Nature Wildlife category: 1081 books
Tropical Nature
Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest.
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats,...
by Morgan Dix Wheelock
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Dancing with Nature is a monograph of gardens and sculpture created by Morgan Dix Wheelock, landscape architect, during his forty-five years of professional practice as a landscape architect. He began his professional career as a three-year apprentice to Japans master architect and landscape architect...
Among Wild Horses
A Portrait of the Pryor Mountain Mustangs
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
See the wild horses run! The Pryor Mountain Mustangs have roamed the high desert and mountains of the American West for centuries. Descended from steeds brought over by the Spanish conquistadores, their untamable nature and enduring courage inspire awe in all who have the chance to see them. Photographer...
Beyond Your Doorstep
A Handbook to the Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The inspiring classic on the virtues of embracing the great outdoors from the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay.
Over the course of his career, Hal Borland wrote eight nature books and hundreds of “outdoor editorials” for the Sunday New York Times, extolling the virtues...
The Flight of the Iguana
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.
In the Field, Among the Feathered
A History of Birders and Their Guides
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to...
Adventures with Ari
A Puppy, a Leash & Our Year Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In this “charming, rich, intelligent” memoir, a woman discovers the natural world by following her dog’s lead (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, New York Times–bestselling author of When Elephants Weep).
When she adopted Ari, an exotic Jindo dog, Kathryn Miles steeled herself for the usual disruptions...
A Magic Web
The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community?
In...
On the Edge of the Wild
Passions and Pleasures of a Naturalist
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A “pleasingly eclectic” collection of essays about the author’s love of the wilderness, literature, cooking, dogs, and life itself (Booklist).
On the Edge of the Wild is a stunning collection of essays that shares Stephen Bodio’s passion for the country, wilderness, literature, and much...
The Year Yellowstone Burned
A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 consumed nearly 800,000 acres—36 percent of the park. In the years following, spectacular wildflowers rose from the ashes and trees rapidly reclaimed the landscape. In this twenty-five-year look back at the fires, author and photographer Jeff Henry recalls not only...
by Frederick Courteney Selous
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The chapters comprised in the present volume were written at various times during the last ten years. Some of them have already appeared in print in the pages of the Field, Land and Water, and other papers, but the majority have remained in manuscript until now. The greatest part of the matter in...
by Helen Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
In the farthest wilds of northeastern Minnesota, back in the Gunflint Range, the author of this book and her artist-husband have a two-room cabin home in the bush country. Beginning one Christmas Day when they first watched the starving deer they later named Peter, the Hoovers had many opportunities,...
Bird Stories from Burroughs (Illustrated)
Sketches of Bird Life taken from the Works of John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Naturalist John Burroughs produces another nature classic with this effort. Burroughs provides revealing case studies of a number of fascinating North American bird species in this work such as the crow, chickadee, bobolink and many others.
Burroughs keen insights and superb writing makes this...
Super Species
The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
A gripping examination of invasive species' impact.
Super species are the phenomenally successful invasive life-forms that are dominating ecosystems. These animals, plants and microbes have spread far from their native habitats, most often as a result of human activities.
The key to...