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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction
David Norman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today... |
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A History of Birds
SIMON WILLS · White Owl
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Even the most well-informed wildlife enthusiast will be entertained by the stories and fascinating facts in the beautifully illustrated book.Our ancestors hunted, tamed, worshipped and depicted birds, and even bestowed magical properties upon them. Why did ancient writers consider the sparrow... |
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Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight
Peter Marren · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Like fluttering shards of stained glass, butterflies possess a unique power to pierce and stir the human soul. Indeed, the ancient Greeks explicitly equated the two in a single word, psyche, so that from early times butterflies were not only a form of life, but also an idea. Profound and deeply... |
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon;
Alan Tennant · Knopf
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover
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In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant, a passionate observer of nature, recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon - an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths. On the Wing transports us from the windswept... |
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger · Norton
Pages: 227
Format: Print book
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The bestselling book that became the blockbuster film starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Diane Lane. In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester,... |
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The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans
Alastair Fothergill · DK ADULT; 1st edition
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"From space, Planet Earth is blue. It floats like a jewel in the inky black void. The reflection of the sun's light from the vast expanse of water covering its surface creates it gemlike blue color. In the entire solar system, Earth is the only planet that has water in liquid form... |
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Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd
Barry Clifford · William Morrow
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
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When history's most famous pirate, Captain Kidd, was hanged in 1701, he left behind a trail of treasure and treachery that stretched halfway around the world. For undersea explorer Barry Clifford, the biggest prize of all would be to find the Adventure Galley, Kidd's legendary pirate ship.... |
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Darwin's Fossils: The Collection That Shaped the Theory of Evolution
ADAM LISTER · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Reveals how Darwin's study of fossils shaped his scientific thinking and led to his development of the theory of evolution.Darwin's Fossils is an accessible account of Darwin's pioneering work on fossils, his adventures in South America, and his relationship with the scientific... |
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Chosen by a Horse
Susan Richards · Mariner Books; Reprint edition
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldnt be corralled into her waiting trailer Instead Lay Me Down a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels walked right up that ramp and into Susans life This gentle creaturemalnourished plagued by pneumonia and an eye infectionhad endured... |
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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Douglas Brinkley · HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelts crusade on behalf of Americas national parks the same qualities that made TR so fascinating a figure—an astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style and an inexhaustible... |
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Annalee Newitz · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In its billionndashyear history life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times shattered by asteroid impacts entombed in ice smothered by methane and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way Can we survive... |
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