Washoe County Library System

On Shelf

Gerlach Community Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 567.9 HARTZO 1999
1 available

Description

Describes the expeditions led by Roy Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.

Checkerboard biography library
Conservationists

2) John Burroughs

Author

Mattern, Joanne

Series

Publisher

ABDO Publishing Company

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

On Shelf

Gerlach Community Library - Children's Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
J BIO BURROUGHS 2014
1 available

South Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
J BIO BURROUGHS 2014
1 available

Description

"Extraordinary environments endure through the efforts of conservationists such as John Burroughs. In this engaging biography, readers will learn about Burroughs's farming childhood, his mother's influence on his early love of nature, his education at various schools in New York State, his teaching career, and his wife and family. Readers will discover Burroughs's friendship with the poet Walt Whitman, who inspired Burroughs to become the famous...

3) Confessions of a barbarian: selections from the journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989

Author

Abbey, Edward

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c1994

Language

English

On Shelf

Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 ABB 1994
1 available

Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 ABB 1994
1 available

4) Diary of a young naturalist

Author

McAnulty, Dara

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

On Shelf

Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
508.092 MCANUL 2021
1 available

Description

"From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--

5) Expect great things: the life and search of Henry David Thoreau

Author

Dann, Kevin T

Publisher

TarcherPerigee

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

On Shelf

Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.309 THOREA 2017
1 available

Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
818.309 THOREA 2017
1 available

Description

"To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms. This sweeping, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it:...