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Celebrate the environmental restoration of the Meadowlands. For
decades, New Jersey's Meadowlands have been known as mostly the
home of the NFL's Giants and Jets, the place where Jimmy Hoffa is
purportedly buried, or a wasteland that you passed through on your
way somewhere else. Until recently, that reputation was deserved.
The land was blighted with unregulated landfills and the Hackensack
River so polluted that barnacles couldn't survive. Today, though,
the 30.4-square-mile region has made a remarkable comeback. Located
in Bergen and Hudson Counties and just five miles from Manhattan,
the Meadowlands is a prime destination for birders, kayakers, and
other nature lovers. In words and images, The Nature of the
Meadowlands illuminates the region's natural and unnatural history,
from its darkest days of a half-century ago to its amazing
environmental revival. This is a great resource and beautiful
keepsake for residents and visitors, tourists of New Jersey, nature
lovers, and history buffs.
The call of an owl evokes mystery; seeing one in the wild inspires
wonder. Of the top ten birds people hope to see, three are owls.
Although they may be out of sight, owls are widespread throughout
North America-and screech owls are the most likely to make their
homes near humans. In this book, experts Jim Wright and Scott
Weston show you how to attract them to nest in your yard, year
after year. The Screech Owl Companion introduces screech owls, show
how to distinguish them from other species, shares fun lore and
legend, and provides step-by-step instructions for making your yard
screech ready. You'll learn how to build a nest box and install a
simple nest cam that you can monitor from your cell phone to watch
when owls move in, lay eggs, and hatch.
Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I've had my
James Bond do. -Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist,
marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim? When James Bond
published his landmark book, Birds of the West Indies, he had no
idea it would set in motion events that would link him to the most
iconic spy in the Western world and turn his life upside down. Born
into a wealthy family but cut off in his early twenties, James Bond
took off to the West Indies in search of adventure. Armed with
arsenic and a shotgun, he took months-long excursions to the
Caribbean to collect material for his iconic book, Birds of the
West Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps, sleeping in
hammocks, and island-hopping on tramp steamers and primitive boats.
Packed with archival photos, many never before published, and
interviews with Bond's colleagues, here is the real story of the
pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist who introduced the world to
the exotic birds of the West Indies.
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Alternative War (Paperback)
Debora Godfrey; Jim Wright, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
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Discovery Miles 4 040
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In the past twenty years, big-time stock-car racing has become
America's fastest growing spectator sport. Winston Cup races draw
larger audiences-at the tracks and on television-than any other
sport, and drivers like Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, and Mark Martin
have become cultural icons whose endorsements command millions.
What accounts for NASCAR's surging popularity? For years a
"closeted" NASCAR fan, Professor Jim Wright took advantage of a
sabbatical in 1999 to attend stock-car races at seven of the
Winston Cup's legendary venues: Daytona, Indianapolis, Darlington,
Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta, and Talladega. The "Fixin' to Git
Road Tour" resulted in this book-not just a travelogue of Wright's
year at the races, but a fan's valentine to the spectacle, the
pageantry, and the subculture of Winston Cup racing. Wright busts
the myth that NASCAR is a Southern sport and takes on critics who
claim that there's nothing to racing but "drive fast, turn left,"
revealing the skill, mental acuity, and physical stamina required
by drivers and their crews. Mostly, though, he captures the
experience of loyal NASCAR fans like himself, describing the drama
in the grandstands-and in the bars, restaurants, parking lots, juke
joints, motels, and campgrounds where race fans congregate. He
conveys the rich, erotic sensory overload-the sights, the sounds,
the smells, the feel-of weekends at the Winston Cup race tracks.
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