The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
10 best books like The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild (Craig Childs): Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, Of Wolves and Men, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, Cry of the Kalahari, Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier, Two in the Far North, The Life of Mammals
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957379 |
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...
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0316881791 |
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone—studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou...
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 | William Stolzenburg |
| ISBN | 1596912995 |
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...
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 0684163225 |
Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.
Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection....
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684836262 |
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures...
| Author | Mark Owens |
| ISBN | 0618711880 |
Oh, to be Mark and Delia and lie under the clear sky with only lions for company. That is the stuff of dreams for an animal lover. I feel privileged to have been taken by the authors to Botswana Kalahari and given a glimpse of the rare world out there, so inaccessible to most of us. So for that, thank you, Mark...
| Author | Mark Adams |
| ISBN | 1101985100 |
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.
In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds...
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks,...
| Author | David Attenborough |
| ISBN | 0563534230 |
Of marsupials, mice and men. Evolution, and Sir David Attenborough's 23-year sequence of books and BBC television 'Life' films, have culminated in the mammals and the explosion of awareness and intelligence. In the very short period of 100 million years - a mere blink in evolutionary time - the first...
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"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review
"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...
| Author | Merlin Tuttle |
| ISBN | 0544382277 |
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.
From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect...
| 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...
| Author | Judy Blunt |
| ISBN | 0375701303 |
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.
Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to "rope...
