A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
10 best books like A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All (Luke Dempsey): Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival, Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird, Ravens in Winter
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957379 |
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations...
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684827123 |
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0618709401 |
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
| Author | Philip Connors |
| ISBN | 0061859362 |
A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks...
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
| Author | Kristin Kimball |
| ISBN | 1416551603 |
"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living...
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
| Author | Peter Stark |
| ISBN | 0062218298 |
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled...
| Author | Olivia Gentile |
| ISBN | 1596911697 |
A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history—and ends up risking her life again and again in the wildest places on earth.
Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four...
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying...
| Author | Andrew D. Blechman |
| ISBN | 0802118348 |
In the tradition of Robert Sullivan’s best-selling Rats comes a whimsical and intimate look into the fascinating world of pigeons and the people they collect. Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0679732365 |
The author starts with reports that he has heard, that ravens share their food. And he wonders, "why?" Why, indeed. He formulates dozens of hypotheses that could explain this sharing. And yet, he is not even sure whether or not they truly do share their food.
So the author begins a long, painstaking...
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
| Author | Kate Harris |
| ISBN | 0345816781 |
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"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."
As a teenager,...
