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Packing with Burros
Dave Daney
144 pages
978-087961-280-1
Price: $15.95
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A comprehensive guide to the selection, care, training and use of pack burros. Packing on foot into the wilderness with heavy loads for fishing, photography or small children can mean backbreaking loads. With a burro packing your gear you can arrive fresh and take companions who might not be up to the rigors of an unassisted trip. Many photos of burros on pack trips and helpful illustrations of burro anatomy and the gear. Packing with burros with his family for the past 25 years, the author has learned a thing or two to share.
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Basketry Plants
Used by Western American Indians
Justin Farmer
244 pages
0-9761492-2-2
Price: $19.95
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Many Indian basket devotees are only vaguely familiar with plant material used to create baskets, despite the fact that basketry identifications depends on recognizing plants used. Thirty-seven of the most common plant species used have been selected. Each plant is shown in color as photographed in the field and also a basket using the plant. Specifics are given for fifty-seven Western American tribes, their basketry characteristics, weaving style and plants they used in coiling and twining, plus their indicative basket patterns.
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Springer's Quest: Life of a Pacific Chinook Salmon
Nina Gee
96 pages
978-087961-277-1
Price: $12.95
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Educator Nina Gee follows a salmon from the beginning to end of its life, its biology and environment as she chronicles its descent from the river of its birth to the Pacific. She imagines the salmon's life at sea from data gathered by fishermen and scientists, then trails the mysterious return to spawn in her natal stream.
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Where Wild Things Live
Wildlife Watching Techniques
Dan Story
128 pages
978-087961-276-4
Price: $13.95
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Wildlife is everywhere insists Dan Story, yet wildlife watchers and photographers lament they rarely see animals in their natural environment. Skills are explained, even for beginners, to locate and observe animals without frightening them away. He suggests the best watching habitats including open spaces close to cities and towns.
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Modoc, The Tribe That Wouldn't Die
Cheewa James
352 pages
0-87961-275-4
Price: $19.95
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This book is the most comprehensive written about a remarkable tribe,
covering Modoc history from ancestral times to the present, richly documented,
non-fiction narrative with fictionalized inserts. Numerous photographs, some
never published; also two never revealed soldier letters from relatives
trunks. The Modoc War was one of the most costly Indian Wars ever fought,
pitting 55 warriors against 1,000 soldiers.
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Pacific Coastal Wildlife
Yocom/Dasmann
144 pages
0-87961-264-9
Price: $12.95
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This one-volume fieldbook, not a pack full, covers most of the wildlife you will see. Plants-Mammals-Birds-Reptiles-Amphibians-Fish
This humid coastal belt extends from northwest California to southwestern British Columbia Thoroughly illustrated with an illustration beside each descriptive text with habitat information.
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Birds in Nest Boxes
Charlotte C. Corkran
144 pages
0-87961-270-3
Price: $15.95
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How to help, study, and enjoy birds when snags are scarce Written
for beginning bird lovers and professional ornithologists alike, this
beautiful book has 150 color photos and information on things you need to
start a nest box program, such as site preferences, nesting cycles,
making and checking nest boxes.
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Enjoying the Native American-Style Flute
Henry R. Hermann
112 pages
0-87961-271-1
Price: $10.95
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This book contains everything a flutist needs to know to enjoy an
instrument that is rapidly growing in popularity: playing, making, caring for
the flute, and references to videos, internet sites and flute companies.
Illustrations, diagrams, and color photos.
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WATER: Fascinating Facts and Oddities
Frank Burk
80 pages
0-87961-273-8
Price: $9.95
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This book contains a vast array of strange and wondrous facts about the
world's most commonplace substance--WATER. How precisely do two gases,
hydrogen and oxygen combine into a liquid? Why are snowflakes always
six-pointed, or what is a rainbow? These are explained and much more.
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Yokuts and Paiute Songs and Culture
Alfred Pietroforte
64 pages
0-87961-274-6
Price: $15.95
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Comes with a CD of the 25 songs given in the book. The project of obtaining the old time songs was almost too late as already many of the oldtimers had passed away along with their songs. Twenty-five of these old songs are herein preserved and photos of many of the songsters. Much of the history surrounding music of the era is given. Book is embraced by schools, museums, musicologists, Smithsonian and other institutes.
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