An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
10 best books like An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect (Sharman Apt Russell): After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses, Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee, Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, The Geese of Beaver Bog, Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World, The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists, Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
| Author | Edwin Murphy |
| ISBN | 0760709246 |
Even though it is widely thought the human adventure ends with death, for a select and celebrated few it continued well beyond the grave. Exhuming some fascinating facts from history, this anthology of "necro-biographies" chronicles the bizarre after-death exploits of several prominent corpses,...
| Author | Hattie Ellis |
| ISBN | 1400054060 |
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throughout history,...
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
| Author | Rafe Sagarin |
| ISBN | 0465021832 |
Despite the billions of dollars we’ve poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport...
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684835096 |
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Personal ethics involves the drawing of lines: I will go as far as this boundary, here, but I will not go beyond. I will defend myself against physical menace but only pacifically. I will fight if attacked but I won't kill. I will kill if my family is threatened but I won't aggress....
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957387 |
When award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich became the unwitting -- but doting -- foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep, he was drawn into her world. And so, with a scientist's training and a nature lover's boundless enthusiasm, he set out to understand the travails and triumphs...
| Author | Richard Conniff |
| ISBN | 0805055312 |
Natural history writer Richard Conniff's journalistic assignments have brought him in contact with invertebrates for more than 20 years--tarantulas of the upper Amazon, dragonflies in Arizona, squid in Florida, and flies on the rim of his beer glass. Here Conniff details his often hilarious encounters...
| Author | Peter Laufer |
| ISBN | 1599215551 |
The whole time I was reading this book I kept thinking that the author was looking for a story that wasn't there. He didn't necessarily invent anything to write this book, but I think his own ignorance and his entitled sense of poetic license meshed to create a sense of suspense and danger where it really...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Lockwood |
| ISBN | 0195333055 |
The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples...
| Author | Dorothy Crawford |
| ISBN | 0198564813 |
Here is a compelling scientific account of viruses, their history, and the dangers they pose--now and in the future. Viruses are disarmingly small and simple. Nevertheless, the smallpox virus killed over 300 million people in the twentieth century before it was eradicated in 1980. The AIDS virus,...
| Author | Colin Tudge |
| ISBN | 0307342042 |
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
| Author | Sue Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0395883245 |
"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things:...
| Author | Lyall Watson |
| ISBN | 1588342166 |
Not all animals are created equal. For a start, pigs have it, sheep don’t; that is, that special quality of intelligence, a sense of play, and a gregariousness that make these tragically misunderstood—yet no less endearing—creatures more like us than any other animal. Best-selling author...
| Author | Katherine Harmon Courage |
| ISBN | 1591845270 |
No one understands the octopus. With eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a disarmingly sentient look behind its highly evolved eyes, how could it appear anything but utterly alien?
Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them. Many cultures...
| Author | Joe Eck |
| ISBN | 0374160317 |
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."
With...
| Author | Marianne Walker |
| ISBN | 1561452319 |
The marriage of Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh was more than a marriage of great love and deep friendship; it was a lucky literary match, both for them and for a world made richer by the creation of GONE WITH THE WIND.
Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews...
| Author | Thor Hanson |
| ISBN | 0465020135 |
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years. Yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through...
| Author | Jessica Speart |
| ISBN | 0061772437 |
One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. And in this cutthroat $200 million business, no one made more money than—or posed as great an ecological danger as—Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers....
| Author | Jennifer A. Mather |
| ISBN | 1604690674 |
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends—from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula...
| Author | William Longgood |
| ISBN | 0393305287 |
This was a wonderful book, but I may be biased in saying this due to my obsession with bees. It's very informative in terms of beekeeping, but it goes beyond that. Longgood not only writes about bees, but he also writes about us, humans. He compares the bee's actions to ours very insightfully. It's clear...
| Author | Henry Gee |
| ISBN | 0226284883 |
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed...
| Author | Richard Jones |
| ISBN | 1586637509 |
A spine-chilling exploration of the haunted sites of Britain and Ireland, and an indispensable guide for ghost-hunters everywhere
More than 130 haunted sites - and many more ghosts - are described in evocative and atmospheric detail
A wealth of biographical information and...
