Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
10 best books like Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds (Olivia Gentile): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, The Life of Birds, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, His Favorites, How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do, Ravens in Winter, A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All, A Weekend in September, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684827123 |
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...
| Author | David Attenborough |
| ISBN | 0563387920 |
Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.
David Attenborough has been...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0618709401 |
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...
| Author | Dan Koeppel |
| ISBN | 1594630011 |
From a well-known outdoors and nature writer comes a narrative that explores a lifelong obsession with competitive birding.
What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father?
Richard Koeppel's obsession began at the age of...
| Author | Kate Walbert |
| ISBN | 1476799393 |
From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women, a searing and timely novel about a teenaged girl, a charismatic teacher, and a dark, open secret.
They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a “borrowed”...
| Author | Stanley Coren |
| ISBN | 0743222334 |
How Dogs Think
is “a sharp-eyed analysis and wry wit” (The Seattle Times) analysis of dog behavior from bestselling author, psychologist, and world-renowned expert, Dr. Stanley Coren. With smart humor, Cohen presents informative, in-depth, and fascinating details that shatter many common...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0679732365 |
The author starts with reports that he has heard, that ravens share their food. And he wonders, "why?" Why, indeed. He formulates dozens of hypotheses that could explain this sharing. And yet, he is not even sure whether or not they truly do share their food.
So the author begins a long, painstaking...
It was an epiphany: The moment two friends showed Luke Dempsey a small bird flitting around the bushes of his country garden, he fell madly in love. But did he really want to be a birder? Didn't that mean he'd be forced to eat granola? And wear a man-pouch? Before he knew it, though, he was lost to birding...
| Author | John Edward Weems |
| ISBN | 0890963908 |
The hurricane that swept Galveston Island early in September, 1900, occupies a unique place in the reckoning of events of the Texas Gulf coast. Nearly a century after its passing, the storm remains the standard against which the ferocity and destructiveness of all others are measured. Twothirds of...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 0544558146 |
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
