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Winner of the 1996 Roderick Haig-Brown BC Book Prize

Ten exciting and suspenseful stories about BC's most memorable forest fires, and the firefighters who lived to tell about their battles.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin asked how a rain forest could contain so many species: ?What explains the riot?? The same question occupies the scientists who toil on Panama's Barro Colorado Island today. Tropical and steamy, these six square miles comprise the best-studied rain forest in the world, a locus of scientific activity since 1923. In THE TAPIR'S MORNING BATH, Elizabeth Royte weaves together her own adventures on Barro Colorado with tales of researchers struggling to parse the intricate workings of the rain forest, the most complicated natural system on the planet. Through the lens of the field station, she also traces the history of modern biology from its earliest days of collection and classification through the decline of the naturalist to the days of intense niche specialization and rigorous scientific quantification. As Royte counts seeds and sorts insects, collects monkey dung and radiotracks bats, she begins to wonder: what is the point of such arcane studies? The world over, rain forests are rapidly disappearing and species are going extinct. While humanizing the scientists in the field, she explores the tension between their research and the reality of a world that may not have time for the answers.

This Golden Guide describes and illustrates in full color more than 140 of our most common trees. Learn:-How to recognize tree shapes, flowers, buds, leaves, and fruits-Where each species grows-The parts of a tree and the various kinds of treesPerfect for nature lovers of all ages, this is an indispensable guide for everyone who wants to be able to recognize the different trees in North America.

"Parfitt's organization of material and unpretentious, down-to-earth style make the book easy to read, even when its revelations are unsettling." -"Coast Independent"

”Herfra skal lyde et stort TAK! Tak for at give mig en lille pause fra dobbeltkontrakterne. Tak for, at jeg ikke skal spekulere over, hvad der er opdigtet, og hvad der er sket i virkeligheden. Tak for ’bare’ at få en rigtigt god historie” Berit Holbek Jensen, Dagbladenes Bureau”Forvent intet forklarligt eller rationelt … foruroligende og fascinerende” Klaus Rothstein, Weekendavisen”Irmelin har trukket al kærlighed med sig ned i graven.” Sådan lyder anslaget på Betina Birkjærs nye roman (debuterede med Roman i fire årstider, 2014), hvor en familie flytter til et hus i skoven for at få en frisk start efter den yngste datters sælsomme død. I et magisk-realistisk univers med udstoppede fugle, støvede bolcher, kæderygende gespenster og idylliske illusioner forsøger de tre familiemedlemmer at finde hver sit nye ståsted, men naturen trænger sig på og man kan ikke blot begrave sine minder.