false 9691 1 0 male 334212 067973855X 9780679738558 31 <![CDATA[Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173838516m/334212.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334212.Motoring_with_Mohammed_Journeys_to_Yemen_and_the_Red_Sea 3.98 133 As he tells of the turbulent seas that stranded him on the island and of his efforts to retrieve his buried journals when he returned to Yemen ten years later, Hansen enthralls us with a portrait -- uncannily sympathetic and wildly offbeat -- of this forgotten corner of the Middle East. With a host of extraordinary characters from his guide, Mohammed, ever on the lookout for one more sheep to squeeze into the back seat of his car, to madcap expatriates and Eritrean gun runners- and with landscapes that include cities of dreamlike architectural splendor, endless sand dunes, and terrifying mountain passes, Hansen reveals the indelible allure of a land steeped in custom, conflicts old and new, and uncommon beauty.

]]> 9691 3.96 503 105 15667 0375724958 9780375724954 20 <![CDATA[Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166676874m/15667.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15667.Stranger_in_the_Forest_On_Foot_Across_Borneo 4.09 123
At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story, Stranger in the Forest provides a rare and intimate look at the vanishing way of life of one of the last surviving groups of rain forest dwellers. Hansen's absorbing, and often chilling, account of his exploits is tempered with the humor and humanity that prompted the Penan to take him into their world and to share their secrets.]]> 9691 3.96 503 105 785418 0679771832 9780679771838 24 <![CDATA[Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178328864m/785418.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785418.Orchid_Fever_A_Horticultural_Tale_of_Love_Lust_and_Lunacy 3.98 123 With such willing customers, it's no wonder that a thriving black market now exists. To serve it, orchids are taken illegally from sensitive ecological areas in places like Thailand, Borneo, and darkest Minnesota. In scenes reminiscent of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, Hansen follows the trail of orchid smugglers, pursuing money and plants in a whodunit tale that involves botanical gardens, scholars, scientists, ordinary enthusiasts, and "plant cops"--international eco-police whose job it is to stop the traffic in rare and often endangered plants. Those vigilantes have their work cut out for them, Hansen writes, especially because some of the current laws may be misguided, causing more harm than good and equating honest breeders with botanical desperadoes. The laws are bound to fail in any event, he suggests, if only because the plant trade, like that of the drug trade, is simply too big to curtail.

Orchid enthusiasts and admirers of good journalism alike will find plenty of interest in Hansen's vivid, richly anecdotal investigation. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 9691 3.96 503 105 735389 0679771824 9780679771821 20 <![CDATA[The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177828310m/735389.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/735389.The_Bird_Man_and_the_Lap_Dancer_Close_Encounters_with_Strangers 3.79 85 9691 3.96 503 105 899996 0762711728 9780762711727 2 <![CDATA[Hiking Wisconsin (State Hiking Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179291351m/899996.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899996.Hiking_Wisconsin 3.25 8 AHS
</div>]]> 9691 3.96 503 105 900004 0871563509 9780871563507 0 <![CDATA[The Traveler]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179291353m/900004.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/900004.The_Traveler 4.75 4 9691 3.96 503 105 899992 0762725885 9780762725885 1 <![CDATA[Hiking Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Hiking Guide Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179291350m/899992.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899992.Hiking_Michigan_s_Upper_Peninsula 5.00 1 </div>]]> 9691 3.96 503 105 7378737 0753110032 9780753110034 0 <![CDATA[Orchid Fever]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7378737-orchid-fever 0.0 0 9691 3.96 503 105 2503938 3.73 74 23 7183965 1559636289 9781559636285 0 <![CDATA[The Business of Sustainable Forestry Case Study - STORA: Stora The Road To Certification]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7183965-the-business-of-sustainable-forestry-case-study-stora 0.0 0 We changed our attitudes, we listened, we learned, we cooperated, and we took the initiative. - Granqvist, supervising forester, STOR.

Over the past ten years, Swedish forest products giant STORA has transformed its forest management to implement and verify a commitment to sustainable forestry. The company has hired a staff ecologist, implemented ecological landscape planning, brought local environmentalists into its management planning, retrained its workforce, and adopted new forest conservation measures. Most recently, STORA became Europe's first major timber company to have a large block of its forests certified by a third party as sustainably managed.

Headquartered in Falun, Sweden, STORA is one of the largest forest products companies in the world with 1996 sales of $5.9 billion. The company ranks fifth worldwide in paper and board production, producing 1.9% of the world's production compared to 3.2% for industry leader, International Paper Co. STORA sells primarily paper products, but also runs four sawmills and is involved in power production, banking, and associated financial operations. The company owns a total of 2.3 million hectares of forest, primarily in Sweden, but it has holdings in Portugal and Canada, as well.

In 1996 STORA became one of the first large commercial forestry operations in the world to attain third-party certification. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the oldest and most credible certification system with environmentalists, certified STORA's holding in the Ludvika district. STORA's size and its importance in the global forest products industry makes its actions a milestone in the development of sustainable forestry. As STORA's evolution toward sustainable forestry indicates, certification has already become a strategic consideration for some forward-looking companies.

]]> 9691 3.96 503 105 1830242 0.0 0 0 1466890 0.0 0 0 7101163 0679451412 9780679451419 0 <![CDATA[Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7101163-orchid-fever 0.0 0
From the steaming jungles of Borneo to the hallowed hallways of Kew Gardens, from the clandestine orchid nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of northern Minnesota, here are luscious, sexy flowers, orchid smugglers, fist-fighting botanists, moths with twelve-inch-long tongues, and government officials who raid orchid nurseries with attack dogs and automatic weapons. Strange tales of insect pollinator fidelity, the orchid ice cream makers of eastern Turkey, and man-crushing killer orchids weighing half a ton are blended with stories about a wide range of gentle people whose passion in life is the creation of scented, fragile flowers.

Eric Hansen spent seven years exploring the far corners of the earth -- marveling at flowers of uncommon beauty, studying the history of the orchid trade, and grappling with the vicious, bizarre, and petty world of plant politics that sometimes makes it impossible to protect endangered species. Hansen brings to life the colorful flowers and the even more colorful people who are attracted to them, as he illuminates a funny, weird, and poignant world of horticultural passion and pathos.]]> 9691 3.96 503 105