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10 best books like The Wolverine Way (Douglas H. Chadwick): The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America, Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve, The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals, Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America, Summer World: A Season of Bounty

The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America
AuthorDavid Baron
ISBN0393326349
When residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their backyards, it became clear that the cats had returned after decades of bounty hunting had driven them far from human settlement. In a riveting environmental tale that has received huge national attention, journalist...
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
AuthorSharon Levy
ISBN0195370120
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas,...
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805062297
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe

Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls...
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
AuthorAlexandra Morton
ISBN0345442881
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by...
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...
The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0395717590
Do grizzly bears still wander the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, where they have long been considered extinct? If so, can they elude the naturalists determined to prove that these bears, smarter than all other bears, survive in the mountain wilderness? Rick Bass, along with veteran grizzly expert...
Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
AuthorDavid Neiwert
ISBN1468308653
The orca—otherwise known as the killer whale—is one of earth’s most intelligent animals. Remarkably sophisticated, orcas have languages and cultures and even long-term memories, and their capacity for echolocation is nothing short of a sixth sense. They are also benign and gentle, which...
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
AuthorMerlin Tuttle
ISBN0544382277
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...
Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1620405520
Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.

Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor...
Summer World: A Season of Bounty
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742178
“Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell….A national treasure.”

—Los Angeles Times

 

Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich,...
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
AuthorWilliam Bryant Logan
"You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar."


John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work,...
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
AuthorPhilip Caputo
ISBN0792263626
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire employs native workers to build a railroad. Construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour 140 workers in an extended feeding frenzy that would make headlines and history all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth...
Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle
AuthorTristan Donovan
ISBN1569760675
We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating people...
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
AuthorDyan deNapoli
On June 23, 2000, the iron ore carrier MV Treasure foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins—thus threatening to decimate 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins. A massive rescue...
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...
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
AuthorRuth Padel
ISBN0802715443
Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's...
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0679752560
Williams often writes about things I care quite a bit about: Utah's natural beauty and/or quirky culture; environmental activism; birds; mythology; traveling; Edward Abbey; water & hiking & animals in the wild. She writes about the trails I walk on, the mountains I climb, the rivers I traverse....
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
AuthorDouglas W. Smith
ISBN1592288863
Rear cover notes: "In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. With recently...
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
AuthorTim Low
ISBN0670077968
Tim Low, award-winning author of Feral Future, in an eye-opening book on the unique nature of Australian birds and their role in ecology and global evolution.

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's...
Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned
AuthorScott McMillion
ISBN1560446366
This is, as it says, a book about "recent" grizzly bear attacks and the author's appreciation of grizzlies in general.

On one hand, this book reveals a lot about grizzlies and their behavior, which makes for interesting reading. I appreciate that the author found and interviewed so many survivors,...
Uggie--My Story
AuthorUggie
ISBN1476700168
Dear Reader:

Wow! Bow wow! It’s been a wild ride—wilder even than learning to water-ski or skateboard. I’m so famous now that The New York Times plugged my autobiography. “Uggie will bark all in a memoir,” it announced. Well, I’ve certainly had a lot to bark about lately.

Even...
Your Brain On Nature: The Science of Nature's Influence on Your Health, Happiness and Vitality
AuthorEva M. Selhub
ISBN1118106741
I absolutely loved this book. Every page was packed with information, supported by scientific research, about the positive effects on mental and physical health provided by nature. From walking in the forest to working in the garden, being close to nature lowers blood pressure, decreases stress...
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