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Ready to push your limits and live on the edge? Adventure Travel: Thrilling Destinations for the Adrenaline Junkie takes you straight into the heart-pounding world of extreme sports and epic journeys. From skydiving over the Swiss Alps to surfing monster waves in Bali, this audiobook is your all-access pass to the world’s most thrilling adventure spots.

While many falconry books briefly touch on the ethics of the sport, “The Philosophy & Ethics of Falconry” is entirely dedicated to addressing the chief ethical and philosophical questions at the heart of falconry. Listeners, whether they are aspiring, new, or experienced falconers (or simply someone intrigued by this unique method of hunting) will be introduced to several philosophical traditions and what wisdom they have to offer for falconry.

Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes listeners on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada.

Reaching the top of the world in 1953 was one of the most significant achievements in the history of human endurance.

From the 1948 US edition: This is the story of the most publicized jungle animal that ever lived. In his best-selling Man-Eater's of Kumaon, Jim Corbett told of his battles with many man-eating tigers. In this book he tells a sustained and climactic story of his hard-won battle with a single leopard. Leopards very rarely become man-eaters, but those few that do are the peers of the man-eating tigers in ferocity and possess an even greater cunning.

Nature provides us with many examples of the best ways to set goals, solve problems and set ourselves up for success. “Winning With The Wild Life” is a compilation of true stories of hunting and outdoor adventures that are each told to make a point about living a good and positive life. A case is made for the hunter-provider as a conservationist with specific historical and modern examples of the positive impacts outdoorsmen and women are making on our wildlife and our wild lands.

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship.

The roots of today's environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity's past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer's Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the dangers posed by the destruction of the natural landscape. Underlying Homer's account of brutal military operations, alliances, and cataclysmic struggle is a palpable understanding that the direction in which humanity was headed could create a world that was uninhabitable.

In Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson shares his deep belief that the natural world isn’t just beautiful—it speaks to our hearts and souls. He reminds us that when life feels noisy or confusing, nature can bring us peace, clarity, and a sense of connection to something greater

Freeze up in a crisis? Panic in the unknown? Doubt your ability to lead yourself or others through chaos? The truth is, most survival books focus on gear and techniques—but forget the most important tool of all: your mind. Mental breakdowns—not broken equipment—are what get people killed in survival scenarios.

Unlock the mysteries of the cosmos from your own backyard with "Building a Low-Cost Radio Telescope." This comprehensive eBook invites hobbyists, science enthusiasts, and curious minds to delve into the fascinating world of radio astronomy with a practical, hands-on approach. Embark on an astronomical adventure that demystifies the allure of invisible radio waves and their celestial sources, revealing how they help us explore the universe. Begin your journey by understanding the fundamentals of radio waves and their propagation through the vastness of space. From there, discover the ...

This treatise is the second installment of the Theological Threads series. This volume investigates how humans relate to nature. Specifically, it looks at how humans relate to wildlife in the United States. Two questions are answered: What is the human orientation to animals? and How should Christians treat wildlife? Taking a biblical approach to the issue, a logical argument is uncovered and extrapolated to the circumstances in contemporary U.S.

Esta provocadora pregunta es el núcleo de Creadores de tormentas, un análisis profundo sobre las teorías de la conspiración relacionadas con la manipulación climática, la geoingeniería y las tecnologías que, según algunos, ya están cambiando nuestro mundo. Desde las afirmaciones sobre programas militares secretos como HAARP hasta la posibilidad de que el clima se esté utilizando como arma de guerra, este libro explora la intersección entre la ciencia, la especulación y el ocultismo gubernamental.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATION 224 How might we develop our spirituality in the context of an environmental crisis that demands changes to our individual and communal ways of life? There is a challenge to develop our inherited patterns of spiritual life in the current ecological context. This book aims to reflect on the Christian contemplative tradition in dialogue with writings of the leading nature writer, Robert Macfarlane. The argument is that each of his six books can be seen as nurturing a particular spiritual practice. In this, Macfarlane’s focus on interactions between landscapes and the ...

In Crisis on Mount Hood, author and emergency room doctor Christopher Van Tilburg looks at the history of America's oldest all-volunteer mountain rescue team, the Hood River Crag Rats, and his own three-decade commitment to search and rescue. Centered on Oregon's iconic 11,249-foot-high Mount Hood, considered by many to be the world's most-climbed glaciated peak, this dramatic narrative leads listeners through a century of life-and-death challenges.

Dr Rosa is no stranger to the Amazon. Growing up with the rainforest as her back garden, she learnt the lessons of the rainforest from her grandmother, a native healer in natural medicine. In this debut, you'll learn about Dr Rosa's journeys in the Amazon: her treacherous encounters with a boiling river, her conservation work with stingless bees, her experience of taking ayahuasca as a natural psychedelic—and all the amazing biodiversity of the rainforest.

Wasserman's ninth book dives into the gritty world of Pennsylvania game wardens battling poachers and wildlife lawbreakers, from the rugged north woods to Philadelphia's urban core. Join five game wardens as they share twelve thrilling, true stories—some spanning over sixty years—packed with high-stakes pursuits and volatile outlaws. Wasserman’s sharp dialogue and vivid storytelling bring every character to life, making this his most gripping collection yet.

Employing in-depth reporting on cutting edge science and technology, veteran journalist Thomas E. Weber takes us on a tour of how meteorologists, scientists, and officials track and prepare for major weather events. As climate change is altering our planet and making weather events more extreme, Weber introduces us to those on the front lines of weather preparation and prediction.

Shifting Sands is about that other Sahara, not the empty wasteland of the romantic imagination but the vast and highly differentiated space in which Saharan peoples and, increasingly, new arrivals from other parts of Africa live, work, and move. It takes us from the ancient Roman Empire through the bloody colonial era to the geopolitics of the present, questioning easy clichés and exposing fascinating truths along the way.

In 2011, a wolf named Slavc left his home territory of Slovenia for a wide-ranging journey across the Alps. Tracked by a GPS collar, he traveled over 1,200 miles, where he would mate with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own—the only two wolves for hundreds of square miles—and start the first pack to call the Italian Alps home in more than a century. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting.