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SARGENT, WILLIAM. A Year In The Notch: Exploring The Natural History Of The White Mountains.
University Press of New England, Hanover: 2001. 1584650117 / 9781584650119 h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
Reminiscences of a year spent exploring Northern New England. In the same format and style of his prize-winning Shallow Waters, William Sargent's latest book chronicles a year spent exploring the North Woods of New Hampshire. Through words and photographs, the man about whom Publishers Weekly wrote, "With his fine descriptions and lucid explanations, Sargent joins the company of Lewis Thomas and Stephen Jay Gould as a first rate interpreter of modern science" investigates a new area's geology, ecology, and natural history. Centered primarily in the Franconia Notch, the book ranges to include Mount Washington Observatory, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Palermo Mine, and New Hampshire Audubon's Peregrine Tagging Program. In a series of lyrical chapters, Sargent takes readers into vernal ponds and moose yards, up mountain summits and into the dens of hibernating bears. He shows that the present pattern of evergreen and deciduous trees we think of as natural is actually the result of centuries of human alteration. Describing how humans have become the newest geophysical force shaping our planet, he ruminates on how well the earth's immune system can withstand the onslaught. Offering up-to-date science on the geology and biology of New England, A Year in the Notch explains the interaction between life, rocks, and water - the intricate dance that keeps our planet alive and makes our own existence possible. William Sargent is a consultant for the NOVA Science Series and has written six books about science and the environment, including Storm Surge: A Coastal Village Battles the Rising Atlantic (1995) and The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine (1988). His Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay (1981) received the Boston Globe Winship award for the best book about New England and was the basis for a NOVA film, The Sea Behind the Dunes, selected by the National Audubon Society as the best natural history film of the year. Formerly Director of the Baltimore Aquarium and a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sargent presently teaches at The Briarwood Center for Marine Biology and at Harvard University.
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; SARGENT, RALPH M. (EDITOR). As You Like It.
Penguin Books, Baltimore: 1963. Reprinted. s Softcover. Very good reading copy.
William Shakespeare's comedy of manners about a Duke and a band of his loyal followers, who steal away to the Forest Arden after being ousted by the Duke's usurping brother. There, they are joined by young Orlando and the Duke's daughter, Rosalind.
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SARGENT, WILLIAM. Storm Surge: A Coastal Village Battles The Rising Atlantic.
University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2004. 1584654066 / 9781584654063 Reprint Edition. s Softcover. Brand new book.
On January 2, 1987, a fierce nor'easter stalled off Cape Cod's Nauset Beach. Pounding waves flattened the low dunes and a foot-high storm surge breached the fragile barrier. Tons of sand and water cascaded through the break. Overnight, the village of Chatham, Massachusetts, faced an amount of sea level rise that most coastal communities won't face for years. Storm Surge tells the dramatic story of the people of Chatham and how they battled to survive the sudden and unexpected disaster. It interweaves the stories of homeowners whose houses were swept away and the fishermen whose livelihoods were threatened, with the public brawls that erupted between dedicated scientists, environmental bureaucrats, law enforcement agencies, and attorneys. It puts a human face on the larger story of other coastal communities around the globe that must inevitably come to grips, as Chatham did, with the environmental impact of a changing world. A compelling tale of a natural disaster and its effects on a small New England community. "Sargent can turn an event as mundane as a rising tide into poetry . . . Storm Surge is a book for everyone who loves the shore, especially Cape Cod."ÑBoston Globe
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SARGENT, WILLIAM. The House On Ipswich Marsh: Exploring The Natural History Of New England,
University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2005. 1584654651 / 9781584654650 h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
A richly layered approach to millions of years of geological and cultural history in an unusual New England biosystem. In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit the public land adjacent to his property. Ipswich Marsh is about these birds, but much else as well. Organized by the seasons of the year, The House on Ipswich Marsh features Sargent's trademark interplay of information about the natural world, ecology, and politics. In "Spring," the reader learns about the geological history of the Marsh; the migration patterns of bobolinks; the courtship flights of woodcocks; ticks and Lyme disease; the mating of horseshoe crabs and the underwater arrival of zooplankton, fish eggs, and moon jellyfish. "Summer" introduces plate tectonics and glaciers; sea level rise and glacial rebound; diving at night among lobsters and stone crabs; a day on Crane's Beach; and a bike trip on Argilla Road. "Autumn" illuminates fishing; the natural and cultural history of Hog Island; harvest time on Appelton Farm; and a Native American Thanksgiving. "Winter" describes the formation of dunes and sandbars; the mating behavior of seals; coyote hunting deer at night; and a late-winter blizzard in which Sargent spies a red-tailed hawk, waiting, like the author, for the return of spring. The contents of the book is as follows: Introduction: The Pink House (April 23, 2004) ¥ PART I: SPRING - Spring Dawn: An Awakening (May 4, 2003) ¥ Return of the Bobolinks (May 4, 2003) ¥ Smith Island (June 9, 2003) ¥ PART II: SUMMER - Crane's Beach (July 1, 2003) ¥ The Paine House (July 27, 2003) ¥ The Matriarch: A Time of Rapid Change (August 27, 2003) ¥ In Suspect Terrane: A Billion Years, in One Short Paddle (August 27, 2003) ¥ Hog Island (September 17, 2003) ¥ PART III: AUTUMN - Crane's Beach (July 1, 2003) ¥ Autumn Migrations (October 15, 2003) ¥ Man and Coyotes (October 30, 2003) ¥ Ipswich Clams (November 19, 2003) ¥ The Deer Hunt (December 5, 2003) ¥ PART IV: WINTER - Why the New England Patriots Beat the Miami Dolphins: A Tale of Snow, Cold, and Mitochondria (December 8, 2003) ¥ Coping with Winter (January 19, 2004) ¥ The Magnolias of Ravenswood Park (February 18, 2004) ¥ A New View of Nature, A New View for Ipswich: The New England Biolabs Campus (February 23, 2004) ¥ PART V: CONCLUSIONS - The Big Night (March 31, 2004) ¥ Local Heroes (April 11, 2004) ¥ Index. "William Sargent, who has also written extensively about the world's environment, instead in The House on Ipswich Marsh ventures barely a half-dozen miles from his home to discover "a quest that could last a lifetime."ÑBoston Globe
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SARGENT, WILLIAM. Writing Naturally: A Memoir.
