Nature Wildlife category: 1081 books
The Reluctant Twitcher
A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities. Richard Pope, a lifelong birder, had successfully avoided this latter pursuit for many years but capitulated in 2007 when he embarked on his "Big...
by Joel Mader
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
The Cleveland Public School�s tract garden program was one of the most successful and innovative programs of the school system. The organization and beauty of the gardens attracted horticulture educators from all over the United States, South America, and as far away as Japan. From its humble beginnings...
The Boilerplate Rhino
Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted *Outside'*s...
by David Crum
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Everyone hates to wait and wait and wait. We wait at the laundromat, we wait for the Doctor, Dentist, and x-rays, and we wait at the airport, bus stop, and the taxi to arrive. We wait between classes, in traffic when the road is blocked, for car repair, and on Black Friday we wait to get the best...
by Alan Dean Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators
Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels...
Fly Fishing the Malheur River
An Excerpt from Fly Fishing Central & Southeastern Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Fly Fishing the Malheur River is an excerpt from the larger book Fly Fishing Central & Southeastern Oregon, which covers 22 waters including small streams, large rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Detailed maps, photographs, and Harry Teel's wisdom guide you through the many waters in this area. Known hatches,...
My Cousin & Me
And Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
We left paradise when I was five and moved to the city to live with my mother’s sister. I later learned, there were two reasons for this move: so that my parents could find work and I could attend school. My mother was sympathetic toward my desire to return to the farm, so every
July 1 she took...
Bugs Up Close
A Magnified Look at the Incredible World of Insects
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Bugs are usually so small that we hardly notice them, let alone think of them as living beings. But call upon the magnifying glass, and a shapeless jumble of legs, wings, and antennae suddenly start staring back at us.
About 80 percent of the Earth’s animals are insects. While there are millions...
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia is the best, most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Indonesia.
Because of its vast size and geographical location, Indonesia has the world's most diverse avifauna. It boasts of more than 1,600 species—of which 235 rare birds are...
Moon By Whale Light
And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures.
About This Life
Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man.
With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez...
Walking Home
A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey...
Eating Stone
Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone...
The Exultant Ark
A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range...