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Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

10 best books like Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Christopher Cokinos): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, American Wolf, The Geese of Beaver Bog, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings, Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684827123
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...
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
A guidebook certainly to find its lofty place within my other treasures. My good friend in Florida remarked yesterday, "Birds offer free entertainment", and I could not agree more. A little late in life for me to find a new interest in identifying birds, but owning a cabin in northern Michigan and a small...
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
AuthorTim Birkhead
ISBN1596915412
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in America, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner.

In The Wisdom...
American Wolf
AuthorNate Blakeslee
ISBN1101902809
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...
The Geese of Beaver Bog
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060957387
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...
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476888
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
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...
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0871137976
"Since humanity first wandered from its African birthplace over fifty millennia ago, it has radically altered the environment everywhere it has settled, often at the cost of the creatures that ruled the wild before its arrival. As our prehistoric ancestors spread throughout the globe, they began...
Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
AuthorSuzie Gilbert
ISBN0061563129
I think I read this book at exactly the right time. I currently have a tiny seven-inch-long bearded dragon* in my bedroom. Since getting her on June 13th, things have changed around here. I get up at 6am whether I like it or not because that's when her lights come on and she wakes up, climbs out of her hammock**...
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0151012474
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier...
The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds
AuthorRichard Crossley
ISBN0691147787
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your...
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
AuthorRichard Fortey
ISBN0375706216
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...
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