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10 best books like Summer World: A Season of Bounty (Bernd Heinrich): Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve, Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee, Life in the Undergrowth, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America, Honeybee Democracy

Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish
AuthorJames Prosek
ISBN0060566116
Tour through the life history and cultural associations of the freshwater eel, exploring its biology in streams and epic migrations in the ocean, its myth and lore, its mystery and beauty. Prosek travels the globe to tell the story of the eel--from New York to New Zealand; from Europe to Japan and the...
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
AuthorAlan Rabinowitz
ISBN1559638028
In 1983, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz ventured into the rain forest of Belize, determined to study the little-known jaguar in its natural habitat and to establish the world's first jaguar preserve. Within two years, he had succeeded. In Jaguar he provides the only first-hand account of a scientist's...
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
AuthorJuliet Eilperin
ISBN0375425128
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species...
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
AuthorBill Schutt
ISBN0307381129
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using...
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
AuthorHattie Ellis
ISBN1400054060
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throughout history,...
Life in the Undergrowth
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0691127034
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.


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Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0679400621
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
AuthorEric Simons
ISBN1590202201
"One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the world," at the end of the long trip designed to put as much distance as possible between himself and a frustrating post-college job, Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had...
Honeybee Democracy
AuthorThomas D. Seeley
ISBN0691147213
Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned...
The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From & How They Live
AuthorColin Tudge
ISBN0307342042
This is a book that took me longer to read than any other book of 2016. And I stuck to the read diligently. But I think it is only going to be appreciated by those with scientific classification onus and supreme interest and patient love of BIRDS. There are many species and this is no short cut to their placements,...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
AuthorBarbara Hurd
ISBN0618215123
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In...
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...
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
AuthorRachel Carson
ISBN0807085472
Making America Great Again

From “Mr. Day’s Dismissal”: A Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, April 22, 1953.

In 1952 Republicans won the White House and immediately began dismantling environmental protections in favor of big business concerns. Day was fired as Secretary...
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
AuthorMike Shanahan
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.”

Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history...
Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest
AuthorJoan Maloof
In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof’s engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections...
The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them
AuthorElizabeth Royte
ISBN0618257586
This mischievous behind-the-scenes account of life at a biological research station on a Panamanian island "conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] field work" (Science). Journalist Elizabeth Royte weaves together her own adventures on Barro Colorado with tales of...
The Illustrated Insectopedia
AuthorHugh Raffles
ISBN0375423869
A New York Times Notable Book

A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
 
For as long as humans have existed, insects have been...
The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
AuthorMarc Bekoff
ISBN1577316495
In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the world’s leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and “expanding our compassion footprint.” He demonstrates that animals experience a rich...
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0380717387
I promised a second review / rant about people I hate. This is it. This time it's Smug Environmentalists. The hate will manifest as the review goes on.

Natural Acts is a collection of essays, which mostly appeared originally in the authors column in "Outside" magazine. The essays mostly look...
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0393338754
"It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose."—Washington Post

In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman...
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
AuthorSteve Jones
This the fourth of Steve Jones's series of books based on the works of Charles Darwin. Jones's Almost Like a Whale (1999) having been based on The Origin of Species (1859) which was followed by Y: The Descent of Men (2002), based on Darwin's Descent of Man (1871), and Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise ...
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