Nature, Environment, and Ecology

This CD contains 122 books relating to Nature, Environment, and Ecology. This includes scientific works, but also works of literature, by such authors as Wordsworth, Frost, Mark Twain (Roughing It), Muir, Thoreau, Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ernest Seton Thompson.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents

The Book of National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard, 1919
Ohio Biological Survey, 1921
The Nation's River [Potomac], 1968
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota
Rai Bhadur K. Ranga Achariyar
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

Henry C. Adams

• The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns

F.G. Aflalo

• Birds in the Calendar

E.H. Aitken

• Concerning Animals and Other Matters

E.T. Allen

• Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest

Charles Babcock

• Bird Day, How to Prepare for It

Henry Bates

• The Naturalist on the River Amazon

William Beebe

• The Edge of the Jungle, 1921
• The Log of the Sun, a Chronicle of Nature's Year, 1906

Neltje Blanchan

• Bird Neighbors
• Wild Flowers
• Wild Flowers Worth Knowing

Thomas Bett

• The Naturalist in Nicaragua

Jagadis Chunder Bose

• Response in the Living and Non-Living

Lucien Biart

• Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Mrs. Brightwen

• Wild Nature Won by Kindness

Montagu Browne

• Practical Taxidermy, a manual of Instruction to the Amateur

John Burroughs

• Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
• Bird Stories
• Birds and Poets
• Breath of Life
• In the Catskills
• John James Audubon
• Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers
• The Wit of a Duck
• Our Friend John Burroughs by Clara Barrus

James Fenimore Cooper

• The Pioneers

C.J. Cornish

• The Naturalist on the Thames

Corin Dame and Henry Brooks

• Handbook of the Trees of New England

N.H. Egleston

• Arbor Day Leaves

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Essays first series
• Essays second series

Harold Fairanks

• Conservation Reader

Robert Frost

• Boy's Will
• Mountain Interval
• North of Boston

A. Hamilton Gibson

• Camp Life in the Woods and Tricks of Trapping

Mary Huston Gregory

• Checking the Waste

Bob Hines

• Ducks at a Distance

Charles Hodge

• What Is Darwinism?

William Hornaday

• Extermination of the American Bison
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals
• Our Vanishing Wildlife, 1913

Isabel Hornibrook

• Camp and Trail: a Story of the Maine Woods, 1897

W. Houghton

• Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children

W.D. Hudson

• Birds of Town and Village

Allan Hume

• The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, volume 1, 1899

Francis Kermode

• Catalogue of British Birds

Leander S. Keyser

• Birds of the Rockies
• Our Bird Comrades, 1907

J.J. Levison

• Studies of Trees, 1914

J.C. Lewis

• Black Beaver the Trapper

William Long

• Secrets of the Woods, 1901
• Ways of Wood Folk, first series

Sir John Lubbock

• The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In, 1892

Ike Matthews

• Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher

J. Horace McFarland

• Getting Acquainted with Trees

Rufus Merrill

• Book About Animals, 1850

Olive Thorne Miller

• In Nesting Time
• Little Brothers of the Air, 1892

Enos Mills

• Wild Life on the Rockies

John Muir (1838-1914)

• The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• The Mountains of California
• Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
• Stickeen
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
• Travels in Alaska
• Yosemite

W. Coape Oates

• Wild Ducks: How to Rear and Shoot Them, 1905

A.S. Packard

• Our Common Insects

Henry Pater

• The Naturalist on the River Amazon

T. Gilbert Pearson

• The Bird Study Book

Charles G.D. Roberts

• The Watchers of the Trails, a Book of Animal Life

Theodore Roosevelt

• African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
• Autobiography
• Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
• Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt

John Ruskin

• Hortus Inclusus: messages from the wood to the garden
• Lectures on Landscape
• Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• Proserpina, studies of wayside flowers,

volume 1

volume 2

• The Queen of the Air, beign a study of the Greek myths of cloud and storm
• Sesame and Lillies

Ellen Churchill Semple

• Influences of Geographic Environment

Eleanor Pruitt Stewart

• Letters on an Elk Hunt

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)

• Animal Heroes
• The Biography of a Grizzly
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen
• Monarch the Big Bear of Tallac
• Rolf in the Woods
• Wild Animals I Have Known

George Russell Shaw

• The Genus Pinus

James Sheehan

• Your Plants

Albert F. Siepert

• Bird Houses Boys Can Build

Julia Sloane

• The Smiling Hilltop and Other California Sketches

Cecil Smith

• Birds of Guernsey and the Neighboring Islands

Dame Margaret Smith

• I Married a Ranger, 1850

Robert Sterndale

• Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

• Excursions (1863)
• Walden
• Walking (essay)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Wild Apples (essay)

Bradford Torrey

• Birds in the Bush
• The Foot-Path Way

Mark Twain

• Roughing It

Emil Urban

• Birds from Coahuila, Mexico

Gilbert White

• The Natural History of Selborne

Volume 1

Volulme 2

Lieutenant-Colonel William Wood

• Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador
• Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, 1911
• Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, 1912

William Wordsworth

• Poetical Works

volume 1

volume 2

volume 3

all three volumes in a single file in .doc format, with internal links

Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Corres

• Citizen Bird

Robert Yerkes

• The Dancing Mouse: a Study in Animal Behavior