Carl Safina: 11 books
The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south...
Voyage of the Turtle
In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
A Sea in Flames
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story...
Die Intelligenz der Tiere
Wie Tiere fühlen und denken
Language: German
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Was geht im Inneren von Tieren vor? Können wir wissen, wie sie fühlen und denken? Carl Safina nimmt uns mit auf abenteuerliche Entdeckungsreisen in die unbekannte Welt der Elefanten, Wölfe und Orcas. Sein spannend zu lesendes Buch erzählt außergewöhnliche Geschichten von Freude, Trauer, Eifersucht,...
Eye of the Albatross
Visions of Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he...
Becoming Wild
How Animals Learn Who They Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2020
New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them.
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human...
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?
Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,...
Song for the Blue Ocean
Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth about the world's changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, science, and political analysis.
Mentes maravillosas
Lo que piensan y sienten los animales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Entrelazando décadas de observaciones de campo con nuevos y sorprendentes escubrimientos sobre el cerebro, Mentes maravillosas ofrece una visión íntima de la conducta animal que suprime las clásicas fronteras que separaban hasta ahora a los seres humanos del resto de animales. En el libro, los...
by Carl Safina
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2020
Eye-opening, wise, and filled with triumphant and heartbreaking stories about the wolf population at Yellowstone (as well as some personal anecdotes about dogs), Beyond Words: What Wolves and Dogs Think and Feel accessibly explores the mysteries of animal thought and behavior for young readers.
Weaving...
Let the People Judge
Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
"One of the mserious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independmovemof small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations...