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New, annotated first edition of 1859 revolutionary classic!
This controversial book explains nature not as a fixed backdrop created only yesterday by a purposeful God, but as a simple yet sophisticated dynamic system that has operated over incomprehensibly deep time, yielding a vast variety of adapted, yet ever-changing species.
With the object of making the text more comprehensible and enjoyable to the general science reader, Japanorama's editors have added dozens of illustrations and portraits, scores of footnotes, information on the people mentioned, W.S. Dallas' glossary of scientific terms in the book, a geological timeline, and a chronology of Darwin's life.
Return to the mid 19th century and find out what all the fuss was about, and why it remains so controversial in the 21st century.
Zipped .pdf file containing 276 pages.
Price: US$10.00
This collection of little-known essays by America's best-loved conservationist and nature writer spans twenty-nine years of John Muir's travels in 19th-century California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, as well as among the Indians resident therein. Well written, informative, and at times thrilling—as when Muir spends a night atop storm-battered Mount Shasta—these essays portray a vanished but picturesque period in the American West.
Zipped .pdf file with illustrations and footnotes.
Price: US$5.00
"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks...."
In this classic nature essay published in the June 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, American naturalist Henry David Thoreau eloquently advocates the soul-cleansing benefits of a walk in the woods.
Zipped .pdf file with illustrations.
Price: US$5.00
Inexpensive e-books about Japan.
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