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  In the Catskills - Selections...

  John Burroughs

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  In the Catskills gathers eight of John Burroughs's finest nature essays, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910 with photographic illustrations by Clifton Johnson. Burroughs — nicknamed "John o' Birds" for his devotion to birdlife and often credited with creating the modern nature essay — grew up on a farm in New York's Catskill Mountains, and this collection returns again and again to that landscape: snow-covered forests, hemlock groves, trout streams, and the peak of Slide Mountain. Listeners follow him snowshoeing after a red fox, tracing the rhythms of farm life through the seasons, searching out birds' nests each spring, and camping on a bed of hemlock boughs deep in the southern Catskills. Written in Burroughs's plain, observant prose, these essays helped define American nature writing and reflect the same careful attention to the natural world that made him a friend and correspondent of Walt Whitman, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt. A public-domain classic, this audiobook brings Burroughs's affectionate portrait of the Catskill wilderness to a new generation of listeners.

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  Miles in Meaning

  Reece Davis

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  What if the true purpose of travel isn’t to see the world — but to understand it? 
  In Miles in Meaning, travel writer Reece Davis takes readers on an extraordinary journey across continents and inner landscapes alike. From the rain-soaked alleys of Kyoto to the windswept plains of Patagonia, Davis reveals how every mile walked, train boarded, and stranger met reshaped his idea of home, purpose, and belonging. 
  Blending vivid storytelling with heartfelt reflection, Miles in Meaning explores what happens when curiosity becomes a compass — guiding us toward empathy, connection, and the quiet revelations hidden in ordinary encounters. 
  This is not just a book about travel. 
  It’s a meditation on movement, mindfulness, and the enduring power of wonder.

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  Ambience - Under the Sea

  Rasmus Broe

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  Fasten your flippers and oxygen mask, dive into the sea, and enjoy drifting at a sedate pace under the water. Playful dolphins make clicking noises as they swim past, and your mask makes tiny metallic sounding bubbles that rise towards the surface. You might even hear some whale song from the gentle giants of the ocean. 
  Saga Sounds 
  Research has shown that sounds can have both a relaxing and stimulating effect on the brain. The ambience series from Saga Talks is a series of pleasant, varied soundscapes, which you can listen to when winding down, going to sleep, or focusing on work. A specially designed sound universe creates a calming atmosphere, also known as “ambience”, which you can enter when and where you want. 
  Saga Talks has created a series of different soundscapes and ambient environments in collaboration with sound designer and composer Rasmus Broe (f. 1975).

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  Cold War Armored Fighting Vehicles

  George Bradford

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  For modelers and military enthusiasts, a collection of scale drawings of post-WWII 20th century military vehicles.   This volume of scale drawings of military vehicles covers the Cold War, from the end of World War II through 1990. Included here are the armored fighting vehicles that fought in Korea and Vietnam, in the Arab-Israeli wars, and in other conflicts around the globe, as well as those that never saw combat. Vehicles include:   ·       Centurion main battle tank (Britain) ·       Leopard 2 main battle tank (Germany) ·       Magach 6 tank (Israel) ·       T-55 main battle tank (Soviet Union) ·       M47 Patton medium tank (United States) ·       And dozens more . . . 

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  American Cookery

  Amelia Simmons

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  American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, was the first known cookbook written by an American, published in 1796. Until this time, the cookbooks printed and used in what became the United States were British cookbooks, so the importance of this book is obvious to American culinary history, and more generally, to the history of America.

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  Walden

  Henry David Thoreau

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  Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer John Updike-celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter" Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden-as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

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