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This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive.

'Such a simple, clever book.' Rosemary Goring, The Herald We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding...

Tornadoes. Whirlwinds. Earthquakes. Volcanoes. Just some of what nature can throw at us and make us need to bug out of our homes. Fast. It is an unfortunate but true enough event that sometimes people have to abandon their homes for short periods before they are allowed to return. The most frequent reason for such an incident is a natural disaster like a tornado, a whirlwind, an earthquake, or a flood.

‘When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip away.’ As a young boy in 1960s Plymouth, Allan...

The Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, and maybe even in the world. This is the dramatic true story of its remarkable leader, Wolf 21 - whose compassion and loyalty challenges commonly held beliefs about alpha males.

Richard Mabey is Britain’s foremost nature writer. He has written a regular column for BBC Wildlife Magazine for over 25 years and, in doing so, has created a passionate, lyrical and deeply personal record of the natural world

From the Award Winning Author Heinrich Wilson. The most disturbing experiment in the history of behavioral science. Retold. Expanded. And aimed directly at you. In 1968, scientist John B. Calhoun built a paradise for mice. Unlimited food. Unlimited water. No predators. No disease. No struggle. He introduced eight mice and watched. They thrived. Then they broke. Violence without cause. Mothers killing their young. Males withdrawing from existence. And the beautiful ones, flawless, empty mice who groomed their perfect fur while the colony died around them. Every mouse perished.

Originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation and wildly acclaimed on it's release, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is perhaps Jules Verne most well known title. The world is abuzz with tales of a...

When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand: He stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades and two continents, the young man took a vow of silence that endured for 17 years.  

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this...

Following a game warden’s adventures from the woods of Maine to the swamps of New Orleans as he and his canine companions investigate murder, search for missing persons, and rescue survivors from natural disasters, this is a memoir that reads like a true crime novel. A Good Man with a Dog explores Roger Guay’s life as he and his canine partners are exposed to terrible events, from tracking down hostile poachers to searching for victims of violent crimes,  

数式とは、森羅万象をもっとも正確に、もっともシンプルに、もっとも奥深く記述できる「神様の言語」。それは、天才科学者たちが人生をかけて発見した人類の宝物でもある。

From mammals with built-in armor to those with abilities that seem out of this world, this book uncovers the weirdest and most wonderful traits you never knew existed.

20 JAHRE LAUT FÜR ERNEUERBARE Einblicke, Anekdoten und Ausblicke aus 20 Jahren Agenturgeschichte Anlässlich des Agentur-Jubiläums blicken Agenturchefin Iris Krampitz und PR-Assistentin Frederieke Ressel – in diesem dreiteiligen Podcast zurück auf zwei Jahrzehnte Pressearbeit für Unternehmen aus den Bereichen Erneuerbare Energien und Technologie. Sie teilen persönliche Erinnerungen, kleine Anekdoten aus dem Agenturalltag und ihre Erfahrungen mit einem sich rasant verändernden Markt. Dabei geht es um Trends, Herausforderungen, überraschende Entwicklungen und die besonderen ...

For over a quarter century, biologist Mark J. Rauzon has worked in the field of island restoration, traveling throughout the American Insular Pacific to eradicate invasive plants and animals introduced by humans. The region spans from Hawai'i to Samoa to Guam, and their neighbors - small, obscure, tropical islands that are hundreds if not thousands of nautical miles from each other. These little-known US possessions and territories include various islands and atolls: Jarvis, Howland, Baker, the Northern Marianas, Wake, Palmyra, Johnston, and Rose Atoll, among others.

Wie überstehen wir diese Krise? Was kann ein einzelner Mensch tun, um sein Leben auch in Krisenzeiten zu bereichern und zu verbessern? Wie wenden wir das Blatt zum Guten, um die maximale Lebensqualität zurückzugewinnen? Dies sind die Fragen, die wir uns alle gerade stellen und mit seinem Hörbuch liefert Bestsellerautor Michael Leister Antworten und simple Lösungsansätze. Freundschaftlich, humorvoll, aber auch gnadenlos ehrlich packt er Lösungen an, anstatt nur über Probleme zu debattieren.

Let your imagination grow and prepare for a thrilling silvan adventure in this remarkable multi-genre collection of tree stories. Look out for love and loss, brace for dystopia and utopia, and jump forwards and backwards in time, but beware as you follow the path through the dark forest, nature can have a sting in its tale.

The audiobook Warden Force: Grim Witness and Other True Game Warden Adventures is a collection of short stories, the true adventures of some of the toughest, most dedicated, and courageous protectors of wildlife in the world and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue.

The Power of Dreams tells the story of a couple, already in their 40s, who uprooted themselves from urban life to follow their dream of living in the wilderness. They settled in a remote mountain valley called Precipice Valley, part of the ancient trade route linking B.C.’s Chilcotin plateau to the Pacific Coast. These are the stories of how the two of them designed and hand-built a solar-powered, two-story post-and-beam house while learning to live off-grid and in harmony with nature.

This is an audiobook for those who want to know what to do when they have 24 hours or less before a disaster strikes. It contains suggestions and tips that you should consider in order to be safe and secure in the 24 hours that you have before disaster hits the part of the city that you live in.