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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

10 best books like The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Tim Flannery): Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, The Natural History of Selborne, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul, Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life

Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
AuthorTom Wessels
ISBN0881504203
An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell...
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
AuthorMarcia Bjornerud
ISBN0465006841
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and...
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
AuthorE.C. Pielou
ISBN0226668126
A world building book. Pielou's world is vast, complex, and filled with, sometimes surprising, concepts and images. One of those books to read in segments of time, between other reading materials. Quotes later ....

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The Natural History of Selborne
AuthorGilbert White
ISBN0140431128
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
AuthorPeter Silver
ISBN0393062481
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh—groups that rarely intermingled...
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
AuthorDavid Attenborough
The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collection s exquisite natural history artworks in Amazing Rare Things is supplemented by an introduction...
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0809016346
The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
AuthorDonald Worster
ISBN0521468345
In a narrow sense, Nature's Economy could be considered a counterpart to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn looks at evolution of scientific knowledge from the inside, looking for moments when accumulated evidence pushes scientists to a new paradigm, Worster looks at the...
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476888
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
AuthorDavid W. Wolfe
ISBN0738206792
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David W. Wolfe lifts the veil on this hidden world, revealing...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune

In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
AuthorStephen R. Palumbi
ISBN1597264350
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
AuthorJulia Whitty
ISBN0618119817
At the center of Deep Blue Home, a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it, is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the...
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
AuthorTed Steinberg
ISBN0195140109
In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of our nation--a history that, for the first time, places the environment at the very center of our story. Written with exceptional clarity, Down to Earth re-envisions the story of America "from...
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
AuthorAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN0521546184
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World
AuthorPeter D. Ward
ISBN0805075127
"They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." --Publishers Weekly

Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding...
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins
AuthorJames Shreeve
ISBN0380728818
This prehistoric journey through Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the controversy surrounding the fate of the Neandertals, is "an extraordinarily clear presentation of the issues and the scientists behind them." -- New York Times Book Review. "Reading The Neanderthal Enigma is...
A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
AuthorClive Ponting
ISBN0140176608
A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point...
Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park
AuthorAlston Chase
ISBN0156720361
This book makes me not want to work for the Parks Service (a real possibility) and yet I very much wonder how much bias is there. The author's tone is relentlessly resentful of what he sees as an overblown bureaucracy. While some of the decisions the NPS made in Yellowstone are truly horrific, i.e. the actual...
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN1610910206
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people. If it ceased flowing,...
Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs
AuthorJohn R. Horner
ISBN0894802208
This was a really great place to start if you want to know more about dinosaurs and paleontology and the only knowledge you have is watching the Jurassic Park movies. Horner talks about digging one formation over the course of several years and the discoveries made there that drastically changed how...
Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie
AuthorRichard Manning
ISBN0140233881
More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little-understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of this land, showing how the grass is not only our last connection...
Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World
AuthorAnn Moyal
ISBN0801880521
When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with classification, the category-defying platypus...
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