The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
9 best books like The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species (Scott Weidensaul): 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, The Life of Birds, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I), Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
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 | 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 | Fred Anderson |
ISBN | 0375706364 |
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
Author | David Hackett Fischer |
ISBN | 0195069056 |
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural...
Author | Olivia Gentile |
ISBN | 1596911697 |
A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history—and ends up risking her life again and again in the wildest places on earth.
Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four...
Author | Tim Flannery |
ISBN | 0871137976 |
"Since humanity first wandered from its African birthplace over fifty millennia ago, it has radically altered the environment everywhere it has settled, often at the cost of the creatures that ruled the wild before its arrival. As our prehistoric ancestors spread throughout the globe, they began...
Author | Richard Fortey |
ISBN | 0375706216 |
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
Author | Richard M. Ketchum |
ISBN | 0805061231 |
In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring...