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Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna (1946-2000)

philosopher, anthropologist, ethnobotanist

  • University of California, Berkeley

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The sacred mushroom seeker
True hallucinations
Food of the gods
The invisible landscape
True hallucinations
The archaic revival
Food of the gods
Sacred Mushrooms and the Law
Surfing on Finnegans Wake & Riding Range With Marshall McLuhan
True Hallucinations and the Archaic Revival
Evolutionary Mind
Die süsseste Sucht
Vere allucinazioni
Global Perspectives and Psychedelic Poets
Vision Plants
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
History Ends in Green
El Manjar De Los Dioses
John Muir
John Muir (1838-1914)

botanist, geologist, explorer, inventor, essayist, autobiographer, preservationist, mountaineer, glaciologist, ecologist, philosopher, naturalist, conservationist

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin System

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The mountains of California
My first summer in the Sierra
A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
The story of my boyhood and youth
John Muir
All the world over
Nature writings
Travels in Alaska
John of the mountains
The wild Muir
The wilderness world of John Muir
Essential Muir
Northwest passages
Letters from Alaska
To Yosemite and beyond
Sacred summits
John Muir to Yosemite and Beyond
The American wilderness, in the words of John Muir
The Wilderness Journeys
Dear Papa
John Muir summering in the Sierra
John Muir, in his own words
My First Summer In The Sierra And Selected Essays
Sacred summits
My first summer in the Sierra
Rambles in King's River country
My First Summer in the Sierra
Selected writings
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Travels in Alaska
The mountains of California
Travels in Alaska
Selected Writings
Journeys in the Wilderness
My First Summer in the Sierra
Journeys in the Wildnerness
Steep Trails
The Yosemite
Stickeen
The cruise of the Corwin
Our national parks
Muir among the animals
America's Wilderness
Gentle wilderness
Trails of wonder
John Muir's longest walk
Kindred and related spirits
South of Yosemite
Meditations of John Muir
Studies in the Sierra
The writings of John Muir
Mountaineering essays
The story of my boyhood and youth
The Velvet Monkey Wrench
The American wilderness
Travels in Alaska
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search ..
Letters to a Friend
The Yellowstone national park
Collins Guide to Musicals
Christian non-pacifism
Plough Quarterly No. 4
LETTERS AND LIFE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
John of the mountains
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Articles
John Muir's Guide to Cape Town and the western Cape
The wisdom of John Muir
John Muir's Last Journey South to the Amazon and East to Africa
West of the Rocky Mountains
Alcidamas
Letters to a friend, written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879
Save the redwoods
Letters to a friend
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada
Travels in Alaska
Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers
Songs and Seeds
The Yosemite
Como Mantener Tu Volkswagen Vivo
Gentle wilderness; the Sierra Nevada
Wilderness essays
Edward Henry Harriman
Know your Cape
Yellowstone National Park
Edward Henry Harriman
Stickeen - The Story of a Dog (1909)
The mountains of California
Afoot to Yosemite
Yosemite reflections
Northwest Passages from the Pen of John Muir
An ascent of Mount Rainier
Cruise of the revenue-steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881
MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA (HC)
Two essays on the sights & sounds of the Sierra Nevada
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive for Se
The Mountains of California
Picturesque California
Voyages en Alaska
Stikeen
Studies of the Sierra
A Thousand-mile Walk To The Gulf
Making omelettes
Collected Works of John Muir
Heaven on earth
How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, 30th Anniversary Ed
Steep Trails
The John Muir papers, 1858-1957
Wanderlust 2023 Wall Calendar
Discovery of Glacier Bay
Rambles of a botanist among the plants and climates of California
Travels In Alaska (The Works Of John Muir)
Musicals
Yosemite, The
Stickeen: the story of a dog
Cuaderno de montaña
The treasures of the Yosemite
Autobiography
Proposed Yosemite National Park
The story of my boyhood and youth ; and, A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
Viajes Por Alaska
Two essays on the forests and lakes of the Sierra Nevada
Spirit of the Wilderness
Carlyle on Burns
Come and Join the Celebration
Picturesque California and the region west of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico
John Muir's book of animals
Effective interviewing
Sierra Nevada natural history
Our National Parks (The Works Of John Muir)
Writing the Western Landscape (Concord Library Book)
My First Summer in the Sierra
Reminisciencias Portuguesas na Arabia Oriental
The Story of My Boyhood
Mountains Of California, The
Notes on my journeying in California's northern mountains
The Sierra bears
Sierra Nevada natural history
American Roots Boxed Set #1
Stickeen
Two essays on the mountains & meadows of the Sierra Nevada
1000 Mile Walk to the Gulf
John Muir
Control of field rodents in California
Alaska, the Harriman Expedition, 1899
Travels in Alaska
Children in the Church?
Rival of the Yosemite
In the Heart of the California Alps
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive 19 Ed
Divided Loyalties Shared Beliefs
My First Summer in the Sierra
A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
Alaska
Our Yosemite National Park
Wild Sheep
Cruise of the Corwin
Mountaineering Essays (Peregrine Smith Literary Naturalists)
Un été dans la Sierra
The Yosemite
Wilderness essays
Notes on the range and life-history of the Pacific fresh-water turtle, Clemmys marmorata
Control of injurious rodents in California
Sierra Big Trees
Control of field rodents in California
The Mountains of California
Our National Parks
Control of rats and mice
The mountains of California (The Natural history library)
The Yosemite.
Our national parks
Cruise of the Corwin
South of Yosemite. Edited and with a Foreword by Frederic R. Gunsky. with Photos. by Philip Hyde. Sketches by John Muir
Our National Parks
Correspondence
Gentle Wilderness, the Sierra Nevada
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
John Muir's Studies in the Sierra
Little Muir's Night
Quotations of John Muir
Anywhere that is wild
My First Summer in Sierra by John Muir
Songs and seeds
The Cruise Of The Corwin . By : John Muir, edited by W. F. Badè
Stickeen
My First Summer in Sierra
Gentle Wilderness
Wind-Storm in the Forests
Little Muir's Song
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
Steep Trails - California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Canyon
Our National Parks
The Mountains of California
Picturesque California
MY FIRST SUMMER in the SIERRA (Classic Literature and Fiction) (Annotated)
The mountains of California ...
A Brief Examination Of Prevalent Opinions On The Inspiration Of The Scriptures Of The Old And New Testaments, By A Lay Member Of The Church Of England [j. Muir.]
Wild Flowers of the Sierra -- Yosemite Nature Notes, v37, n6
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Yosemite
Poor Stickeen
Gentle Wilderness
The Wilderness World of John Muir
Our National Parks . By : John Muir
A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Writings of John Muir; Volume 9
John Muir : Nature Writings
The wilderness world of John Muir
Catalogue of the books in the library of the Faculty of procurators in Glasgow
Qun feng yu shan jian
Wilderness
Stickeen
Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Rare John Muir / THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN First Edition 1917
The life and letters of John Muir
מסעות באלסקה
Steep Trails
Stickeen
The cruise of the Corwin
Travels in Alaska
Our national parks
Steep Trails
My First Summer in Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra
Index to Mr. [john] Muir's Sanskrit Texts
Yosemite (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)
Greek Eyes on Europe
Treasures of the Yosemite
Tentamen medicum inaugurale de tetano ...
Story of My Boyhood and Youth (Yesterday's Classics)
Our National Parks
Tim Thinks of Something
The Yosemite
Wilderness Essays
The mountains of California
Yosemite reflections
John Muir
Boyhood of a Naturalist
Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Tim Minds the Show
Travels in Alask
Muir's American grammar
My first summer in the Sierra. By
Steep Trails
Voyages en Alaska
Stickeen
The Writings of John Muir
Cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean In 1881 ...
Travels in Alaska by
Stickeen
Travels in Alaska
Writings of John Muir
The Yosemite
Steep Trails
The Story Of My Boyhood And Youth
Yosemite
Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Travels In Alaska
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions : The Vedas
My First Summer in the Sierra
Escritos sobre naturaleza
John Muir
In Nature's Heart
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Illustrated Edition)
Travels In Alaska - 1st Edition
Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canon
Viajes por Alaska
The writings of John Muir
Space
Stickeen
Transcontinental railway
Our National Parks
Environmentalism and Nature Book Set
Travels in Alaska
Our National Parks
Préserver les solitudes
Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Travels in Alaska : (with Original Drawings and Photographs)
Mountains of California
The Cruise of the Corwin
My First Summer in the Sierra
Facing Feelings and Fears Picture Book Set
Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist , Including : The Mountains of California , Stickeen
Boyhood of a Naturalist
My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra (Warbler Classics)
My First Summer in Sierra
Summer Days at Mount Shasta
Escritos sobre naturaleza
Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin
Cruise of the Corwin
ABC's Around the Forest
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and Progress of the Religion and Institutions of India
Steep Trails
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
The Cruise of the Corwin
Mi primer verano en la Sierra
The Boyhood Of A Naturalist
Edward Henry Harriman
The Mountains of California
THE BOYHOOD OF A NATURALIST Being Selected Chapters from "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth"
The Grand Canon Of The Colorado
Collected Works of John Muir
Story of My Boyhood and Youth
In Nature's Heart ~ the Wilderness Days of John Muir
Years of Endurance
Edward Henry Harriman
Original Sanskrit Texts On The Origin And History Of The People Of India, Their Religion And Institutions
Twenty-Two Days Series West Coast
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
Mountains of California
American Wilderness
Mountains of California
THE DEVIL'S POST OFFICE
Edward Henry Harriman
John Muir - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Steep Trails
ABC's Around the Forest
Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. / Original Version /
Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World
John of the mountains;
Wilderness Journeys
ቁልቁል ዱካዎች
The Yosemite
The Yosemite
Wildereness Essays New Edition
Reasons for the Establishment of a Sanskrit Chair in the University of Edinburgh
Letters to a Friend
Mi primer verano en la Sierra
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and Progress of the Religion and Institutions of India
Mountains of California
Traveling the Milky Way Together
Our National Parks
Mountains of California
From the Eagle's Wing
Steep Trails
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879
Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Our National Parks
The Yosemite
Travels in Alaska
The wilderness world of John Muir, with an introduction and interpretive comments by Edwin Way Teale
Writings of John Muir; Volume 5
How to keep your Volkswagen alive! A manual of step by step procedures for the compleat idiot
Stickeen
Mountains of Californi
Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon
Wilderness Essays
Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World
Gentle wilderness; the Sierra Nevada
John Muir Collection
Préserver les solitudes
Escritos sobre naturaleza
Travels in Alaska
Essential Muir
Grand Canon of the Colorado
Stickeen
Gentle wilderness
Escritos sobre naturaleza
A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf, By John Muir,edited By William Frederic Bade
Story of My Boyhood and Youth
John Muir Wilderness Box Set
My First Summer in the Sierra
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Travels in Alaska (1915)
John Muir - A Miscellany
Yosemite by John Muir
Tim Minds the Baby
Story of My Boyhood and Youth
South of Yosemite
My Grandad Says
Twenty-Two Days Series (Asst-Dalton)
Edward Henry Harriman
My First Summer in the Sierra
James Lovelock
James Lovelock (1919-2022)

