Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
8 best books like Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers (Amy Sutherland): Dragon Rider, A Briefer History of Time, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives, The Inkheart Trilogy: Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Long Way Down, The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Classic Coming of Age Story
--Minus the love triangles, savior complexes, and completely stupid decisions that plague many of the YA fiction I've read
The Dragons of this world are scattered. The packs have long been broken up and devoured by the Golden One. Firedrake the Dragon remembers...
A Briefer History of Time
| Author | Stephen Hawking |
| ISBN | 0553804367 |
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another; the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the...
| Author | Lawrence Anthony |
| ISBN | 1250004519 |
When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In "The Last Rhinos," Anthony recounts...
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
| Author | Thomas French |
| ISBN | 1401323464 |
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for...
| Author | Cornelia Funke |
| ISBN | 1905294964 |
The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling,...
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
| Author | Richard Preston |
| ISBN | 1400064899 |
Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...
| Author | Ewan McGregor |
| ISBN | 1847440533 |
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure...
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew...
| Author | Lucy H. Spelman |
| ISBN | 0385341466 |
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the...
