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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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White man bad, capitalism bad
- De Forget about it en 04-15-21
De: Timothy Egan
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- De: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crucial solutions
- De Shane Emanuelle en 07-25-19
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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The Quiet World
- Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 23 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
A riveting history of America's most beautiful natural resources, The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save wild Alaska - ;Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach national forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and the Coastal Plain of the Beaufort Sea, among other treasured landscapes - from the extraction industries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Where are Native Alaskans?
- De Peggy en 11-13-14
De: Douglas Brinkley
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
- De: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrado por: Rick Ridgeway
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 302
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 270
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his listeners to do the final sort of which is which.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The hypocrisy and boasting ego. Blood boiling.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-30-21
De: Rick Ridgeway
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Northland
- A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
- De: Porter Fox
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Travel writer Porter Fox spent two years exploring its length by canoe, freighter, and car - and in Northland, he delivers the little-known history of the region and a riveting account of his travels. Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain's adventures; recounts the rise and fall of the iron, wheat, and timber industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and tracks America's fur traders through the Boundary Waters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen - great narrator
- De Jonathan en 01-10-19
De: Porter Fox
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In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond
- In Search of the Sasquatch
- De: John Zada
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. The area plays host to a wide range of species, from thousand-year-old western cedars to humpback whales to iconic white Spirit bears. According to local residents, another giant is said to live in these woods.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a relatable book
- De RJK en 07-14-19
De: John Zada
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Engineering Eden
- The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
- De: Jordan Fisher Smith
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
When 25-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting true story, well performed
- De Kerry Cox en 04-07-20
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
- Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
- De: Miriam Horn
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25
Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work - restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans - would not call themselves environmentalists; they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land - the iconic terrain where explorers and cowboys, pioneers, and riverboat captains forged the American identity. They feel a moral responsibility to preserve this heritage and natural wealth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great stories
- De GMMT en 05-15-18
De: Miriam Horn
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Windfall
- The Booming Business of Global Warming
- De: McKenzie Funk
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces. The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland - and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unintended windfalls mixed with obvious perils
- De Andy en 02-09-14
De: McKenzie Funk
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The Open-Air Life
- Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day
- De: Linda Åkeson Mcgurk
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces listeners to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones’ time outdoors. An outdoorsy cousin of hygge, friluftsliv is what Nordic people do outside all day before they cozy up in front of the fireplace with their wool socks on and a cup of hot cocoa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The freedom of an open air life
- De Anna Arnold en 03-18-24
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Secrets of the Savanna
- Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
- De: Mark Owens, Delia Owens
- Narrado por: Donna Postel, Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and - in the end - themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population’s recovery after poaching, discovering remarkable similarities between humans and elephants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A vivid view of the savanna in Africa, culture and wildlife!
- De Kd en 09-12-20
De: Mark Owens, y otros
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In Search of the Canary Tree
- The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
- De: Lauren E. Oakes
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving and inspiring
- De Catherine A Gould en 05-26-19
De: Lauren E. Oakes
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Reservation Restless
- De: Jim Kristofic
- Narrado por: Jim Kristofic
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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In the powerful and haunting lands of the Southwest, rainbows grow unexpectedly from the sky, mountain lions roam the desert, and summer storms roll over the Colorado River. As a park ranger, Kristofic explores the Ganado valley, traces the paths of the Anasazi, and finds mythic experiences on sacred mountains that explain the pain and loss promised for every person who decides to love. After reconnecting with his Navajo sister and brother, Kristofic must confront his own nightmares of the Anglo society and the future it has created.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is a gift to see the world through Jim's eyes
- De Josh Boyle en 06-23-21
De: Jim Kristofic
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Lasso the Wind
- Away to the New West
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator mispronounces everything
- De Catherine en 01-27-22
De: Timothy Egan
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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The Hour of Land
- A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
- De: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrado por: Terry Williams
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 261
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It could have been good.
- De udzuzu en 04-14-18