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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

10 best books like Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West (Michael Punke): Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, Gods and Generals, Love and Death Among the Cheetahs, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, Field Notes on Science & Nature, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060957379
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.

From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations...
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1596912995
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.

It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and flying...
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
AuthorJonathan Weiner
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin...
Gods and Generals
AuthorJeff Shaara
ISBN1841580651
In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara explores the lives of Generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson and Chamberlain as the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg approaches.

Shaara captures the disillusionment of both Lee and Hancock early in their...
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
AuthorRhys Bowen
Georgie and Darcy are finally on their honeymoon in Kenya's Happy Valley, but murder crashes the party in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series.

Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It...
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
AuthorTimothy Egan
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying...
A Parchment of Leaves
AuthorSilas House
ISBN0345464974
Winner-Kentucky Novel of the Year, 2003
Winner-Award for Special Achievement from Fellowship of Southern
Writers
Nominee-Southern Book Critics Circle Prize
Nominee-BookSense Book of the Year (longlist)

"So it is that Vine, Cherokee-born and raised in the early 1900s,...
The Coal Tattoo
AuthorSilas House
ISBN0345480058
Life isn’t easy for twenty-two year old Easter and her teenage sister Anneth, who were left parentless as young children. While Easter, a devout Pentecostal, finds solace in the powerful music of her church, Anneth seeks comfort in the rougher edges of life found in dancing, drinking, and fast living....
Field Notes on Science & Nature
AuthorMichael R. Canfield
ISBN0674057570
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

What...
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465052614
From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
The Counter-Creationism Handbook
AuthorMark Isaak
ISBN0520249267
Those opposed to the teaching of evolution often make well-rehearsed claims about the science that sound powerful and convincing. And many people who support the teaching of evolution—students, teachers, parents, administrators—do not have the background to respond. They know that scientists...
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