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• Three monstrous factoids
• Ulisse Aldrovandi's twofold "Pandechion" : collecting knowledge about monsters
• Observing correctly : on the ambivalent relationship of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum to monsters
• A centaur in London.

"A nuanced reframing of the dual importance of reading and observation for early modern naturalists. Historians of science traditionally argue that the sciences were born in early modern Europe during the so-called scientific revolution. At the heart of this narrative lays a supposed shift from the knowledge of books to the knowledge of things. The attitude of the new-style intellectual broke with the text-based practices of erudition and instead cultivated the new empiricism of observation and experiment. Instead of blindly trusting the authority of ancient sources such as Pliny and Aristotle, practitioners of the new experimental philosophy insisted upon experiential proof. In A Centaur in London, Fabian Kraemer calls a key tenet of this master narrative into question-that the rise of empiricism entailed a decrease in the importance of reading practices. Kraemer shows instead that the early practices of textual erudition and observational empiricism were by no means so remote from one another as the traditional narrative would suggest. Kraemer argues that reading books and reading the book of nature had a great deal in common-indeed, that reading texts was its own kind of observation. Especially in the case of rare and unusual phenomena like monsters, naturalists were dependent on the written reports of others who had experienced the good luck to be at the right place at the right time. The connections between compiling examples from texts and from observation were especially close in such cases. A Centaur in London combines the history of scholarly reading with the history of scientific observation to argue for the sustained importance of both throughout the Renaissance and provides a nuanced, textured portrait of early modern naturalists at work"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Biomes: Concepts, Characteristics and Terminology
• Profiles of Angola’s Biomes and Ecoregiens
• Landscapes: Geology, Hydrology and Geomorphology.

This open access book richly illustrates the first, and comprehensive, account of the country’s biomes and ecoregions, the driving forces that account for their diversity and vulnerability, and the ecological principles that provide an understanding of the patterns and processes that have shaped landscapes, ecoregions, and ecosystems. Angola encompasses the greatest diversity of terrestrial biomes and is the second richest in terms of ecoregions, of any African country. Yet its biodiversity and the structure and functioning of its ecosystems are largely undocumented. The author draws on personal field observations from over 50 years of involvement in ecological and conservation studies in Angola and across Southern Africa. The vast recent literature published by researchers in neighboring, better resourced countries provides depth to the accounts of ecological principles and processes relevant to Angola and thus contributing to the understanding and sustainable management of its natural resources. .

• Beyond the end of the world
• The "furry beast" in the Imperial city
• The republic
• "There begins the harshest of backlands"
• Burdensome tasks and forced obedience
• Article 44, section 32
• "Correcting the world"
• "Returning immediately, through the other side"
• "With presents, patience and good manners"
• Mariano's tongue
• "The greatest number of unforeseen difficulties"
• Dismissals, resignations, and two colonels
• Boxes and rain
• Portage, pole, and paddle
• Passion
• Expedition in peril
• "Shifts and contrivances available in wild countries"
• "Is he a general yet?"
• Jack of all trades
• Catanduvas
• Back in the field
• "I think it advisable the general not continue his journey"
• In the wilderness
• Old Rondon versus the "new state"
• The Gandhi of Brazil
• Battle over a legacy

"Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them--and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated "River of Doubt" journey in 1913-14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star general, Rondon, himself of indigenous descent, devoted the remainder of his life to not only writing about the region's flora and fauna, but also advocating for the peoples who inhabited the rainforest and lobbying for the creation of a system of national parks. Despite his many achievements--which include laying down a 1,200-mile telegraph line through the heart of the Amazon and three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize--Rondon has never received his due. Originally published in Brazil, Into the Amazon is the first comprehensive biography of his life and remarkable career." -- Amazon.com

• The Apotheosis of Humboldt during the Nineteenth Century / Leoncio López-Ocón
• A Sense of Place: Early Modern Roots of Humboldt's Natural History Practices / Florike Egmond
• Six Days on Tenerife: The Making of Humboldt's Tropical Antique / Peter Mason
• Caldas and Humboldt in the Andes: Who Invented Biogeography? / Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez
• An Archaeology of Mutis' Disappearing Gift to Humboldt / José Antonio Amaya
• Incas, Pyramids and Amazons: Notes on Humboldt's Equatorial Encounters / Neil Safier
• Humboldt's Magic Mountain / Juan Pimentel
• Peruvian Desencuentro: Humboldt's Fog, Unanue's Light / Mark Thurner
• Air in a Flask: The Mexican Making of Humboldt's Objects of Knowledge / Miruna Achim and Gabriela Goldin Marcovich
• Humboldt's Misreading of the Mercantilist Face of New Spain / José Enrique Covarrubias
• Bonpland's Cactus, Or Trafficking in Exotics and Ignorance / Irina Podgorny
• Humboldt's Columbus, Or the Iberian Worlds that Humboldt Ignored / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

"The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in Humboldt's footsteps' this book outlines the new critical horizon of 'post-Humboldtian' Studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron's epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary 'adventurer' and 'hero of science' surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron's opus and practice was largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge and practice, in truth Humboldt did not 'invent nature' nor did he pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering, 'postcolonial' cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist, and in most ways were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and the global history of science and knowledge"-- Provided by publisher

"In his ability to capture the elusive essence of sport [Mize] serves as a voice for all of us. That's a rare gift and is precisely what makes The Jon Boat Years a treasure that should be read and enjoyed not just now but for generations to come"-- Provided by publisher
"Delightful tales of hunting and fishing, family, friends, dogs, and precious time well spent. Nationally recognized and award-winning writer Jim Mize captures the true essence of sport and living life to the fullest in this collection of stories about his outdoor escapades. In tales spanning more than five decades, Mize invites readers into carefree days hiking through the Colorado Rockies with a fly rod and leisurely casting poppers to bludgill on small southern ponds. Cold days shivering in a duck blind or deer hunting trips lost in fog all make for fine memories. And then there are the dogs. Meet boot-eating Labs, setters with fine noses, and a Brittany spaniel that loved to bounce through frosted kudzu. Mize's humorous stories entertain and return readers to their own turkey hunting or creek-fishing excursions. Black-and-white line drawings from artist Bob White illustrate stories filled with laughter, quiet contemplation, and wonder. Mize reminds the young and old that the pleasure of the pursuit matters most"-- Provided by publisher

Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting-and indeed, whether we can make such a distinction. After all, plot, Yoon Sun Lee contends, cannot be disentangled from the material setting in which it takes place. In The Natural Laws of Plot, Lee connects the history of the novel and the history of science to show how plot in the realist novel is given shape by the characteristics of the physical world-and how in turn, plot serves as the avenue through which the realist novel participates in the same lines of inquiry about the world as pursued by the natural and physical sciences. Lee argues that the novel emerges and evolves in tandem with the development of scientific practices and concepts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe to investigate the idea of a unified and objective world. Drawing on readings from Defoe, Austen, Scott, and many others, Lee demonstrates how bodies, human and non-human, behave according to laws that are built into worlds by plot, and how they are subject to causes and consequences that can occur independently of individual action, social forces, or metaphysical destiny. This interest in representing and exploring how things happen sets the novel apart from other literary genres, and makes the history of science integral to the understanding of the history and theory of the novel, and of narrative. Plot, Lee shows us, is immersive and powerful, because it satisfies our wish to know how things happen in a coherent, objective, and possibly real world.
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• Introduction : natural things in early modern worlds / Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu Yıldırım
• On the design / Zoë Sadokierski and Katie Dean
• Pollen : the sexual life of plants in Mesoamerica / Helen Burgos-Ellis
• Bezoar : medicine in the belly of the beast / Mackenzie Cooley
• Canal : cross-cultural encounters and control of water / Alexander Statman
• Ambergris : from sea to scent in Renaissance Italy / Mackenzie Cooley and Kathryn Biedermann
• Squid : natural history as food history / Whitney Barlow Robles
• Coffee : of melancholic Turkish bodies and sensory experiences / Duygu Yıldırım
• Manchineel : power, pain, and knowledge in the Lesser Antilles / Thomas C. Anderson
• Pitcher plant : drowning in her sweet nectar / Elaine Ayers
• Leaf : the materiality of early modern herbals / Julia Heideklang
• Armadillo : an animal in search of a place / Florencia Pierri
• Bird : living names of Félix de Azara's lost collection / Anna Toledano
• Brain : objecthood, subjecthood, and the genius of Gauss / Nicolaas Rupke
• Epilogue : nature's narratives / Paula Findlen
• Afterword : the disorder of things / Alan Mikhail

"Nature School is a beautifully illustrated and engaging learning resource offering lessons and activities designed to inform and inspire a child's love for the natural world"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The planet and the political
• The pandemic and our sense of time
• The historicity of things, including humans
• Staying with the present

"The book opens with a discussion of the pandemic, then investigates the modern origins of the separation between "natural" and "human" histories, and what may be at stake in that separation. Does having different worlds make it difficult for humans to deal with a planet that is one?"-- Provided by publisher

• Part I. "Rough and uncivilized," 1880-1900
• Part II. Engineers at the oasis, 1901-1928
• Part III. The great expansion, 1929-1939
• Part IV. Growing pains and pleasures, 1940-1985

"This history of Sabino Canyon shows like never before why this mountain canyon near Tucson, Arizona, is such a beloved place. With more than 200 images and engaging text, David Wentworth Lazaroff relays [and] relates 100 years of history, revealing how the canyon changed from a little-known oasis into an immensely popular recreation area on the edge of a modern metropolis"-- Provided by publisher

• Following Flukeprints
• A City Dweller in Disguise
• Coyote Knocking at My Door
• My Dog Is Not the Smartest Cookie in the Jar
• Through Genghis's Eyes
• The Remedial Garden
• Wasp on Avocado Toast
• Captive Animals
• A Bird's Awakening Call
• Opus the Opossum
• Squirrel Wars
• Apocalypse Now
• Lizard! Lizard! Lizard!
• Among Dolphins

"Marooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard"-- Provided by publisher

• Bartram's westerly wanderings: economic transitions in Travels / Taylor McGaughy
• "A prospect of the grand sublime": an Atlantic world borderland seen and unseen by William Bartram / Daniel H. Usner
• Wrestling with Bartram's alligators / Kathryn H. Braund
• The white cliffs of the Mississippi: Bartram and deep time / Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
• Bartram's tree: Franklinia alatamaha / Joel T. Fry
• "To see the moveing pensil; Display a sort of paper creation, which may endure for ages": William Bartram as a natural history artist / Joel T. Fry
• Lively pictures: William Bartram and drawing ad vivum / Elizabeth Athens
• "Behold!": visual mediation in Bartram's Travels / Andrew B. Ross
• How to blaze a trail: lessons from the pioneers of the Bartram Trail Conference / Katie Lamar Jackson
• Commemorating Bartram: the Bartram Trail Conference and interpreting William Bartram / Brad Sanders
• Signing nature, memorializing plantations: public memory along the William Bartram Trail / Thomas Hallock
• Shelving knowledge in Philadelphia: John and William Bartram's books / Robert McCracken Peck
• Bartram's Travels 1791: a bibliographic census / William Cahill, Joel T. Fry, Nancy E. Hoffmann, and Alina Josan

