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1) Mountain
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Looks at several life forms that live in three different mountain environments, including mammals, birds, and insects, focusing on their life cycles and their place in the food chain.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives-- and the entirety of human history-- are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains...
Author
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs is the culmination of a 70-year career of first ascents and features compelling writing about the mountains and mountain life. Includes route tips, natural history, and climbing lore. Filled with hand-drawn climbing topos, photos, narrative description, side notes and 40 extra climbs of note in each of the eight geographical regions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mikaya Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Geology is thrilling. It's the Earth in all its splendor. Unfortunately, geology texts rarely communicate that sense of excitement. Enter Michael Collier, geologist, writer and one of America's premier aerial photographers. For over 20 years, he has piloted his Cessna 180 to inaccessible locations and returned with stunning photographs that lay bare the Earth's workings. Over the Mountains, the first book in Michael Collier's new series, focuses...
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