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  • Harvest Heritage

    Agricultural Origins and Heirloom Crops of the Pacific Northwest

    Using imported heirloom grains and fruits, Spanish explorers, fur traders, missionaries, and some Native Americans planted subsistence gardens in the Pacific Northwest. After immigration surged in 1843, it took a surprisingly short time for the region’s fertile lands to become a commercial agricultural powerhouse.Demand for food exploded with the industrial revolution as well as the urbanization ... Leer más

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  • The Ghost Orchard

    For readers of H is for Hawk and The Frozen Thames, The Ghost Orchard is award-winning author Helen Humphreys’ fascinating journey into the secret history of an iconic food. Delving deep into the storied past of the apple in North America, Humphreys explores the intricate link between agriculture, settlement, and human relationships. With her signature insight and exquisite prose, she brings light ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Sea of Grass

    The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie

    A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster“This book describes—in loving, living prose—one of the world’s greatest and most important landscapes. And it does so while there’s still time to save some serious part of it.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of NatureThe North American prairie is ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Birdseye

    The Adventures of a Curious Man

    Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

    An Ecological History

    de John L. Riley ...
    Series Libro 2 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... Leer más

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  • American Canopy

    Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

    de Eric Rutkow ...
    This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet the history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself—from the majestic white pines of New England, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Blood Memory

    The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

    The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series "American Buffalo"The American buffalo—our nation’s official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Leaving It To Beaver

    Co-existence strategies for municipalities and landowners

    Conflict with nature will always occur, this is true. But by acknowledging the constant growth of biological and ecological sciences, we can mitigate – and at times entirely prevent – such conflicts. The reason The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals (APFA) has undertaken the Living With Wildlife campaign is simple: to fill a need. Beavers are a keystone species and are ... Leer más

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  • Why Grow Here

    Essays on Edmonton's Gardening History

    “A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: ‘Those don’t grow here you know. It’s too cold.’ If the apricot tree in Highlands knew it couldn’t live here, it might stop scattering white blossoms over three lawns.” – Bert Almon Edmonton has a rich and diverse horticultural history. Vacant lot gardeners, rose gardeners, and horticultural societies have all contributed to the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Water

    A Natural History

    An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Mining California

    An Ecological History

    An environmental History of California during the Gold RushBetween 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD