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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

10 best books like A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Samantha Weinberg): The Life of Birds, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time, Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Jock of the Bushveld, The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, Floreana, Strange Objects, Three Weeks in December

The Life of Birds
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0563387920
Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.

David Attenborough has been...
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time
AuthorMichael J. Benton
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed,...
Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
AuthorNick Lane
ISBN0198607830
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death. He shows how oxygen underpins the origin of biological complexity, the birth of photosynthesis, the sudden evolution of animals, the need for two...
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
AuthorMark Kurlansky
ISBN0099268701
The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the...
Jock of the Bushveld
AuthorJ. Percy FitzPatrick
ISBN0868520586
Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written and is dedicated by Fitzpatrick to '...those keenest and kindest of critics, best of friends and most...
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
AuthorDelia Owens
ISBN0395680905
I really wanted to love this book. I tried. The information and the story of what these two conservationists have done is amazing, however the overly flowery descriptions and romanticized views of Africa almost drowned out the reason for the book. In North Lunagwa National Park in Zambia the elephants...
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
AuthorPaul Greenberg
ISBN1594202567
Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of...
Floreana
AuthorMargret Wittmer
ISBN0904614336
A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos. A breath-taking firsthand account of Wittmer's successful attempt to settle the island of Floreana. In 1932, Margaret Wittmer leaves Germany with her husband and step-son and travels to Floreana, a small, almost unpopulated island in the Galapagos chain,...
Strange Objects
AuthorGary Crew
ISBN1863301135
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
Three Weeks in December
AuthorAudrey Schulman
ISBN1609450647
In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked...
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
AuthorClaire Nouvian
ISBN0226595668
On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters—the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where...
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
AuthorWendy Williams
ISBN0810984652
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
AuthorCourtney White
ISBN1603585451
This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?

The quick answers are: Build topsoil....
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography
AuthorDouglas Botting
ISBN0786707968
Written with complete access to the Durrell family archives and Gerald Durrell's private papers, this affecting biography follows its subject from an eccentric boyhood in Imperial India to the international prominence he gained in print and on television as one of the world's foremost animal conservationists....
The Aye-Aye and I
AuthorGerald Durrell
ISBN0671884395
Here is the riveting tale of Gerald Durrell's adventures and misadventures in the enchanted forests of Madagascar, in search of the elusive Aye-aye. Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-aye, the beast with the magic finger, still lurks, though in fast dwindling numbers, in the forests of Madagascar....
A Far Off Place
AuthorLaurens van der Post
ISBN0156301989
This was a rrreeeaaallllllyyy dark book at first, to be honest. I'd already seen the 1993 Walt Disney film, also dark (yes, Disney did have a film involving the massacre of multiple people, ivory poaching and plenty of cursing and swearing) but the book is all-the-more emotional about it. Still, it's...
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