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Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs

10 best books like Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs (Sue Hubbell): Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird, The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales, Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals, Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth, Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World, The Edge of the Sea, Summer World: A Season of Bounty

Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You
AuthorClare Walker Leslie
ISBN1580174930
Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine,...
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865475911
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000...
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
AuthorTim Birkhead
ISBN0802779662
Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience. What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers...
The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0517156784
This book had been on my reading list for a while, ever since I read The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds, which I loved. I finally got a hold of it through my library's inter-library exchange. (I love my library!)

The book has 4 main sections focusing on 4 different animals:...
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
AuthorSue Halpern
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,...
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
AuthorMerlin Tuttle
ISBN0544382277
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.

From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect...
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN1571313001
Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution...
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World
AuthorRichard Conniff
ISBN0805055312
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...
The Edge of the Sea
AuthorRachel Carson
ISBN0844670146
"The edge of the sea is a strange & beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental & conservation...
Summer World: A Season of Bounty
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742178
“Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell….A national treasure.”

—Los Angeles Times

 

Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich,...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
The Living Planet
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0563202076
(Also has Collins ISBN - 0002191393)

Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and man thrive or survive within the extremes of climate and almost infinite variety of domicile which it offers. Single species and often whole communities, adapt to make the most of ice-cap and tundra,...
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802136656
Flannery travels to the unexplored regions of New Guinea in search of species that science has yet to discover or classify. He finds many -- from a community of giant cave bats that were supposedly extinct to the elusive black-and-white tree-kangaroo -- and along the way has a wealth of unforgettable...
Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
AuthorDavid W. Wolfe
ISBN0738206792
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David W. Wolfe lifts the veil on this hidden world, revealing...
The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World
AuthorElizabeth Marshall Thomas
ISBN0061792101
In The Hidden Life of Deer, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs, turns her attention to wild deer, and the many lessons we can learn by observing nature. A narrative masterpiece and a naturalist’s delight, The Hidden Life of Deer is based...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune

In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
When the Sick Rule the World
AuthorDodie Bellamy
ISBN1584351683
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Sick Rule the World collects Dodie Bellamy's new and recent lyric prose. Taking on topics as eclectic as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, Bellamy here examines illness, health, and the body -- both the social body and the individual...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0618246983
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
AuthorStephen R. Palumbi
ISBN1597264350
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial...
Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0547248326
Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don’t really understand what’s in front of them.Today birders have access to almost too much information, and their attempts to identify birds can be drowned out by excess detail. The all-new Kaufman Field...
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
AuthorBarbara Hurd
ISBN0618215123
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In...
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