biologist, chemist, mythographer, ecologist, environmentalist, biochemist, futurist, independent scientist, autobiographer, scientist

  • University of Manchester, Strand School

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Homage to Gaia
Homage to Gaia
Gaia
The vanishing face of gaia
The Revenge of Gaia
The ages of Gaia
Healing Gaia
A Rough Ride To The Future
Novacene
Gaia, the practical science of planetary medicine
Tracers in the Ocean
Caving
A caving manual
Revenge of Gaia
The evolving Gaia theory
ATMOSPHERIC HOMEOSTASIS BY AND FOR THE BIOSPHERE
Welkom in het Novaceen
Homenaje a Gaia
HANDS UP FOR THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
Future
James Lovelock et Al. the Earth and I
James Lovelock et Al. la Terre et Moi
La venjança de la Terra
THE GREAT EXTINCTION
Life and death underground
Les âges de Gaïa
Climbing
Great Extinction
Rough Ride to the Future
THE GREAT EXTINCTION WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS AND DEVASTATED THE EARTH
Gaia : a New Look at Life on Earth
La venganza de la Tierra
Earthdance
Homage To Gaia - The Life Of An Independant Scientist
Der wissende Kosmos. Die Entdeckung eines neuen Weltbildes
AS/a Level Music - Rock and Pop, Musical Theatre and Jazz
We Belong to Gaia
Alexander Shulgin
Alexander Shulgin (1925-2014)

biochemist, pharmacologist, chemist, pharmacist

  • Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley

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PiHKAL
TiHKAL
Tihkal
Controlled Substances
The Nature of Drugs
The Shulgin Index, Vol. 1
The Simple Plant Isoquinolines
John Sack
John Sack (1930-2004)

war correspondent, journalist, mountaineer, botanical collector

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The Dragonhead
An Eye for an Eye
Fingerprint
Company C
Report from Practically Nowhere
M
Company C
The man-eating machine
The Butcher
From here to Shimbashi
La Conspiracion De Asis
The ascent of Yerupaja
La conspiracion de Asis
Spisek franciszkanow
M. / by John Sack
הקשר הפרנציסקני
Love on a Rusty Spur
Fingerprint an Uncommon Autobiography
La conspiracion de Asis/ The Conspiracy of Asis (Spanish Edition)
Spisek Franciszkanw
A conspirac ʹa o Franciscana
Harriet L. Keeler
Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921)

