Category - History
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The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor LiteratureFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod-the irresistible story of the science, h...
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Reading the Signs and Other Itinerant Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /These essays travel near andfar to explore landscapes of personal and cultural significance and thecommunities that inhabit them. At a time when ...
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After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEOn May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven ...
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Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revol...
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Bold Forecast: The Hurricane Agnes Deluge
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Everyone knew the flood was impossible. But the sentinels warned it was coming. A vivid saga of courage, sacrifice and survival, Bold Forecast bri...
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from...
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Death in the Everglades: Accidents, Foolhardiness, and Mayhem in South Florida
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hidden in the tall grasses and shallow waters of the Florida Everglades are true tales of mysterious deaths, clandestine crime, and disasters, both...
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Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exploration of humanity's relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men remi...
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The Secret Language of Flowers: The Historical Symbolism and Spiritual Properties of Flowers Throughout Time
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Discover the uses and symbolic meanings of flowers over the centuries and across the globe. Flowers have been depicted as objects of beauty and won...
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A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A Foundational Conservation Story Revived Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman po...
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Send a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Send a Ranger is the true story of one man's dream to live and work as a ranger in our national parks. Author Tom Habecker began his 32-year career...
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The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this fascinating journey through the natural and cultural history of the palmetto, Jono Miller offers surprising facts and dispels common myths ...
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In the Adirondacks: Dispatches from the Largest Park in the Lower 48
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An immersive journey into the past, present, and future of a region many consider the Northeast's wilderness backyard. Out of all the rural areas o...
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Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /2023 Martin Kansas History Book Award In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ah...
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Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Discover the fascinating history and legacy of working equines in Charleston, South Carolina.Featuring thorough research, absorbing storytelling, a...
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The remarkable story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the wor...
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, d...
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance,...
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The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the clo...
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Salt: A World History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt." - New York Times Book Review An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The ...
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural wo...
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The American Chestnut: An Environmental History
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural ...
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Rediscovery of North America
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of m...
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The Galapagos: A Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern P...
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