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BELGIUM

A Worldly Art

Mariet Westermann

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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Great Migrations

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Great Migrations

Great Migrations

by K.M. Kostyal

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 304 PAGES

This companion book to the National Geoghraphic series captures the drama of not just the Africa plains but of diverse creatures from butterflies and crabs to penguins and whales on the move across land and sea. (BST162, $35.00)

Mariposa Road

Mariposa Road

by Robert Michael Pyle

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 512 PAGES

A man, a 1982 Honda Civic and a mission: to see as many butterflies as he can in a year. The affable Robert Michael Pyle sets out from his home in Oregon on New Year's Day, visiting friends and fellow lepidopterists -- and netting butterflies from the beaches of California to the Arctic Tundra and Key West. (NAM55, $27.00)

The Migration of Birds, Seasons on the Wing

The Migration of Birds, Seasons on the Wing

by Janice M. Hughes

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 208 PAGES

Hughes includes cranes and phalaropes, shrikes and Arctic terns, wheatears and dippers, redwings, fieldfares and the Bohemian waxwing in this popular, beautifully illustrated guide to bird migration. (BRD77, $40.00)

Thousand-Mile Song

Thousand-Mile Song

by David Rothenberg

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Musician-naturalist Rothenberg jams with cetaceans from the Caribbean to the Arctic in this exuberant chronicle of the rich underwater universe of whales. Audio CD included. (NAT144, $18.00)

On This Earth, Photographs from East Africa

On This Earth, Photographs from East Africa

by Nick Brandt

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 129 PAGES

Brandt's haunting duotone portraits depict the majesty of elephants, antelope, cats and wildlife on the plains of Kenya and Tanzania. (EAF358, $40.00)

 
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd

Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd


by Karsten Heuer

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 237 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Heuer's account of a season following the migrating caribou from their winter feeding grounds to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (ALA229, $15.00)

Living on the Wind

Living on the Wind


by Scott Weidensaul

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 420 PAGES

Weidensaul criss-crosses the continents on the trail of various migrating shorebirds, warblers, hawks and other birds in this wide-ranging, evocative report from the field. (BRD10, $17.00)

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