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartram's journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws, was colonial America's first native born naturalist and artist, and the first author in the modern genre of writers who portrayed nature through personal experience as well as scientific observation. His book, first published in 1791, was based on his journeys through southern Indian nations and Britain's southern colonies in the years just prior to the American Revolution and provides descriptions of the natural and cultural environments of what would soon become the American South. Scholars and general readers alike have long appreciated Bartram's lush, vivid prose, his clarity of observation and evident wonder at the landscapes he traversed, and his engagement with the native nations whose lands he traveled through. The Attention of a Traveller: Essays on William Bartram's "Travels" and Legacy offers an interdisciplinary assessment of Bartram's influence and evolving legacy, opening new avenues of research concerning the flora, fauna, and people connected to Bartram and his writings. Featuring 13 essays divided into five sections, contributors to the volume weave together scholarly perspectives from geology, art history, literary criticism, geography, and philosophy, alongside the more traditional Bartram-affiliated disciplines of biology and history. The collection concludes with a comprehensive treatment of the book as a material historical artifact.
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• CONTENTS 1. Prolegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593) 2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen's preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu
• Chapters 15 - 17
• Herbs IV, Marshland Herbs, Chapter 15 Herbs V, Marshland Herbs, Chapter 16 Herbs VI, Poisonous Herbs, Chapter 17 Appendix 5. Weights and measures 5.1 Measures of capacity 5.2 Measures of weight 5.3 Measures of length 5.4 Measures of the size of pills 6. Lists of Substances 6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentioned in BCGM ch. 15 - 17 6.2 Substances discussed in chapters 15 - 17 6.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in BCGM ch. 15 - 17 .
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Volume IV in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 15 through 17, devoted to marshland herbs and poisonous herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.
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• Chapter 1 - General Geology of Bidong Island, Terengganu.-
• Chapter 2 - Sustainable Economic Development of Bidong Island.-
• Chapter 3 - Historic Vietnamese Settlement of Bidong Island.-
• Chapter 4 - Species Richness of Plants in Bidong Island.-
• Chapter 5 - Community Structure and Diversity of Trees in Coastal Forest of Bidong Island, Terengganu.-
• Chapter 6 - Decapoda Crustaceans at the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia.-
• Chapter 7 - Checklist of Lichens From Bidong Island, Terengganu.-
• Chapter 8 - Diversity of Birds in Bidong Island.-
• Chapter 9 - Rapid Assessment of Terrestrial Fauna of Bidong Island, Malaysia.-
• Chapter 10 - Impact of Tropical Storm Pabuk on Intertidal Gastropods in Bidong Island, Malaysia.-
• Chapter 11 - Lunar Cycle Drives Migration of Zooplankton in Coral Reef of Bidong Island.-
• Chapter 12 - Modern Benthic Foraminifera in the Coral Reefs of Bidong Island, Terengganu.-
• Chapter 13 - Meiofauna from the Shipwrecks of Bidong Island, South China Sea.-
• Chapter 14 - Fish Distribution in Tropical Bidong Island, South China Sea Under Influence from Nearshore Sea Acidification.-
• Chapter 15 - Host Preferences and Colouration of Christmas Tree Worms, Spirobrancus corniculatus from Bidong Island.-
• Chapter 16 - Cellular Stress Response of Scleractinian Coral Acropora robusta and Acropora florida in Bidong Island, Malaysia.-
• Chapter 17 - Effects of pH on the Early Life Histories of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster Cf Solaris) in Bidong Island, Terengganu, South China Sea.-
• Chapter 18 - Metals Concentration in Coral Reef Fishes of Bidong Island During the 2017 to 2019 Marine Biology Fieldwork Course.-
• Chapter 19 - Heavy Metals in Surficial Sediment from Bidong Island, Southern South China Sea.
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Bidong Island is a small island located in the South China Sea, and is about 14 km from mainland Peninsular Malaysia. The island and the Bidong archipelago boast of its richness in diversity of both terrestrial and marine organisms and its undeniably pristine and thriving ecosystem. In 1975-1990, Bidong Island was formerly a UNHCR refugee camp for a quarter of a million Vietnamese "Boat people" escaping the Vietnam War, and still holds great significance to many of its descendants. Due to its historical significance, the Terengganu State government plans to develop Bidong Island as a heritage tourism site and a new scuba diving destination. This book highlights the uniqueness of Bidong Island and its archipelago, paying particular attention to the biological aspect (which includes marine and terrestrial organisms) and the pollution status surrounding the island. These mainly focus on organisms of the open water and benthic ecosystems such as plankton, fishes, corals reef communities, crustaceans and foraminifera. In addition, we discuss terrene related topics, which includes tree diversity, lichens and also herpetofauna surrounding the Bidong Island. Indisputably an important topic, we also address the pollution status surrounding Bidong Island, with emphasis on heavy metals and its impact. Readers interested in the areas of environmental sciences should find this book appealing. This book can also be used by students and researchers when discussing about tropical environments on island ecosystems. We do hope that stakeholders that would partake in future interest of Bidong Island (particularly in tourism) are equally aware of the current health status of the island and would engage in conserving and sustaining the diversity and heritage of the archipelago for the benefit of the community. .
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• A story of the land
• A land of provision
• A land of production
• T.L.L. Temple and the humble beginnings of a legacy
• A Land of industry: railroads, logging, and land acquisition
• The land fenced: ranching, tenant farming, and the birth of forestry
• The fenced land: game and wildlife management
• The land for sale: the Great Depression and difficult decisions
• Whose land Is It? Personality factors in shaping Boggy Slough
• The ranch becomes Boggy Slough
• Conservation land
• Appendix. An ecological analysis from Boggy Slough Conservation Area's original Texas land surveys

Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas' Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state's leading game and industrial forest management areas.A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs. The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million-acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family's and the lumber company's struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.
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• Introduction Our Senses Steve Van Matre Mindfulness and Nature
• Natural Sounds Sound Catchers Learning from Bats Listening to Other Animals and Trees Stalking Games Nature Music
• Seeing Nature Our Visual System Seasonal Colors Camouflaged Animals/Countershading Camouflaged Eggs Nature Sculpting Shapes in Nature Seasonal Sight Activities
• The World of Smell Our Olfactory System Aromatherapy Phermonia Seasonal Smell Activities
• The World of Touch Our Somatosensory System Blindfold Activities Connecting to Earth Connecting to Trees Other Touch Activities
• Tasting the World The Edible Wild Tastes of the Season
• Gratitude for Nature
• Sensory Walks Forest Walks City Park Walks Backyard/Confined Spaces Activities
• Other Senses Sense of Direction Synesthesia
• Index of Activities Index About the Author About the Publisher.
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Unplug from technology and "plug in" to nature through the wonder of your senses. The Book of Nature Connection is packed with fun activities for using all our senses to engage with nature in a deep and nourishing way. From "extenda-ears" and acorn whistles to bird calls, camouflage games, and scent scavenger hunts, enjoy over 70 diverse, engaging, sensory activities for all ages that promote mindfulness and nature connection. With activities grouped by the main senses - hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste - plus sensory walks and group games, The Book of Nature Connection is both a powerful learning tool kit and the cure for sensory anesthesia brought on by screen time and lives lived indoors. Whisper in birds, be dazzled by nature's kaleidoscope of colors, taste the freshness of each season, learn to savor the scented world of evergreens, hug a tree and feel the bark against your cheek. Spending time in nature with all senses tuned and primed helps us feel like we belong to the natural world - and in belonging, we come to feel more connected, nourished, and alive. Ideal for educators, camp and youth leaders, caregivers and parents, and anyone looking to reconnect and become a nature sommelier!.
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To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal reveals how women's active participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social and cultural conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors. By taking advantage of the intersections between domesticity, femininity, and nature, the writers and artists studied here laid claim to a specific authority on naturalist subjects, ranging from botany to entomology to natural history more broadly. Botanical Entanglements pairs studies of well-known authors-Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith-with authors and artists who receive less attention in this context-Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Jacson, Elizabeth Blackwell, Henrietta Maria Moriarty, and Mary Delany-to offer a nuanced portrait of the diverse strategies women employed to engage in scientific labor. Using socially acceptable forms of textual production, including popular periodicals, didactic texts, novels, illustrated works, craftwork, and poetry, these women advocated for more substantive and meaningful engagement with the natural world. In parallel, the book also illuminates the emotional and physical intimacies between women, plants, and insects to reveal an early precursor to twenty-first-century theorizing of plant intelligence and human-plant relationships. Recognizing such literary and artistic "entanglement" facilitates a more profound understanding of the multifaceted relationship between women and the natural world in eighteenth-century England.
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The English botanist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63,000 specimens of plants, bulbs, insects, reptiles and mammals -- many not previously documented for science -- as well as over 500 paintings and illustrations. While the outbound trek is well described in Burchell's famous Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, little has been published about the challenges and discoveries made on his return journey to Cape Town, from 1812-1815. This pioneering book traces the homeward leg of Burchell's epic odyssey -- through the arid northern Cape, the Great Karoo, the war-ravaged eastern Cape, and along the Eden-like southern Cape coast. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, including Burchell's letters and the detailed map he created to record his trek, the authors have crafted a thought-provoking and beautifully illustrated account that encompasses both the genius of the man and the natural history of the region that so intrigued him

• The game
• Introduction: Welcome to Victorian England. The natural theologians ; The naturalists ; The social reformers
• Basic principles
• The play of the game. Game setting ; Royal Society meetings ; Your role in the Royal Society ; The Copley Medal ; Special roles in the Council of the Royal Society
• Special rules. Retention of seat on the Council ; Disqualification for reading aloud ; Role of gamemaster, contact with instructor ; Student-initiated rule modifications ; A word in the use of props
• The main factions. A-men (opponents of Darwin) ; X-men (supporters of Darwin)
• Brief sketches of game characters. Historical and composite factional characters ; Indeterminate roles
• Proceedings of the Royal Society. Podium role ; Copley nominations ; Prelude to the game ; Detailed agenda (session by session) ; Summary table of agenda and assignments : protocol and parliamentary procedure
• Specific written and oral assignments
• Playing a natural philosopher or man of science in Victorian England. Introduction to the philosophical controversy ; The historical context : things you should know
• Appendices. Appendix A. Darwin, On the Origin of species (1859)
• Appendix B. Primary source documents. Samuel Wilberforce, Review of On the Origin of species ; John Lubbock, "Tact" ; Francis Bacon's Novum organum, 1620 (excerpts) ; William Paley, Natural theology; or, Evidences of the existence and attributes of the deity ; Charles Kingsley, "A nation's grief for a nation's loss" ; Sample prayers from The book of common prayer ; Song lyrics: "God save the Queen" ; Song lyrics: "All things bright and beautiful"
• Appendix C: Additional sources

• Contents List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction: From Switzerland to the Indies Simona Boscani Leoni, Sarah Baumgartner and Meike Knittel
• part 1: Naturalists' Methods 2 Between the Americas and Europe: Mapping Territories through Questionnaires, 16th-18th Centuries Simona Boscani Leoni
• 3 (Re-)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Vallisneri's Primi Itineris Specimen (1705) Francesco Luzzini
• 4 Flora Near and Far: Accumulating Knowledge on Plants in Eighteenth-Century Zurich Meike Knittel
• 5 The Secrets of Indians: Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas Stefanie Ganger
• part 2: Authorities' and Societies' Strategies 6 Change and Continuity: The Bureaucracy of Knowledge in South America Irina Podgorny
• 7 Questionnaires, Parish Registers and Prize Competitions: The Zurich Physical Society's Sources and Methods for Surveying the Territory Sarah Baumgartner
• 8 Social Anthropology avant la lettre: The Economic Enlightenment Perspective on Traditional Uses of Wetlands Martin Stuber
• part 3: Defining Territories 9 Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, seen through Alexander von Humboldt's Views of Nature Jon Mathieu
• 10 Alpine Landscapes of Health: The Swiss Whey Cure and Therapeutic Tourism between 1750 and 1870 Barbara Orland
• 11 Creation of "Scientific" Knowledge: The Asiatick Society and Exploration of the Himalaya, 1784-1850 Chetan Singh
• Index.
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The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories. Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Ganger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.
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• Intro
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Commencement
• 1. Land
• 2. Parasite
• 3. Migrations
• 4. Air
• 5. Ocean
• 6. Ice
• 7. Animalia
• 8. Eco-ontology
• 9. Re-commencement
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Captions
• Index

"Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. More than that, we all-from humans to plants to bacteria-share a planet. We are all Earthlings. Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of Earthling life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth. In a series of meditations, Earthlings portrays the wonder and beauty of life with deep feeling, vivid detail, and an activist spirit. Parr invites readers to travel among the trees of the Amazonian rainforest; take flight with birds and butterflies migrating through the skies; and plunge into the oceans with whales and polar bears-as well as to encounter bodies infected with deadly viruses and maimed by the violence of global capitalism. Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it"-- Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgments Commencement
• 1. Land
• 2. Parasite
• 3. Migrations
• 4. Air
• 5. Ocean
• 6. Ice
• 7. Animalia
• 8. Eco-ontology
• 9. Re-commencement Notes Bibliography Index.
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Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. More than that, we all-from humans to plants to bacteria-share a planet. We are all Earthlings. Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of Earthling life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth. In a series of meditations, Earthlings portrays the wonder and beauty of life with deep feeling, vivid detail, and an activist spirit. Parr invites readers to travel among the trees of the Amazonian rainforest; take flight with birds and butterflies migrating through the skies; and plunge into the oceans with whales and polar bears-as well as to encounter bodies infected with deadly viruses and maimed by the violence of global capitalism. Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.
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An illustrated review of the Northern Great Plains that blends natural history and human history "The most complete, in-depth look at Dakota ecosystems and their history. An absolutely fascinating read!"-Gabe Brown, author of Dirt to Soil W. Carter Johnson and Dennis H. Knight describe the natural and human histories of the Northern Great Plains in this comprehensive and handsomely illustrated book. Covering a vast period of time, they move from geological developments millions of years ago and the effects of glaciers to historical and ecological developments in recent centuries and the effects of agriculture. The book ends with a discussion of the future of this region, mediated by climate change, with recommendations on how to balance agriculture and other pressing needs in the twenty-first century. Johnson and Knight bring decades of experience to chapters on the major ecosystems of the Dakotas. Written for readers with varying backgrounds, and with discussions of the Prairie Pothole Region, the Missouri River, grasslands, woodlands, the Black Hills, and rivers, lakes, and wetlands, the book is unique and will become a long-lasting source of information. Readers will appreciate the plentiful photographs and other color illustrations.
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• The land, ecosystems, and ecology
• Landscape history
• Climate
• Grasslands
• Agriculture and agroecology
• Trees on the farm
• Upland deciduous forests, woodlands, and parklands
• Ponderosa pine, Pine Ridge, and the Black Hills
• Rivers and riparian ecosystems
• The Missouri River
• Prairie wetlands and lakes
• Buttes, badlands, and sandhills
• Working towards sustainability

An illustrated review of the Northern Great Plains that blends natural history and human history "The most complete, in-depth look at Dakota ecosystems and their history. An absolutely fascinating read!"-Gabe Brown, author of Dirt to Soil W. Carter Johnson and Dennis H. Knight describe the natural and human histories of the Northern Great Plains in this comprehensive and handsomely illustrated book. Covering a vast period of time, they move from geological developments millions of years ago and the effects of glaciers to historical and ecological developments in recent centuries and the effects of agriculture. The book ends with a discussion of the future of this region, mediated by climate change, with recommendations on how to balance agriculture and other pressing needs in the twenty-first century. Johnson and Knight bring decades of experience to chapters on the major ecosystems of the Dakotas. Written for readers with varying backgrounds, and with discussions of the Prairie Pothole Region, the Missouri River, grasslands, woodlands, the Black Hills, and rivers, lakes, and wetlands, the book is unique and will become a long-lasting source of information. Readers will appreciate the plentiful photographs and other color illustrations.
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• Six thousand lessons
• An intimate geography
• An era of emergencies is upon us and we cannot look away
• In memoriam : Wallace Stegner
• Out west
• Landscapes of the shamans
• The invitation
• Afterword : Bob Stephenson
• On the border
• Fourteen aspects of power
• Love in a time of terror
• Southern navigation
• Our frail planet in cold, clear view
• On location
• ¡Nunca más!
• State of mind : threshold
• Missing California
• Madre de Dios
• A scary abundance of water
• Sliver of sky
• The near woods
• Lessons from the river
• River
• Residence
• Deterioration

"This collection represents part of the enduring legacy of Barry Lopez, hailed as a 'national treasure' (Outside) and "one of our finest writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) when he died in December 2020. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty years when it was consumed by wildfire, likely caused by climate change. Fortunately, some of his papers survived, including four never-before published pieces that are gathered here, along with essays written in the final years of his life; these essays appear now for the first time in book form. Written in his signature observant and vivid prose, these essays offer an autobiography in pieces that a reader can assemble while journeying with Lopez along his many roads. They unspool memories at once personal and political, including tender, sometimes painful stories from Lopez's childhood in New York City and California; reports from the field as he accompanies scientists on expeditions to study animals; travels to Antarctica and some of the most remote places on earth; and to life in his own backyard, adjacent to a wild, racing river. He reflects on those who taught him: the Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world--an eye that, as the reader comes to see, missed nothing. And with striking poignancy and searing candor, he confronts the challenges of his last years as he contends with the knowledge of his mortality, as well as with the dangers the Earth--and all of its people--are facing"-- Provided by publisher

• PART ONE PRELUDE
• The Selection of Darwin
• "A Birthday for the Rest of My Life"
• PART TWO THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
• "Like Giving a Blind Man Eyes"
• "Red-Hot with Spiders"
• "Gigantic Land Animals"
• Land of Fire
• "Truly Savage Inhabitants"
• Res Nullius
• El Naturalista Don Carlos
• "Great Monsters"
• The Furies
• "The Very Highest Pleasures"
• "Skating on Very Thin Ice"
• "Eternal Rambling"
• The Enchanted Islands
• Aphrodite's Island
• "Not a Pleasant Place"
• "A Rising Infant"
• "Myriads of Tiny Architects"
• "A Great Name among the Naturalists of Europe"
• PART THREE AFTER THE BEAGLE
• "A Peacock Admiring His Tail"
• "It Is Like Confessing a Murder"
• "Most Hasty and Extraordinary Things"
• "I Shall Be Forestalled"
• Natural Selection
• "The Clerk of the Weather"
• "We Are All Soon to Go"
• Darwin's Legacy
• POSTSCRIPT "Weep for Patagonia."

