Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods in California
From acacia to wild grape, Foraging California guides the reader to the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Golden State. Helpfully organized by plant families, with detailed information on locations, the book is an authoritative guide for nature lovers, outdoorsmen, and gastronomes.
A Young Naturalist's Guide to Discovering Nature in the City
When a child walks down a city block, they might see a natural wasteland. A sea of gray with no signs of life. A solitary, sickly, over-pruned tree confined to a square of dirt penned in by concrete. However, what a child might not see are the precarious but sturdy squirrel nests above their heads at the tops of gnarled and crooked trees. The ......
With this informative, fully updated and revised guide, you can explore the mineral-rich region of Montana. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also describes how to collect specimens, includes maps and directions to each site, and lists ......
Including Brown County, Bloomington, and the Whitewater Valley
Take a drive down the scenic route with this fully revised and updated indispensable highway companion. Pack up the car and enjoy over 25 different drives through the broad valleys, lush forests, and covered bridges of Indiana. This all-in-one trip planner maps out short drives for exploring the state's scenic highways and backroads, from Lake ......
The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd
The American entrepreneur George Eastman has been called "the father of the snapshot," bringing photography to the masses with his compact Kodak camera in 1888. But more than a decade earlier, a Connecticut-born inventor devised ingenious hand-held cameras, which he used to record daily life on the streets of New York. As early as 1870, before dry ......
Tunisian crochet is soaring in popularity but there are very few patterns for stylish, attractive wearables, particularly sweaters. Expert crochet designer Dora Ohrenstein aims to change that with this design collection. Tunisian crochet has a reputation as a blanket stitch but Dora's designs disprove that notion with beautiful drape and fit, and ......
Whether youre a beginner or an experienced crocheter, Farm Friends Crochet provides step-by-step instructions to create an adorable cast of farm friends, including Bob the Dog, Mela the Highland Cow, and Quackers the Duck. Crafted with bulky and super bulky yarn, these ......
Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin reveals the miracle by which consciousness evolved out of the natural world from the birth of the cell to the majesty of our modern minds.
Like the Zen Buddhist riddle pondering the imponderable — the sound of a single hand clapping — One Hand Clapping asks the seemingly ......
A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the author's home, literary legacy, and life story. Author Steve Courtney, the organization's Publicist and Publications Editor, conducts a journey back to the Gilded Age, when the ......
