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100 Dives of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Underwater Destinations
Carrie Miller · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Explore 100 breathtaking scuba diving sites around the world--from the cenotes of Mexico to the best wreck in Micronesia--through stunning National Geographic photography, expert tips, and cutting-edge travel advice.Filled with more than 350 images from National Geographic, 100 Dives of a Lifetime... |
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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species
Marybeth Lima · LSU Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana's avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of 300 species of birds. Bisected by the Mississippi... |
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Pam Houston · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons,... |
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Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
Bryce Andrews · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Andrews' wonderful Downfrom the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts...Welcome and impressive work." - Barry Lopez The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they... |
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded... |
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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding
Ted Floyd · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching.How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal... |
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The Last Elephants
Don Pinnock · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservationAfrican savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent... |
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The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
Thomas D. Seeley · Princeton University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas... |
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions
Frans de Waal · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which... |
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The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Alex Dehgan · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape.Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty.... |
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