The Elephant Whisperer: My Life With ...
Lawrence AnthonyWhen South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of ...
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save On...
Lawrence AnthonyWhen Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the...
The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, ...
Gregory A. FreemanIn October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic-a clash that would prove dramat...
Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Inco...
Jackson GalaxyCat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what you might expect for a cat expert (as the New York Times noted, with his goatee and tattoos he ...
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Ch...
Charles MooreIn the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pa...
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered...
Amy StewartAmy Stewart follows her wildly successful national bestseller Wicked Plants with an investigation of the insects, worms, and spiders that have tormented humankind for centuries.
Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disob...
Henry David ThoreauLARGE PRINT ILLUSTRATED This book established the credentials of Thoreau to forever speak for America's love of natural beauty. Walden is about a man, a pond, and the great woods of the country By Henry Thoreau.
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wil...
Edward AbbeyWhen Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary...
The Big Thirst: A Tour of the Bitter ...
Charles FishmanFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Wal-Mart Effect comes a fascinating journey into the secret life of water, a book that upends everything we think we know about the most vital substance in our lives.
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nut...
Thor HansonWe live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and...
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connecti...
Marah J. HardtForget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon...
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in ...
David George HaskellIn this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the sea...
Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: ...
Dan RiskinIt may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread t...
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and ...
Carl SafinaWeaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond...
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprisi...
Noah StryckerBirds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, re...
[Read by Simon Vance] The predecessor to Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, T. H. White's nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and...
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches H...
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The Breath of a Whale: The Science an...
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The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science...
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