From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often hard and hazardous conditions, Darwin would make observations and gather samples that would form the basis of his revolutionary theories about the origin of species and natural selection. Drawing on a rich range of revealing letters, diary entries, recollections of those who encountered him, and Darwin's and FitzRoy's own accounts of what transpired, Diana Preston chronicles the epic voyage as it unfolded, tracing Darwin's growth from untested young man to accomplished adventurer and natural scientist in his own right. Darwin often left the ship to climb mountains, navigate rivers, or ride hundreds of miles, accompanied by local guides whose languages he barely understood, across pampas and through rainforests in search of further unique specimens. From the wilds of Patagonia to the Galapagos and other Atlantic and Pacific islands, as Preston vibrantly relates, Darwin collected and contrasted volcanic rocks and fossils large and small, witnessed an earthquake, and encountered the Argentinian rhea, Falklands fox, and Galapagos finch, through which he began to discern connections between deep past and present. Darwin never left Britain again after his return in 1836, though his mind journeyed far and wide to develop the theories that were first revealed, after great delay and with trepidation about their reception, in 1859 with the publication of his epochal book On the Origin of Species. Offering a unique portrait of one of history's most consequential figures, The Evolution of Charles Darwin is a vital contribution to our understanding of life on Earth.
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• Introduction: In pursuit of pleasure
• Part 1: The artist as agent 1. Modernizing Watteau: Marketing luxury in France and Sweden 2. Boucher and the art of Conchyliomanie
• Part 2: The artist as collector 3. Trading places: Boucher as a collector of fine art 4. The business of collecting
• Part 3: The collector as artist 5. A new address: Boucher at the Louvre 6. Boucher's cabinet of natural history 7. The artist inspired: Representing genius and the art of emulation.
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While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist Francois Boucher's artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher's prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher's artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.
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• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• FOREWORD
• CHAPTER 1 NOTHING COULD BE LESS INVITING
• CHAPTER 2 FIRST BY BUCANIERS AND LATTERLY BY WHALERS
• CHAPTER 3 THIS ARCHIPELAGO
• CHAPTER 4 EMINENTLY CURIOUS: CHARLES DARWIN AND THE GALℓPAGOS
• CHAPTER 5 AT LEAST 2000 CRATERS
• CHAPTER 6 THESE GREAT MONSTERS
• CHAPTER 7 HIDEOUS-LOOKING CREATURES
• CHAPTER 8 ALL THE BIRDS WERE SO TAME
• CHAPTER 9 ONE SMALL, INTIMATELY RELATED GROUP OF BIRDS
• CHAPTER 10 SEVERAL HUGE WHALES
• CHAPTER 11 "THE BEAGLE SAILED FOR THE GALℓPAGOS"
• CHAPTER 12 THE ISLANDS AND THEIR LANDING SITES
• Appendix: Names of the Largest Gal̀pagos Islands
• INDEX

A richly illustrated nature tour of Galapagos-now expanded, thoroughly updated, and with more than 650 color photographs Galapagos is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and profusely illustrated natural history of this spectacular archipelago. Offering much more information than identification guides, the book provides detailed accounts and more than 650 color photographs of the islands' habitats, marine life, reptiles, birds, mammals, and plants, making the book a virtual nature tour of Galapagos. Galapagos experts John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin have thoroughly revised the original text, bringing all the taxonomy up to date and adding a wealth of new information. Individual chapters cover geology, ecology, human history, Darwin's finches and how Darwin came to his theory of natural selection from his visit to the islands, Galapagos tortoises, marine and land iguanas, mammals, seabirds, landbirds, marine life, and conservation challenges and initiatives. The concluding chapter covers each of the individual islands, including landing sites, unique plant and animal species, and points of interest, and serves as a wonderful guide for visitors as they move from island to island or plan a trip to Galapagos. With its combination of rich text and splendid photos, Galapagos is essential reading for the ecotraveler and nature enthusiast alike. Now with more than 650 color photographs, showing habitats, geology, marine life, and all the commonly encountered reptiles, birds, mammals, and plants Features a detailed island-by-island guide, including landing sites and what visitors can expect Essential reading for the ecotraveler and nature enthusiast.
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'A generous book, offering the small stories - of childhood, family, place, of growth and falling away and regrowth - that enable the big connections with the flow of the world.' - Mark Goldthorpe, Climate Cultures 'A meander through the seasons that is filled with lyrical gifts and new ways of seeing the world. This is new nature writing - as diverse, original and ceaselessly surprising as the wild world it celebrates.' Patrick Barkham, Natural History correspondent for The Guardian and author of Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature. 'A wonderfully diverse collection of poetry and long-form prose, celebrating the four seasons of the year in a fresh and ultimately life-affirming way.' Stephen Moss 'These essays urgently reimagine what nature writing can be-and whose stories belong in that canon. Gifts of Gravity and Light is generous, unsentimental, and bursting with talented voices that will shape this genre for decades to come.' Jessica J. Lee, author of Two Trees Make a Forest and Turning, and editor of The Willowherb Review *** 'I learned something new from each enjoyable essay and by the end realised that nature is integral to how we live on this planet, not a subsidiary to life, but at the heart of it.' - Bernardine Evaristo The changing seasons of the year are an endless source of strangeness and wonder. Gifts of Gravity and Light invites you to experience Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter through fourteen different voices. Greet the arrival of spring in East London with a Cambodian new year's dance; watch sea otters at play in the summer sun; gather armfuls of hops in a Romany song to the autumn; yield to the icy stillness of winter in the Cairngorms or pine for 'sun drunk' days of a Jamaican childhood. With a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo and contributions from Jackie Kay, Kaliane Bradley, Pippa Marland, Testament, Michael Malay, Tishani Doshi, Jay Griffiths, Luke Turner, Anita Roy, Raine Geoghegan, Zakiya McKenzie, Alys Fowler, Amanda Thomson and Simon Armitage, this almanac reflects not only the diversity of the writers featured, but the endlessly changing natural world itself.
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• Abkürzungen
• Abbildungsnachweis
• Einführung
• Herkunft und Vorfahren
• Schule und Studium (1797-1810)
• Frei praktizierender Arzt in Stuttgart (1811-1812)
• Lehrer am landwirtschaftlichen Institut in Hofwyl (1812-1817)
• Alpenexkursionen und Begegnungen in Genf (1813-1815)
• Wirkungsort Tübingen
• Erster ordentlicher Professor der Naturgeschichte und Botanik in Tübingen (1817-1834)
• Rektor im Sommerhalbjahr 1824
• Vorstand des Botanischen Gartens
• Der Topograph und Geologe
• Die "Charte" und das Relief von Württemberg
• Merkwürdige Gebirgsbildungen : Der "Schwäbische Vulkan"
• Wassersuche : Aufschluss über den Tübinger Untergrund
• Petrefakten und Fossilien
• Der Bodensee und seine Fische
• Autor und "Korrespondent" des Statistisch-topographischen Bureaus
• Der Botaniker
• Der Meteorologe
• Gründer des Meteorologischen Vereins in Württemberg (1824)
• Die Unwetterkatastrophe Ende Oktober, Anfang November 1824
• Meteorologie und Phänologie
• Der Agrarwissenschaftler und Agrikultur-Chemiker
• Gutachter bei Preiswettbewerben
• Im Netzwerk gelehrter Gesellschaften und naturwissenschaftlicher Vereinigungen
• Mitglied der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
• Gustav Schübler und Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius : eine besondere Beziehung
• "Sehr geschickt und ungemein thätig" : Nachrufe und Würdigungen
• Epilog
• Quellen-und Literaturverzeichnis
• Ungedruckte, archivalische Quellen
• Gedruckte Quellen und Literatur
• Veröffentlichungen von Gustav Schübler
• Selbständige Werke
• Beiträge und Kommentare von G. Schübler in Werken anderer Autoren
• Rezensionen
• Von G. Schübler betreute Dissertationen
• Verzeichnis ausgewählter Autographen von Gustav Schübler
• Ausgewählte Autographen von Gustav Schübler
• Register
• Ortsregister
• Personenregister
• Tafelteil

