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Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
Gary Paul Nabhan

Shearwater, 2008

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country?s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural ...

Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore

1 review
Nancy Lord

Shearwater Books, 1997

Travel to Alaska for under $30. Read this book.
I'm an admitted sucker for nature writing and natural history, but am often disappointed in what I find out there. Not so with Fishcamp. This is that one-in-a-thousand book that I've longed for since first reading Walden twenty years ago. Ms. Lord writes beautifully of her day-to-day life fishing with her partner on Cook Inlet. And the stories and legends of the Dena'ina people, as well as the ...

The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America

12 reviews
H. Bruce Franklin

Shearwater, 2008

Wow! Who knew?! Maybe menhaden ARE the most important fish in the sea...at least along the Atlantic seaboard.
Franklin weaves a compelling tale that includes the biology, natural history, fishery development, politics, and ecological significance of menhaden to marine communities along the Atlantic seaboard of North America. Menhaden are unusual fish. They are filter-feeders that can strain phytoplankton, tiny free-floating photosynthtic organisms, out of the water. That diet causes menhaden to ...

Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed

5 reviews
Alan Rabinowitz

Shearwater, 2008

Awesome account of getting stuff done in Burma
While there has been a lot of criticism of Alan Rabinowitz's efforts in Myanmar, this book should put them to rest. Rabinowitz makes clear his desire to incorporate local stakeholders in the Hukawng Tiger Reserve and give them a surprisingly open voice in an otherwise closed society. Moreover, he makes a good argument that the reserve will bring aid and funds directly to villagers in northern ...

High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health

5 reviews
Elizabeth Grossman

Shearwater, 2007

An environmentalist with a sense of optimism
An eye opening account of just how much raw material it takes to make your favorite electronic gizmos and what can be done to reduce their environmental footprint. Normally books like this come off as scathing polemics; however, Grossman does an excellent job of explaining why things are the way they are, what recycling methods are working, and what can be done better. Perhaps the saddest fact ...

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction

13 reviews
Terry Tamminen

Shearwater, 2008

A Must Read for Citizens Concerned about Our Energy Future
Terry Tamminen has seen the ravages of big oil first hand in many places around the world. A skilled and engaging writer, he weaves his experiences into a compelling narrative that includes a lot of well documented research to make the case that the world must end its dependence on fossil energy in general and oil in particular. In his former role as California's Secretary of the Environment, ...

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac

1 review
Julianne Lutz Newton

Shearwater, 2008

A surprising, penetrating, lyrical study
Readers who think they know Leopold, whether from his classic A Sand County Almanac or from earlier writings about him, are in for a real surprise. We see here, far better than ever before, the science underlying Leopold's conservation thought; he was at the forefront of ecology, not merely a consumer of it. Even more, we see how Leopold moved step by step to the (for him) painful realization ...

Bible Chasherick yn Lught Thie. The Manx Family Bible.
in Manx language Bible

Shearwater Press, 1979

(Bible, in Manx). Bible Chasherick yn Lught Thie. The Manx Family Bible. Isle of Man: Shearwater Press, 1979. Very good in dust jacket. This is a reprint of the 1819 Manx Bible and has a modern introduction by the Celtic scholar, Robert Thomson of the University of Leeds