Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve

10 best books like Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve (Alan Rabinowitz): Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad., On Such a Full Sea, Head Lopper, Vol. 2: Head Lopper and the Crimson Tower, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, Where the Shadows Lie, The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind, Scribbling the Cat

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Author	Geraldine Brooks
ISBN	0385475772

With a New Afterword

As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Author

Michael Pollan

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects...

The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.

Author	Jonathan Hickman
ISBN	1607066084

Picked this up on a whim, just because I've been impressed with Hickman's work in the past....

And I wasn't disappointed. Weird story, funny bits, interesting premise.

I liked it well enough that I bought the rest of the series based on the strength of this single book. That says something...

I'll...

On Such a Full Sea

Author	Chang-rae Lee
ISBN	1594486107

Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.

On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity,...

Head Lopper, Vol. 2: Head Lopper and the Crimson Tower

Author	Andrew MacLean
ISBN	1534305084

In a quiet region of the world, an ancient evil stirs. The CRIMSON TOWER is awake! Blood has not wet its face for an age, but the tower runs red once more. Warriors from distant lands are drawn to its gate with revenge, or glory, in their hearts. Many will enter, few will return.

The HEAD LOPPER and...

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Author

Daniel L. Everett

A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.

Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young...

Where the Shadows Lie

Author	Michael Ridpath
ISBN	1848873972

Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power.

A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumours can be believed, there is something much more valuable...

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

Author	Bruce Barcott
ISBN	1400062934

First read in June 2008. Reread in December 2016. I liked the book just as well the second time, I'm happy to say. Below is my original review written in 2008. Since that time I have, in fact, visited Belize, though we stayed on a caye and never visited the zoo or saw most of the places mentioned in the book.

I'm...

Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

Author	David Quammen
ISBN	1844133230

For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals...

Scribbling the Cat

Author	Alexandra Fuller
ISBN	0330433997

When Alexandra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scibbled the cat, he told her. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange...

Head Lopper, Vol. 1: The Island or A Plague of Beasts

Author	Andrew MacLean
ISBN	1632158868

The Head Lopper, Norgal, and the nagging severed head of Agatha Blue Witch arrive on the Isle of Barra to find it overrun with beasts; minions of the Sorcerer of the Black Bog. When Queen Abigail hires Norgal and Agatha to slay the Sorcerer, our heroes trek across the island relieving the horrors of their...