• Trees
• Flowers, fruits & ferns
• Mammals & birds
• The ocean
• The night sky

"An illustrated guide to identifying plants, animals, and constellations in North America"-- Provided by publisher
From its mountains to its ocean shores, from its wetlands to its deserts, North America teams with flora and fauna in delicately balanced ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. The Nature Study Guild invites you to see the natural world in all its intricacy and intense beauty. We cannot hope to protect something without first understanding it, and this guide will help you become a knowledgeable steward of the wild. -- adapted from back cover

A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan's astonishing animals and plants-and the natural forces that have shaped them This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago. It explains how Japan's geology, geography, climate, seas and currents have forged conditions supporting a diverse range of species-from cranes, bears, eagles and monkeys to plants, butterflies, dragonflies, frogs and snakes-many of which are found nowhere else in the world. Engaging and authoritative, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to explore or learn about Japan's natural wonders, from the Japanese Macaque-the famous snow monkeys-to the magnificent Steller's Eagle. Features more than 878 colour photographs, illustrations and maps Provides a lavishly illustrated introduction to many of Japan's common and iconic mammals and birds Takes readers on a naturalist's journey to the key areas of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Nansei Shoto, as well as the Izu, Ogasawara and Iwo islands Introduces Japan's geology, geography, topography, climate, habitats, biodiversity and much more Explains where and how to watch and photograph wildlife in Japan, including whales.
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• I. The Forces that Shape Japan
• Wild Japan in Context
• Along the Arc of Fire
• The Story Begins with the Landscape
• Oceans, Seas and Currents
• Climate
• II. Natural Ecology
• The Habitats of Japan
• The Flora and Vegetation of Japan
• Japan's Biodiversity
• Patterns of Wildlife Distribution
• III. People and Wildlife
• Islands and Extinction
• Conservation Successes
• Wildlife-watching
• IV. The Regions of Japan
• Hokkaidō
• Land of Ice and Snow
• Honshū
• The Heart of Japan
• The Sky Islands at the Heart of Honshū
• Southern Lands
• Kyūshū and Shikoku
• Northern Nansei Shotō
• Southern Nansei Shotō
• The Natural Marvels of the Izu, Ogasawara and Iwō Islands
• V. Mammals and Birds of Japan
• An Overview of Japan's Mammals
• An Overview of Japan's Birds

