The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History 9780300238334, 2021932807

The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History 9780300263114

A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscap

235 74 13MB Read more

Yellow River Odyssey 9780988769304

454 79 5MB Read more

Red Land, Yellow River 9781773063669

The amazing, dramatic, and painful autobiographical story of Ange Zhang as he came of age during the Cultural Revolution

166 79 10MB Read more

The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History 9781501722271

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like

173 29 34MB Read more

Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster 9781479807475

Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: f

170 36 4MB Read more

Yellow River, The: Water And Life 9789814280969, 9789814280952

The Yellow River basin, located in the semi-arid and arid climate zones in northern China, is confronted with serious pr

146 92 23MB Read more

Breathing space: The natural and unnatural history of air 9781350218758, 9781783603848

In this book Mark Everard argues that governments and citizens too often take the air we breathe for granted. Air and th

159 75 1MB Read more

Messages from the Wild: An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History 9780292788978

Seeking a closer connection with nature than the manicured lawns of suburbia, naturalist Fred Gehlbach and his family bu

183 100 5MB Read more

The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear [1° ed.] 0547152426, 9780547152424

Polar bears are creatures of paradox: They are white bears whose skin is black; massive predators who can walk almost si

599 37 5MB Read more

Unnatural History 0563555769

364 52 954KB Read more