US Army Green Beret soldier, kick boxer, rodeo bronco rider, rodeo clown, and combat correspondent.He has soloed the Atlantic and pacific oceans, dog sled to Greenland, Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (tallest mountain in Africa). He has set a flight record across the U.S. in a powered parachute (From San Diego to Atlantic Ocean).THIS IS THE STORY OF A LIFE WELL-LIVED!