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10 best books like Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (David Quammen): Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, Rising from the Plains, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, For Love of Insects, The Sound of Mountain Water, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery, The Wolverine Way, Dinosaur in a Haystack

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1596912995
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...
Rising from the Plains
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374520658
This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach...
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
For Love of Insects
AuthorThomas Eisner
ISBN0674011813
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers - and you will have entered an insect world...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805078916
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist

Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
AuthorDavid Attenborough
The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collection s exquisite natural history artworks in Amazing Rare Things is supplemented by an introduction...
The Wolverine Way
AuthorDouglas H. Chadwick
ISBN0979065976
Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of...
Dinosaur in a Haystack
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN0517888246
Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey...
One River
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN0684834960
The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.

In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the...
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
AuthorSharman Apt Russell
ISBN0465071600
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
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,...
The Beauty of the Beastly
AuthorNatalie Angier
ISBN0395791472
Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their...
The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0547055161
The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month — the initial cruel teasing...
Field Notes on Science & Nature
AuthorMichael R. Canfield
ISBN0674057570
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

What...
A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico
AuthorDonald J. Borror
ISBN0395911702
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time.  Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated...
Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0679439994
Williams allows the reader to play the role of voyeur by offering us her quartet of erotic poems. Her lover is nature itself, whom she parses into the elements earth, water, fire and air. Her poems, of course, are quite sensual, descriptive, and crammed full of luscious images. Nevertheless, Mary Frank...
Crossing Open Ground
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0679721835
As an collection of journalistic pieces and essays, Crossing Open Ground is slightly less consistent in its overwhelming awe than Lopez' other works. His earlier, more explicitly journalistic pieces seem less impressive than the later works, which tend to be the ones that spend more time drawing...
Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
AuthorSusan Hand Shetterly
ISBN1565126181
Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also...
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0871137976
"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...
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374361738
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces...
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