Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague
10 best books like Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague (Roger Tory Peterson): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Winter Queen, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, The Dare Game, Starring Tracy Beaker, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul, Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding: Understanding What You See and Hear, Letters to my Grandchildren: Lessons for the Future, The Warbler Guide
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0618709401 |
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...
| Author | Boris Akunin |
| ISBN | 0753817594 |
Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds...
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 1596915412 |
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in America, but throughout the world, and the range of interest runs from the specialist to the beginner.
In The Wisdom...
| Author | Jon Young |
| ISBN | 0547451253 |
A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to their vocalizations and behavior, we can acquire much...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0440867584 |
I'M TRACY BEAKER, THE GREAT INVENTOR OF EXTREMELY OUTRAGEOUS DARES - AND I DARE YOU TO READ A MORE BRILLIANT STORY THAN THIS!
I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story. Of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0385610173 |
Tracy Beaker is back . . . and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Can she manage...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0865476888 |
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0547248326 |
Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don’t really understand what’s in front of them.Today birders have access to almost too much information, and their attempts to identify birds can be drowned out by excess detail. The all-new Kaufman Field...
| Author | Tony Benn |
| ISBN | 0091931266 |
Emphasizing the importance of the future and those who will live through it, this statement seeks to address the lessons that can be learned from the past. Striving to prevent the next generation from making the same mistakes as its predecessors, this recollection highlights those who struggled for...
| Author | Tom Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0691154821 |
Warblers are among the most challenging birds to identify. They exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. "The Warbler Guide" enables you to quickly identify any of the 56 species of warblers in the United States and Canada. This groundbreaking guide...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 1590307712 |
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 0544558146 |
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
| Author | Walter Mischel |
| ISBN | 0316230871 |
Psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.
A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later...
