Zooburbia: Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us
10 best books like Zooburbia: Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us (Tai Moses): Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land, The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, Wolves in the Land of Salmon, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat, Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve, Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land
| Author | Lauret Savoy |
| ISBN | 1619025736 |
Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics...
| Author | Graeme Gibson |
| ISBN | 0385514832 |
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.
Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning...
Wolves in the Land of Salmon
| Author | David Moskowitz |
| ISBN | 1604692278 |
Long considered an icon of the wild, wolves capture our imagination and spark controversy. Humans are the adult wolf’s only true natural predator; its return to the old-growth forests and wild coastlines of the Pacific Northwest renews age-old questions about the value of wildlands and wildlife.
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| Author | Wendy Lee |
| ISBN | 1590564197 |
When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams was published more than twenty years ago, it caused a immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists and animal rights activists alike. Never before had the relationship between patriarchy and meat eating...
| Author | Alan Rabinowitz |
| ISBN | 1559638028 |
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...
Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters
| Author | Melanie Joy |
| ISBN | 1944903305 |
Vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters can feel like they’re living in different worlds. Many vegans and vegetarians struggle to feel understood and respected in a meat-eating culture, where some of their most pressing concerns and cherished beliefs are invisible, and where they are often met with...
| Author | Leslie Marmon Silko |
A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers.
Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world,...
| Author | Merlin Tuttle |
| ISBN | 0544382277 |
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...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
| Author | Alan Burdick |
| ISBN | 0374219737 |
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| ISBN | 0618717161 |
The critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field book about how one boy’s interest in backyard science inspired a career in scientific discovery.
When Tyrone Hayes was growing up in South Carolina, he didn’t worry about pesticides. He just liked to collect frogs. Tyrone’s interest...
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
| Author | Philip Caputo |
| ISBN | 0792263626 |
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...
| Author | Todd McLeish |
| ISBN | 0295992646 |
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff...
| Author | Tristan Donovan |
| ISBN | 1569760675 |
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...
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...
| Author | Mara Grunbaum |
| ISBN | 0761180346 |
We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy—like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam (Memo to Evolution:...
| Author | Eugene Linden |
| ISBN | 0452280680 |
A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 1558217800 |
Several essays really stood out which is what I'm looking for in reading a book like this(something relatable to my experiences). The essay "the song of the canyon wren" described something I've known my entire life, even as a child, but have never shared nor even knew how to put it into words! Moore says...
Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans
| Author | Sherry F. Colb |
| ISBN | 1590563840 |
For vegans and non-vegans alike! A highly readable, witty, original, and provocative book.
What about plants? Don't animals eat other animals? There are no perfect vegans, so why bother? If you're vegan, how many times have you been asked these, and other similarly challenging, questions...
On Being Vegan: Reflections on a Compassionate Life
| Author | Colleen Patrick-Goudreau |
On Being Vegan is a collection of thoughtfully crafted essays that reflect Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s unique blend of passion, humor, and common sense and get to the heart of what it means to be vegan. Born out of her life-changing talks and podcast episodes, On Being Vegan is Patrick-Goudreau’s...
How to Be Vegan: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Cruelty-Free Eating, Living, Dating, Travel, Decorating, and More
| Author | Elizabeth Castoria |
| ISBN | 1579655556 |
With the interest in vegan living on the rise, it s time for a book that goes beyond the recipes. How does a newbie adopt a vegan approach when it comes to dating, entertaining, decorating, travel, and beyond? Author Elizabeth Castoria, the former editorial director of "VegNews, " offers a useful, friendly...
The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
| Author | Leigh Calvez |
| ISBN | 1632170264 |
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this book that will appeal to readers of "Crow Planet "and "H is for Hawk." Join Leiigh Calvez on adventures into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest often in the dead of night. These...
GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat)
| Author | Thomas Thwaites |
| ISBN | 1616894059 |
The dazzling success of The Toaster Project, including TV appearances and an international book tour, leaves Thomas Thwaites in a slump. His friends increasingly behave like adults, while Thwaites still lives at home, "stuck in a big, dark hole." Luckily, a research grant offers the perfect out:...
Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship and Mating Tell Us about Human Relationships
| Author | Jennifer L. Verdolin |
| ISBN | 1616149469 |
Wild Kingdom meets Sex and the City in this scientific perspective on dating and relationships.
A specialist in animal behavior compares the courtship rituals and mating behaviors of animals to their human equivalents, revealing the many and often surprising ways we are both similar to...
Do Unto Animals: A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better
| Author | Tracey Stewart |
| ISBN | 1579656234 |
The more we know about the animals in our world and the better we care for them, the better our lives will be. Former veterinary technician and animal advocate Tracey Stewart understands this better than most—and she’s on a mission to change how we interact with animals. Through hundreds of charming...
