Finding Sanctuary

Finding Sanctuary
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ISBN-10 : 0578640619
ISBN-13 : 9780578640617
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Finding Sanctuary by : Barry Van Dusen

A richly illustrated diary-style narrative, serving as a showcase and celebration of Mass Audubon's wildlife sanctuaries across Massachusetts. Over the course of four-and-a-half years, internationally recognized nature artist Barry Van Dusen visited all of Mass Audubon's 61 wildlife sanctuaries, nature centers and museums, creating drawings and paintings at each location. This book celebrates the richness, beauty and ecological diversity of Massachusetts and the Mass Audubon sanctuary system, as seen through the eyes of a wandering artist/naturalist. The book includes a foreword by John Hanson Mitchell, and an opening chapter by Barry in which he discusses his artistic practices in field and studio.

The Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society

The Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society
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Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044106310592
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Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society by : Massachusetts Audubon Society

List of members in v. 1, no. 1.

The Book of North American Owls

The Book of North American Owls
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 0395605245
ISBN-13 : 9780395605240
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of North American Owls by : Helen Roney Sattler

Provides general information on the behavior of owls and specific information about the physical characteristics and behavior of the twenty-one North American species.

Mass Audubon

Mass Audubon
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0738537829
ISBN-13 : 9780738537825
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Mass Audubon by : John J. Galluzzo

Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall might be surprised to see what their simple discussion over tea in Boston's Back Bay in 1896 has led to more than one hundred years later. Concerned about the widespread killing of birds for use in the millinery trade, the ladies asked other society women not to wear dead birds on their hats and to join the Massachusetts Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds. Today, sixty-eight thousand households across the state support the protection of all native Massachusetts wildlife on more than thirty thousand acres of sanctuaries from Wellfleet Bay on Cape Cod to Pleasant Valley in Lenox. Mass Audubon carries the reader around the state to meet the farmers, entrepreneurs, and donors who owned, worked, and loved the land before it passed into the protective embrace of this conservation organization.

Nature Of Massachusetts

Nature Of Massachusetts
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Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106012885254
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Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature Of Massachusetts by : Christopher W. Leahy

Skunk and Badger

Skunk and Badger
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 9781443460460
ISBN-13 : 144346046X
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Skunk and Badger by : Amy Timberlake

The first title in a warm and witty illustrated chapter-book series from Newbery Honor–winner Amy Timberlake and superstar illustrator Jon Klassen, about a pair of unlikely animal friends Analytical and set in his ways, Badger is taken aback when jolly, easygoing Skunk rings the doorbell to announce he’s Badger’s new roommate. (Badger may have been ignoring his landlord Aunt Lula’s letters . . . ) But as Badger begrudgingly opens up his home—and heart—to Skunk and his unconventional ways, the two characters become irrevocably changed by each other, establishing an odd-couple friendship that is timeless and real. Set in a brownstone in a town that evokes a slightly-more-urban Hundred Acre Wood, the story is part Wind in the Willows, part Wallace and Gromit. Filled with a delightful population of chickens, sheep, stoats, hedgehogs, voles and philosophical musings, it establishes the perfect scenario for illustrations by Caldecott Medal–winner (This Is Not My Hat) and Honor illustrator (Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole) Jon Klassen.

Mammal Tracks and Scat

Mammal Tracks and Scat
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Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : 0970365411
ISBN-13 : 9780970365415
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Mammal Tracks and Scat by : Lynn Levine

Audubon at Sea

Audubon at Sea
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9780226756677
ISBN-13 : 022675667X
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Audubon at Sea by : Christoph Irmscher

"John James Audubon's paintings of birds are as familiar as they are beautiful. But even among his admirers, many may be surprised to learn that Audubon was a gifted writer. In this one-of-a-kind anthology, Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King have curated a collection of Audubon's coastal and sea writing, which represent Audubon's most compelling and evocative depictions of the natural world and early nineteenth-century American life. The collection is geographically diverse, bringing to light the variety of people and wildlife Audubon met or observed, pulling from the massive Ornithological Biography (1831-1839) as well as the "Autobiography" and journals. The editors supplement the selections with an instructive introduction and powerful coda, section headnotes, explanatory notes, and an appendix linking Audubon's species to current taxonomy and geographic ranges. The book is lavishly illustrated as well. There is much more in Audubon at Sea than descriptions of birds: we have stories of life aboard ship, of travel in early America and Audubon's work habits, the origins of iconic paintings, and, in the end, the carefully drawn commentary on a flawed and, at best, ambiguous hero"--

Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai

Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9781338671582
ISBN-13 : 1338671588
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai by : Debbi Michiko Florence

Fans of Lisa Greenwald and Wendy Mass are sure to fall head-over-heels for this funny, sweet story of crushes, competition, and the confusing reality of middle school. "Heartbreak is for suckers." -- Jenna Sakai When Jenna gets dumped over winter break, it confirms what she learned from her parents' messy divorce: Relationships are risky and only lead to disappointment. So even though she still has to see her ex-boyfriend Elliott at newspaper club, Jenna is going to be totally heartless this semester -- no boys, just books. But keeping her cool isn't always easy. Jenna's chief competition for a big journalism scholarship is none other than Elliott. Her best friend Keiko always seems busy with her own boyfriend. And cute-but-incredibly-annoying Rin Watanabe keeps stealing her booth at the diner she's been hiding at every day after school. Rin is every bit as stubborn and detached as Jenna. And the more Jenna gets to know him, the more intriguing a mystery he seems. Soon Jenna is starting to realize that being a loner is kind of, well, lonely. And letting people in might just be a risk worth taking.