Titres dans Plein-air et nature

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. 

Since 2020, Lee Asher has rescued more than 1,000 dogs and reached social media popularity with the pack at The Asher House, a nonprofit animal sanctuary in Oregon. In this audiobook, Asher shares the intimate journey that led him to rescue animals and inspire others to do good in the world, from his tumultuous childhood struggling with ADHD and bullies to a crushing corporate job that urged him to find his true purpose.

The Off-Grid Survival Handbook for Beginners is your ultimate guide to living off the land, building resilience, and creating a life of purpose and independence. Whether you're looking to homestead, live off-grid in a tiny home, or simply prepare for emergencies to safeguard your home, power, water, and food, this book offers the practical tools and mindset you need to thrive.

We live such busy lives and have completely lost touch with nature. This is a handbook for reconnecting back with nature's energy, wisdom and a natural way of living. It will make you more observant, pausing to take stock of each season and how it's making you feel so you can take care of yourself all year round. Packed with nourishing rituals, practices and Kirsty's trademark wisdom, Sacred Seasons will show you how to draw on inspiration from nature's events, including the spring equinox, the summer solstice, the autumn equinox and Imbolc.

In this classic work that continues to inspire its many fans, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on Earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the face of threats to its existence, the book explores the hypothesis that the Earth's living matter - air, ocean, and land surfaces - forms a complex system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life.

The unsolved mysteries of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and their legendary 1924 Everest expedition. This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus conversation between the authors. There is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George Mallory and...

Bloomsbury presents Beauty of the Beasts by Jo Wimpenny, read by Bettrys Jones In an age of catastrophic biodiversity loss, the author of Aesop’s Animals explains why we should champion and protect nature’s underdogs. The living world evokes many emotions, especially when it comes to our...

The Conservation Manifesto (also known as The Fight for Conservation) is a 1910 book by Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the United States Forest Service and one of the principal architects of the American conservation movement. Gifford Pinchot argued that America’s forests, water, minerals...

Not quite land and not quite water, boglands have long been dismissed as wastelands. Come closer and a strange truth emerges: These wild, eerie landscapes stretch our minds, hold the history of humanity, and will shape the future of our planet. In Bogland, acclaimed ecologist Merritt R. Turetsky...

The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales’ entanglement and slow death in rope and nets, and the global shipping routes that bring us readily available goods often lead to death by collision. We—all of us—are whalers, marine scientist and veterinarian Michael J. Moore contends. But we do not have to be.

In For the Love of Rivers, stream ecologist Kurt Fausch draws readers across the reflective surface of streams to view what is beneath, ponder how they work, and consider what is essential about streams and rivers for us as humans. In this beautiful memoir, he uses his many years of experience as a field biologist to explain the underlying science connecting these aquatic ecosystems and their fishes to streamside forests and the organisms found there —including humans.

Using fishing as a metaphor for personal growth, healing and belonging, Black Fish is a captivating blend of practical fishing guide, intimate memoir and cultural reflection, written by multitalented musician Speech Debelle. Lyrically woven across an array of practical fishing advice – from...

Up to the Light, a new Fourth Estate book, full description to follow when available...

Die umfassende Elektrifizierung der Wärmeversorgung kommt. Für Hunderttausende Wohnungseigentümer, Hausbesitzerinnen, aber auch für alle, die zur Miete wohnen, stellt sich die Frage: Womit und wie und zu welchem Preis kann ich in Zukunft heizen? Lohnt sich insbesondere eine Wärmepumpe und ist sie in meinem Haus überhaupt sinnvoll einsetzbar?

Humans used to be embedded in the natural world, but today many of us live sedentary screen-based lives indoors, treating nature as something distant – to be watched on television or reached by flying elsewhere.

In Unlocking the Bond: The Power and Paradox of Human-Animal Interactions, veterinarian, surgeon, and dean of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Rustin M. Moore, explores the extraordinary power—and hidden paradox—at the heart of human–animal relationships. Drawing on decades of clinical practice, leadership, and deeply personal experiences, he reveals how these bonds shape our health, our communities, and the future of life on a shared planet.

Do you dream of finally exploring America's most breathtaking landscapes in your RV but feel overwhelmed by where to start, what to avoid, and how to plan your journey? Frustrated by conflicting advice, outdated information, and the sheer complexity of planning trips across 50 different states? You're not alone. Thousands of aspiring RV travelers feel exactly the same way, excited about the freedom of the open road but anxious about the unknowns. The good news? You dont need years of trial-and-error or costly mistakes to travel like a veteran.

El célebre naturalista francés Buffon señaló en su día que «el discurso de la naturaleza no es más que la naturaleza transformada en discurso». María Negroni se propone rastrear las representaciones de la naturaleza—o sumergirse en la naturaleza escrita—en las que la unión de lo visible con lo enunciable produce un conjunto dotado de sentido.

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has...

Feeling bone-tired, anxious and overwhelmed by the rolling news cycle and the pandemic age, Katherine May seeks to unravel the threads of a life wound too tightly. Could there be another way to live - one that feels more meaningful, more grounded in the places beneath our feet? One that would allow us to feel more connected, more rested and at ease, even as seismic changes unfold on the planet?