St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1998. Paperback. 7 x 10, 122 pgs, b&w and color photos. Celebrates the prairie and parkland resource in the Red River region connecting threads between ecology, economy and community. More
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 270 pgs, index, appendices. Biography of Ernest O. Thompson, known as the father of petroleum conservation. Front fly torn and missing a chunk. More
New York: Hafner, 1963. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 390 pgs, index, b&w and color illustrations. A proven field guide to the flowering plants and shrubs of the Rocky Mountain Region. Very detailed. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1997. Hardcover. 9 1/2 x 12, 256 pgs, color photos from the Imax movie throughout, introduction by Tim Cahill, afterword by David Brashears. A first hand account from the team who made the Everest IMAX film and also became involved in the mountain's most tragic events of May 1996. More
Australia: Sorrett Publishing, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 10 1/2, 208 pgs, index, b&w and color photos and illustrations. An interesting look at the vast minerals of Australia. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1959. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, 683 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. Covers all species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, food & game fishes, seashells, and the principal marine invertebrates occurring annually in North America east of the Rockies and north of the 37th parallel. More
Baltimore, MD: Waverly Press, 1938. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 244 pgs, b&w photos and charts. The author and her husband were avid bird watchers and banders. This is the record of their activities from 1923-1925. Ex-library. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 7, 275 pgs, b&w illustrations and a section of color photos. All about how to identify the most common flower species in the Rocky Mountain region, plus interesting facts about each. More
New York: Norton, 2001. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 442 pgs, index, notes. In this scientific meditation on and spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated natural resources - the Atlantic Ocean - the author weaves the details of the history and science of the Atlantic into... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1985. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 199 pgs, index, color plates throughout. From Vancouver Island to Baja California, around the Gulf of Mexico and from Florida to Maine, the shore life, the human visitors and the environment. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1986. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 200 pgs, index, color photos throughout. From disaster areas to high-tech laboratories, from ancient times to the present, a gripping, sometimes terrifying journey. More
Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Assn. 1990. Paperback. 6 x 9, 60 pgs, color photos. An easy reference to fifty of themore commonly seen species in the Southwest. More
New York: Macmillan, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10 1/2, 140 pgs, index, notes, color photos throughout. The result of a five year stint in the Arctic, studying the Polar Bear, rearing orphaned cubs, and recording the Eskimo lore concerning these noble animals. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 198 pgs, color photos throughout. A continent-by-continent guide to threatened indigenous ways of living. More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 198 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Ever since Louis Pasteur published his theories on the origin of germs, scientists the world over have focused their attention on smaller and smaller organisms. This book brings together some of... More
New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. 12 x 11, 180 pgs, beautiful color art reproductions. A beautiful coffee-table style book celebrates the life and talent of this well-known naturalist/artist. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 330 pgs, b&w photos. In the early 1960s, R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were... More
Globe, AZ: Southwestern Monuments Association, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 112 pgs, b&w illustrations. Covers common desert flowers of the Southwest; how to identify them, how they are and have been used by animals, native people and settlers, etc. Very worn cover. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1970. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 433 pgs, index. A comprehensive text on the geology and anthropology of the Central Great Plains. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1979. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 10 1/2 x 9, 288 pgs, index, color photos throughout. A look at America's lands, past and present, from the view of ecologists. Covers changing American conceptions, the forces that shaped the continent, the ecosystems, the people and natural forces that have changed it and more. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 290 pgs, b&w illustrations, endsheets decorated with maps. Eleven famous wilderness areas, from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the Baboquivari of Arizona, to the Everglades in Florida and the Katahdin of Maine, from the eye of this famous naturalist. More
New York: Greystone Press, 1953. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 140 pgs, b&w and color photos. The strange and wonderful ways of mammals. More
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1978. Hardcover. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2, 220 pgs, b&w illustrations/leaf prints by David S. Marx. Tells about plants used in herbal medicine, edible plants, plants which produce usable fibers and natural dyes, plants which provide protective cover for wildlife, hazardous plants, and more. More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 290 pgs, index, b&w and color photos throughout. Provides a richly descriptive picture of the Arctic region, showing why the relatively sudden and accelerating development of its land, sea, and air spaces is of enormous consequences for... More
New York: Rand McNally, 2001. Third printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 377 pgs, b&w photos. The story of the author's travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. More