University Press of New England, Hanover: 2006. 1584654686 / 9781584654681 Uncorrected Proof. s Softcover. Very good condition.
A science writer reflects on his journey into the profession. William Sargent, relative of the painter John Singer Sargent and son of a former governor of Massachusetts, was primed early for a career in politics, but since boyhood he was far more interested in science than in traditional forms of public service. Nonetheless, at Harvard University he declared himself a government majorÑa plan that gave way the day he had lunch at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where huge plaster casts of dinosaur tracks and the smell of formaldehyde triggered in the freshman his inborn love of nature. Sargent immediately switched from government to biology. As a science major in the 1960s, Sargent enjoyed the instruction and guidance of such luminaries as E. O. Wilson, James Watson, Jane Goodall, Louis Leakey, and Stephen Jay Gould, all pioneers in their respective fields. As a sophomore, Sargent joined a crew of scientists and sailors on a six-month cruise, collecting plankton off the coasts of South America, Africa, and the Baltic region. The voyage whetted Sargent's taste for travel and sharpened his eye to the diversity of the natural world. Since then, and for more than thirty years, his subjects have ranged from horseshoe crabs on Cape Cod to Rhesus monkeys off Puerto Rico to the intimate ecology of the Massachusetts marsh where he lives. Pursuing the biological and natural sciences as a journalist, author, and filmmaker, Sargent has remained firm in his principal quest: to make the natural world accessible to all. Writing Naturally braids together three themes. It is a personal narrative of the author's life, paying attention to his long-term interest in science; it is an accessible look at the evolution of biology over the past thirty years (from an academic backwater to a powerful academic industrial complex); and it is a guide for writing about science and nature. Sargent's own career was not without missteps (he chronicles his misguided efforts to get a law degree), but in the end he forged a very satisfying nontraditional career as a scientist, photographer, and writerÑa career based on his notion of "writing naturally": writing in a clear and relaxed manner about what one loves best. "This memoir is both enjoyable and informative and written in a style that will be embraced by all who love science and nature, reading, and writing."ÑBooklist
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SARGENT, WILLIAM. Writing Naturally: A Memoir.
University Press of New England, Hanover: 2006. 1584654686 / 9781584654681 First Edition. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
A science writer reflects on his journey into the profession. William Sargent, relative of the painter John Singer Sargent and son of a former governor of Massachusetts, was primed early for a career in politics, but since boyhood he was far more interested in science than in traditional forms of public service. Nonetheless, at Harvard University he declared himself a government majorÑa plan that gave way the day he had lunch at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where huge plaster casts of dinosaur tracks and the smell of formaldehyde triggered in the freshman his inborn love of nature. Sargent immediately switched from government to biology. As a science major in the 1960s, Sargent enjoyed the instruction and guidance of such luminaries as E. O. Wilson, James Watson, Jane Goodall, Louis Leakey, and Stephen Jay Gould, all pioneers in their respective fields. As a sophomore, Sargent joined a crew of scientists and sailors on a six-month cruise, collecting plankton off the coasts of South America, Africa, and the Baltic region. The voyage whetted Sargent's taste for travel and sharpened his eye to the diversity of the natural world. Since then, and for more than thirty years, his subjects have ranged from horseshoe crabs on Cape Cod to Rhesus monkeys off Puerto Rico to the intimate ecology of the Massachusetts marsh where he lives. Pursuing the biological and natural sciences as a journalist, author, and filmmaker, Sargent has remained firm in his principal quest: to make the natural world accessible to all. Writing Naturally braids together three themes. It is a personal narrative of the author's life, paying attention to his long-term interest in science; it is an accessible look at the evolution of biology over the past thirty years (from an academic backwater to a powerful academic industrial complex); and it is a guide for writing about science and nature. Sargent's own career was not without missteps (he chronicles his misguided efforts to get a law degree), but in the end he forged a very satisfying nontraditional career as a scientist, photographer, and writerÑa career based on his notion of "writing naturally": writing in a clear and relaxed manner about what one loves best. "This memoir is both enjoyable and informative and written in a style that will be embraced by all who love science and nature, reading, and writing."ÑBooklist
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