books about: countryside     books:     Countryside      Kids' Easy-to-Create Wildlife Habitats: For Small Spaces in City-Suburbs-Countryside (Quick Starts for Kids!) Emily Stetson Williamson Books, 2004 Guess what? Make a Difference! Your efforts even very small efforts to attract and protect wildlife can make a difference to many kinds of critters. Habitat loss affects all animals not just rare, endangered species. You don't have to have a big yard or even any yard at all to make a welcoming place for wildlife!             Village in a Valley (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy) Beverley Nichols Timber Press, Incorporated, 2005 VILLAGE IN A VALLEY I was a bit disappointed in this book - Beverley seems to have not been as interested in his subject as he was in the other 2 books of this trilogy, and he became quite morbid in the last section. Perhaps he was in a hurry to get the book finished, or wasn't well at ...             A Year In The Maine Woods Bernd Heinrich Da Capo Press, 1995 Bernd Heinrich does it again I've read several of Heinrich's books and have never been disappointed. Some reviewers compare him to Thoreau, favorably or not. While in certain places he does evoke thoughts of Thoreau, that is not what he is trying to do, contrary to what some reviewers seem to ...             A Gift from Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside Marjorie Price Gotham, 2008 A tale from the heart This is a wonderful story of the coming together of cultures and generations. I woman finds herself abandoned in a foreign land, without friends or resources, yet her own love for others provides the friendship and support she needs. She learns to find love right where ...             Thatched Roof (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy) Beverley Nichols Timber Press, Incorporated, 2005 A Thatched Roof - Book 2 of the Allways Trilogy Delightful reading by a wonderful writer. Although Nichols claim to fame is that of a garden writer, this book spends less time gardening (than the first) and more time repairing, and discovering his cottage at Allways. Nevertheless, whether read by a gardener or ...             The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in ... Adam Rome Cambridge University Press, 2001 Will we ever see an end to Septic Tank Suburbia? Not many Environmenal Health Specialists like myself will probably ever read this book (or even the chapter 'Septic Tank Suburbia'), but they should. Sanitarians, the old term for health inspectors, have approved a crap-load of septic systems serving sprawl ...             The Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside Laura L. Williams Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 Love - very rarely does it happen with nothing else happening Love - very rarely does it happen with nothing else happening, as romance novels wrongly lead people to believe. "The Stork's Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside" is the story of Laura Lynne Williams, who made a trip to the hugely expansive wilderness of ...             The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside Amanda Hesser W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 Great addition to a delightful Genre. A foodie must read. `The Cook and the Gardner' by the young culinary journalist who has added a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of seasonal cooking and gardening to that very small niche of books joining horticulture with gastronomy. The only other recent volume in this very small corner ...             Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies Editors of Storey Publishing's Country Wisdom Bulletins Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2008 A follow-up to Black Dog's bestselling Country Wisdom and Know-How , the Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more. Divided into the four seasons and then ...             Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England Tom Wessels Countryman, 2005 reading the forested landscape I have grown up in new england and studied the biological sciences for 20 years and Tom Wessel knowledge and wonderful insight to the natural world is amazing. the book is a wonderful read and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the outdoors and natures beauty.             Tucker's Countryside George Selden, Garth Williams Yearling, 1989 Awesome work Except for Charlotte's Web, this is perhaps the best young person's book in existence. The narrative makes you visualize so thoroughly you will be left with the feeling that you have seen a movie. Don't miss this book!             The Bay (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) Gilbert C. Klingel The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984 What a gem of a book! An entire ecosystem is revealed in this work; a look inside a true "natural wonder", the Chesapeake Bay. I picked up this nature/local interest book at a small store on Smith Island, Maryland, and began reading it on the boat trip back to Crisfield. I found "The ...             The Grand Canyon and the Southwest Ansel Adams Bulfinch, 2000 Love this book! First book I have looked at by Ansel Adams. There are a few Grand Canyon pictures in here and other southwest pictures. Also included are some letters he wrote.             Walking the World in Wonder: A Children's Herbal Ellen Evert Hopman Healing Arts Press, 2000 A Must Have Book! This is definitely a must have book for any family who does herbal medicine- Pagan or not! I was so excited to see the Wheel of the Year described. Each description is in very easy to read language for the children, yet offers valuable information. Plainly put, the ...             Teewinot: Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range Jack Turner St. Martin's Griffin, 2001 Thoughtful Mix of Philosophy and Climbing Stories In twelve chapters Jack Turner has compiled a representative year in the Tetons, an impressionistic collage of his twenty-two years as a mountain guide in the Grand Teton National Park. His account begins not on January 1, but on the first day of the month of May, the ...          products you might be interested in search for books city-suburbs-countryside, contemplating, countryside, easy-to-create, environmentalism, improvements we recommend Awesome work randomly chosen DVD: WWE WrestleMania XIX