The mountains and foothills of western Maine are a hiker's paradise, featuring some of the finest hiking terrain in the Eastern United States. Join Registered Maine Guide Doug Dunlap on more than two dozen excursions.
Extreme weather events, from bushfires to floods, and sudden geological changes, like earthquakes and tsunamis, have an enormous impact on our planet. In this book, students investigate different examples of extreme weather, focusing on examples from around Australia, and how these events affect living and non-living aspects of the environment.
Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Everglades National Park's death records date back to the early 20th century; all told, hundreds of people have died or are presumed to have died in the park during the first hundred years of its existence. Alligator and panther attacks, encounters with pythons, drownings, plane crashes and ......
"Deep time" is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make the entirety of human existence appear as little more than a footnote. The past few years have seen a boom in texts dedicated to the study of deep time, ......
From the Emerald Northwest to Miami's Biscayne Jewel and Beyond
Everyone knows the beaches of Florida are a top spot for locals and tourists alike, but what many natives or visitors might not know is how intricate each part of Florida's coast is. Broken down into roughly 12 parts, the entire coast of Florid and the Keys offer beachgoers a unique experience at any part of the state. Doug Alderson, popular ......
Dwellings of Enchantment probes literature and cues humans to experience awe, love, and respect for our wonderfully complex, multispecies home. Interweaving new materialist, postcolonial, ecopoetic, ecofeminist, and ecopsychological approaches, it delves into various ontologies, literary modes, and tropes framing our coevolution within the oikos.
A Waterproof Folding Guide to Familiar Animals & Plants
This beautifully illustrated guide to Eastern Seashore Life highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of birds, mammals, nearshore fishes, seashore creatures, seashells and plants and a map featuring wildlife-viewing areas. Laminated for durability, this pocket guide is an ideal source of information for use by visitors and residents.
Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thoug
Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought offers an intellectual journey through the ever-evolving landscapes of environmental discourse. This thought-provoking volume convenes eminent contributors from international scholarship to scrutinize and illuminate the contemporary trends reshaping our ......
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives contains 15 essays that approach contemporary literary and cultural representations of ecological disaster in India from various theoretical angles. The studies engage with many of today's pressing ecological issues by carefully examining these diverse texts.