A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan's astonishing animals and plants-and the natural forces that have shaped them This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago. It explains how Japan's geology, geography, climate, seas and currents have forged conditions supporting a diverse range of species-from cranes, bears, eagles and monkeys to plants, butterflies, dragonflies, frogs and snakes-many of which are found nowhere else in the world. Engaging and authoritative, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to explore or learn about Japan's natural wonders, from the Japanese Macaque-the famous snow monkeys-to the magnificent Steller's Eagle. Features more than 878 colour photographs, illustrations and maps Provides a lavishly illustrated introduction to many of Japan's common and iconic mammals and birds Takes readers on a naturalist's journey to the key areas of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Nansei Shoto, as well as the Izu, Ogasawara and Iwo islands Introduces Japan's geology, geography, topography, climate, habitats, biodiversity and much more Explains where and how to watch and photograph wildlife in Japan, including whales.
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"This monumental book describes and documents one of the most biodiverse temperate mountain ranges on Earth. The Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province of northwest CA and southwest OR. The first comprehensive Natural History written for this region ; 34 contributing authors -- all experts in their fields ; Chapters including Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Plant Communities, First Peoples, Geology, Climate, Fire Ecology, and much more ; Full color, rich illustrations, and well-curated photos bring 496 pages to life"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: The Flying Voles of Gannan and the Challenge of Knowing Manchuria's Natures
• 1 Landscapes of Exile: Nostalgia and Natural History on the Journey to Ningguta
• 2 Where the Dragon Arose: Discovering the Dragon through Number and Blood
• 3 Si(gh)ting the White Mountain: Locating Mount Paektu/Changbai in a Sacred Landscape
• 4 Flowers along the Amur: Making Sense of Plant Diversity on the Amazon of Asia
• 5 Fossils of Empire: The Jehol Biota and the Age of Coal
• 6 Plagueland: Pursuing Yersinia pestis on the Manchurian-Mongolian Grassland
• 7 Scientific Redemption: The Flying Voles of Gannan Revisited
• 8 Reclaimed: Technology and Embodied Knowledge on the Sanjiang Plain Conclusion: A View from the Mountain Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index .
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Making sense of nature in one of the world's most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents of imperialism. Mastery of biology had become a way to claim political mastery over a remote frontier. Beginning with this bizarre incident from the Korean War, Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of a little-known but historically important Asian landscape. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of political control intersected with projects designed to make sense of Manchuria's multiple environments. Covering more than 500,000 square miles, Manchuria's landscapes include temperate rainforests, deserts, prairies, cultivated plains, wetlands, and Siberian taiga. With analysis spanning the seventeenth century to the present day, Ruth Rogaski reveals how an array of historical actors-Chinese poets, Manchu shamans, Russian botanists, Korean mathematicians, Japanese bacteriologists, American paleontologists, and indigenous hunters-made sense of the Manchurian frontier. She uncovers how natural knowledge, and thus the nature of Manchuria itself, changed over time, from a sacred "land where the dragon arose" to a global epicenter of contagious disease; from a tragic "wasteland" to an abundant granary that nurtured the hope of a nation.
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• Introduction: The Flying Voles of Gannan and the Challenge of Knowing Manchuria's Natures
• 1 Landscapes of Exile: Nostalgia and Natural History on the Journey to Ningguta
• 2 Where the Dragon Arose: Discovering the Dragon through Number and Blood
• 3 Si(gh)ting the White Mountain: Locating Mount Paektu/Changbai in a Sacred Landscape
• 4 Flowers along the Amur: Making Sense of Plant Diversity on the Amazon of Asia
• 5 Fossils of Empire: The Jehol Biota and the Age of Coal
• 6 Plagueland: Pursuing Yersinia pestis on the Manchurian-Mongolian Grassland
• 7 Scientific Redemption: The Flying Voles of Gannan Revisited
• 8 Reclaimed: Technology and Embodied Knowledge on the Sanjiang Plain Conclusion: A View from the Mountain Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index .
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Making sense of nature in one of the world's most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents of imperialism. Mastery of biology had become a way to claim political mastery over a remote frontier. Beginning with this bizarre incident from the Korean War, Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of a little-known but historically important Asian landscape. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of political control intersected with projects designed to make sense of Manchuria's multiple environments. Covering more than 500,000 square miles, Manchuria's landscapes include temperate rainforests, deserts, prairies, cultivated plains, wetlands, and Siberian taiga. With analysis spanning the seventeenth century to the present day, Ruth Rogaski reveals how an array of historical actors-Chinese poets, Manchu shamans, Russian botanists, Korean mathematicians, Japanese bacteriologists, American paleontologists, and indigenous hunters-made sense of the Manchurian frontier. She uncovers how natural knowledge, and thus the nature of Manchuria itself, changed over time, from a sacred "land where the dragon arose" to a global epicenter of contagious disease; from a tragic "wasteland" to an abundant granary that nurtured the hope of a nation.
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• Chapter 1 Puget Sound Then and Now
• Chapter 2 Geological Origins of the Puget Sound
• Chapter 3 Water
• Chapter 4 Geomorphology of Puget Sound
• Chapter 5 Early Biology of Puget Sound
• Chapter 6 Humans Arrive
• Chapter 7 Puget Sound Today
• Chapter 8 Biology of Puget Sound
• Chapter 9 Protecting and Restoring Puget Sound
• Chapter 10 Puget Sound in the Future Index.
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The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. The watershed is enormous, covering nearly 43,000 square kilometers with thousands of rivers and streams. Geological forces, volcanos, Ice Ages, and changes in sea levels make the Sound a biologically dynamic and fascinating environment, as well as a productive ecosystem. Human activity has also influenced the Sound. Humans built several major cities, such as Seattle and Tacoma, have dramatically affected the Puget Sound. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future. Key Features Summarizes a complex geological, geographical, and ecological history Reviews how the Puget Sound has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles of various drivers of the Sound's ecosystem function Includes the role of humans-both first people and modern populations. Explores Puget Sound as an example of general bay ecological and environmental issues.
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• Chapter 1 California Then and Now
• Chapter 2 Geological Forces that Built San Diego Bay
• Chapter 3 Water
• Chapter 4 Geomorphology of the San Diego Region
• Chapter 5 Early Biology of the San Diego Region
• Chapter 6 Humans Arrive
• Chapter 7 San Diego Bay Today
• Chapter 8 Biology of the San Diego Bay Region
• Chapter 9 Restoring the Bay
• Chapter 10 Future of the Bay.
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Summarizes a complex geological, geographical and ecological history Reviews how the San Diego Bay has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles a various drivers of Bay ecosystem function Includes the role of humans - both first people and modern populations - on the Bay Explores San Diego Bay as an example of general bay ecological and environmental issues.
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Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents regardless of their background, they posed a significant threat to those who considered themselves to be gatekeepers of elite science, and who in turn used their own periodicals to shape more exclusive communities. Making Entomologists reassesses the landscape of science participation in the nineteenth century, offering a more nuanced analysis of the supposed amateur-professional divide that resonates with the rise of citizen science today. Matthew Wale reveals how an increase in popular natural history periodicals during the nineteenth century was instrumental in shaping not only the life sciences and the field of entomology but also scientific communities that otherwise could not have existed. These publications enabled many actors - from wealthy gentlemen of science to working-class naturalists - to participate more fully within an extended network of fellow practitioners and, crucially, imagine themselves as part of a wider community. Women were also active participants in these groups, although in far smaller numbers than men. Although periodicals of the nineteenth century have received considerable scholarly attention, this study focuses specifically on the journals and magazines devoted to natural history. face=Calibri>.
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