Wild about History

Wild pigs inhabit vast areas in Europe, Southern Asia and Africa, and have been introduced in North and South America, while feral pigs are widespr...

Reducere. Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. Davi...

Anaconda tells the unexpected story of the world's largest snake. Written by Jes�s Rivas, the undisputed expert on the biology of anacondas, this i...

Reducere. DescriptionChapters include Birds, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, and Wild. There is information about breeds, their history, and what they eat and how it af...

Reducere. Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fa...

This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs of gorgeous pieces from a collection assembled by songwrit...

Reducere. Written by a team of experts and featuring hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, the most authoritative, up-to-date, and accessible inf...

Reducere. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

Reducere. An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictiv...

Reducere. The 1978 classic on man and nature returns in this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, featuring a new afterword that assesses how far we've ...

Reducere. Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), an accomplished writer and director of television westerns, did not attract media attention until the release of his sec...

Reducere. 'Finding Ireland' is an introduction to the North-West of Ireland, with beautiful photographs of the landscapes of the counties of Donegal, Sligo, ...

Donnie Iris and the Cruisers are the best-kept secret from the golden age of FM radio. The band of brothers have been gigging continuously since 19...

Reducere. A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singu...

Reducere. In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who foug...

Reducere. "Nearly seventy-five years of my lifetime have come and gone since hearing of the sparse historical events from the old-timers, " American Indian e...

Look for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, with The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts February 21st 2017The Legend of Zelda(TM) Ar...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered if you could eat the mushrooms you see on your hike? Do you ever wish you could live off the land a bit more? Have you ever ...

Bovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive field g...

Reducere. Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring field guid...

Reducere. In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in...

Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars, " due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that pe...

In the early months of 2020, the world's attention was riveted on Australia, where the nation's iconic wildlife fought for survival in the face of ...

Reducere. Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked fo...

Britain's shallow seas are a mysterious domain. They remain largely unseen and unexplored except by marine scientists and divers, who have been doc...

Reducere. In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukrai...

Reducere. Common and uncommon tree species described in engaging detailCovers trees found in small woodlots, deep forests, backyards, and reverting fieldsWit...

Description"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the s...

Reducere. "Disturbing and riveting...Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true...It will se...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sophie WhiteBased on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians ex...

Reducere. Venture off the beaten path to forgotten roads, where a hidden South Carolina exists. Time-travel and dead-end at a ferry that leads to wild island...

Reducere. Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS ""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written,...

Reducere. BEAST-GOD VERSUS APE-MAN The year was 1933. Filmmaker Carl Denham had captured the stupendous monster he had dubbed "King" Kong. But that was only ...

Reducere. Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted...

Reducere. "Cuentos Tejanos" is a recounting of stories, legends, and people who helped forge the personality and character of the State of Texas, in particul...

Reducere. This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato - Aristotle ...

The earth explodes in shoots of hot magma, glaciers crash into the ocean, grotesque creatures lurk in deep caves... follow noted National Geographi...

Reducere. Think about the most romantically notorious Wild West town you ever heard of, and most likely Deadwood would head the list. Deadwood has more than ...

Reducere. East Lake View is one of Chicago s most popular neighborhoods. But what exactly is East Lake View? It is Wrigleyville, Boystown, and Belmont Harbor...

Reducere. California was a wild and lawless place in the 1850s, and San Luis Obispo County was no exception. Outlaws and bandits passed along the El Camino R...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100, 000 copies in its first month, an...

Reducere. The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created...

Reducere. "So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. " --Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost ...

Reducere. "Disturbing and riveting...Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true...It will se...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NealMuch information (some of it factual, a lot of it fictional) is available about the famous gunfighters of the Ol...

Reducere. Spur AwardsEveryone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as a...

Reducere. America's favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix tv show.When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance...

Reducere. A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving...

Reducere. In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare f...

Reducere. In Standoff at High Noon, the sequel to Old West Showdown, coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controvers...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first-ever guide to the most ostentatious and over-the-top homes in rock 'n' roll history. You can tell a lot about people from the ...

"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless."Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and...

DescriptionIn this beautifully illustrated book, author Joe McDonald presents a wealth of knowledge pertaining to the natural history of mountain g...

Reducere. The sixteenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series follows sharpshooter Annie Oakley as she tours Europe and discovers u...

Reducere. As the First Family sleeps, something spooky goes bump in the night. History knows the White House as the symbol of the American presidency. Could ...

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsMr. and Mrs. Darcy have an exceedingly passionate marriage in this continuing saga of one of the most exciting, in...

Reducere. This full-color field guide is an indispensable companion to the most popular neotropical ecotourism destination: Costa Rica. Featuring all the mam...

Reducere. Few western American have been more often written about than William F. Cody, the "Buffalo Bill" of history, the dime novel, and popular lore. Ther...

Reducere. Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild woman. In the corner of a library, in a dusty stack...

Reducere. "These poems know a great deal about beauty and violence: 'twenty years / was about as much good as / circling / a black eye'. Kylie Gellatly shows...

DescriptionFrom Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the gla...

Reducere. The Ultimate Bushcraft Survival Guide"If you are serious about survival, this book is required reading." ―Alan Kay, winner of Alone, season 1 (Hist...

Reducere. The concept of 'food as medicine' is rooted in our most ancient of traditions, including Greek, Indian and Chinese medicine. If we consider the ant...

Discover the maritime and human history of Florida's 30 awe-inspiring lighthouses along the East Coast, through the Keys, and up the west coast to ...

Reducere. The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New...

Reducere. Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa's most important oral histori...

Reducere. Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventure...

Reducere. DescriptionLawyer-turned-writer Anne Meadows and her husband, Dan Buck, set out to solve the mystery of what really happened to Butch Cassidy and t...

Have you ever wondered if plants could help improve your allergy symptoms? Have you studied foraging, but you're looking to learn more about edible...