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Horizon
Barry Lopez · Knopf
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life.Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from modern... |
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers... |
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The Empire of the Eagle: An Illustrated Natural History
Mike Unwin · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world's sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence and beguiling diversity Eagles hold a unique allure among birds for their combination of power, grace, and predatory prowess. Captivating the human imagination,... |
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An Elephant in My Kitchen
Françoise Malby-Anthony · Pan Macmillan
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A blonde, chic Parisienne, Francoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But when she fell in love with renowned conservationist Lawrence Anthony her life took an unexpected turn. Lawrence died in 2012 and Francoise was left to face the tough reality of running... |
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The Book of Snakes: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
Mark O'Shea · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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For millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional combination of fascination and revulsion. Some people recoil in fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while others happily keep them as pets. Snakes can convey both beauty and menace in a single tongue flick and so these... |
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
RDE MacPhee · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth.Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller -- including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more -- roamed the earth. These... |
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