The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History

6 best books like The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History (Alan Turner): Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Oath of Gold, The Life of Mammals, In a Time of Violence: Poems, The Altar of the Dead, Second Childhood: Poems

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Author	Marlon James
ISBN	0735220174

In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.

Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy...

Oath of Gold

Author	Elizabeth Moon
ISBN	0671697986

Paksenarrion-—Paks for short-—was somebody special. Never could she have followed her father's orders and married the pig farmer down the road. Better a soldier's life than a pigfarmer's wife, and so though she knew that she could never go home again, Paks ran away to be a soldier. And so began an...

The Life of Mammals

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...

In a Time of Violence: Poems

Author	Eavan Boland
ISBN	0393312984

I am rather fond of this one:

The Pomegranate - by Eavan Boland

The only legend I have ever loved is
the story of a daughter lost in hell.
And found and rescued there.
Love and blackmail are the gist of it.
Ceres and Persephone the names.
And the best thing about the...

The Altar of the Dead

Author	Henry James
ISBN	1406518379

Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and...

Second Childhood: Poems

Author	Fanny Howe
ISBN	1555976824

The new poetry collection by Fanny Howe, whose "body of work seems larger, stranger, and more permanent with each new book she publishes" (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize citation)

People want to be poets for reasons that have little to do with language.
It's the life of the poet that they want.
Even...