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Foster, David R. Gorton, Wendy Junger, Sebastian. Stager, Curt. Thoreau, Henry David Wessels, TomGorton, Wendy
Summary: The latest entry into the bestselling 50 Hikes with Kids series highlights the most kid-friendly trails in New England. It offers all the basics--maps, length of hike, things to see along the trail--plus fun extras that will foster a curiosity about the region's flora, fauna, and geology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Incorporated 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 GORFoster, David R.
Summary: In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through 19th-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 FOSWessels, Tom
Summary: This is a field guide that residents and visitors, landowners and foresters, students and hikers, and anyone who walks in the woods of the Northeast can use to discern the history of virtually any piece of land. What is the evidence: Are trees old or young? Are they standing or have they fallen? Did they snap mid-trunk or tip up with their roots? What is the human footprint on the land -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.30974 WESStager, Curt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.74 STAThoreau, Henry David
Summary: Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, published here for the first time, draws on Darwin's theory of natural selection to describe plant ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.0467 THOJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: "The perfect storm" is a stark and compelling journey into the dark core of nature that leaves listeners with a breathless sense of what it feels like to be caught, helpless, in the grip of a force beyond understanding or control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 974.45 JUNJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1997