teacher, botanist, suffragist

  • Oberlin College

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The life of Adelia A. Field Johnston ...
Our native trees and how to identify them
Our northern shrubs and how to identify them
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits ..
High school English
Studies in English composition
Our early wild flowers
Our early wild flowers
The wayside flowers of summer
The life of Adelia A. Field Johnston who served Oberlin College for thirty-seven years ..
Our native trees and how to identify them
Ethical readings from the Bible
Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them; a Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our Garden Flowers
Our Early Wild Flowers
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them; a Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our Northern Shrubs and How to Identify Them
Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them; a Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities
Our Early Wild Flowers
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them
Our early wild flowers
Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them; a Handbook for the Nature-lover
Our garden flowers
Our native trees and how to identify them
Our native trees and how to identify them
Our garden flowers
The life of Adelia A. Field Johnston who served Oberlin College for thirty-seven years ...
The wild flowers of early spring
Frances Theodora Dana
Frances Theodora Dana (1861-1952)

botanist, naturalist

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Perchance some day
According to season
How to know the ferns
According to season
Plants and their children
How to know the wild flowers
How to Know the Ferns a Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of Our Common Ferns
How to know the ferns
How to know the wild flowers
Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle (born 1951)

agronomist, botanist, poet, cynologist

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The Lightning Dreamer Cubas Greatest Abolitionist
The flying girl
Enchanted air
Soaring Earth
Enchanted Air : Two Cultures, Two Wings
Aire Encantado : Dos Culturas, Dos Alas
The Surrender Tree
Summer birds
Skywriting
Tropical secrets
Singing to Cuba
Because of Shoe and other dog stories
Dancing Hands
The Poet-Slave of Cuba
Hurricane dancers
When you wander
Mountain dog
The firefly letters
Drum dream girl
Enchanted Air
Bravo!
The Lightning Dreamer
Dreams From Many Rivers
The wild book
With a star in my hand
Tiny rabbit's big wish
Lion Island
Hurricane dancers
Silver people
The firefly letters
Orangutanka
Forest world
Tu Corazón, Mi Cielo
Destiny Finds Her Way
Smoketree
Miguel y su valiente caballero
Manos Que Bailan
La selva
All the way to Havana
Light for All
Miguel's Brave Knight
Pregón de Frutas (Song of Frutas)
Jazz owls
Tropical Secrets
Your Heart, My Sky
A Song of Frutas
Forest World
Wings in the Wild (Spanish Edition)
Singing with Elephants
Wings in the Wild
The Poet Slave of Cuba
A dog named Haku
Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish
Escultora de la Luz
IMPERFECT : poems about mistakes
Dancing Hands
Lion Island
Dog Named Haku
Día Del Agua
Jazz Owls
Qiao da meng xiang de nü hai
Surrender Tree
Wild Book
Singing with Elephants
Singing with Elephants 6-Copy SIGNED Prepack W L-Card
Firefly Letters
Mountain Dog
Canto de Los Elefantes
Joven Aviadora
Your Heart, My Sky
Luz para Todos
Flying Girl
Una niña, un tambor, un sueño
Drum Dream Girl
Firefly Letters
Miguel y Su Valiente Caballero
Isla de Leones
Sky Painter
Eloísa's Musical Window
All the Way to Havana
Silver People
Con una Estrella en la Mano
Wild Dreamers (Spanish Edition)
Summer Birds The Butterflies of Maria Merian
Tierra Al Vuelo
día Del Agua (Water Day)
Isla de Leones
Dreams from Many Rivers
Surrender Tree/el árbol de la Rendición
Destiny Finds Her Way
Summer Birds
Hurricane Dancers
Rima's Rebellion
Water Day
Water Day
With a Star in My Hand
Luz para Todos (Light for All)
Song of Frutas
Soaring Earth
Wild Dreamers
Silver People
With a Star in My Hand
Bravo!
Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish
Wings in the Wild
Mountain Dog
Poet Slave of Cuba
Sculptor of Light
Lightning Dreamer
The sky painter
Eloísa y Su Ventanita Musical (Eloísa's Musical Window)
Selva (Forest World)
Morning Star Horse
Cantando con Elefantes / Singing with Elephants
Lion Island
Rebelión de Rima
Wild Book
Rebelión de Rima Marín
Drum Dream Girl
Tropical Secrets
Aire Encantado
Rima's Rebellion
Silver People
The firefly letters
Singing with Elephants
Forest World
Lion Island
Alas Salvajes (Wings in the Wild)
With a Star in My Hand