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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
Delia Owens, Mark Owens · 306 pages
Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine · 222 pages
An interactive multimedia exploration of the authors' trip around the world in search of endangered species. Contains the unabridged text of the book Last chance to see, a reading of the entire book by Douglas Adams, and over 800 full-screen color photographs. Allows the user to either read or listen to the book, to choose any chapter within the book, and to explore the many sidebars that provide
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Karsten Heuer · 238 pages
In April 2003, newlyweds Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison embarked on a five-month research journey to migrate more than 2,000 miles with a herd of 120,000 Porcupine Caribou.
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Susan Casey · 302 pages
Through dolphins, we can see the best and worst of mankind. On average, seventy four dolphins wash up on the Gulf of Mexico's north shore every year. In the first half of 2012, there were eight hundred and ninety-one of them, with stillborn baby dolphins washing up at ten times the average yearly rate. The cause? BP's disastrous oil spill in 2010. For decades mankind's actions have led to the deat
100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save Them
Jeff Corwin · 320 pages
Conservationist Jeff Corwin provides an urgent portrait of the wildlife that is teetering on the brink of extinction. From the forests slipping away beneath the stealthy paws of the Florida panther, to the giant panda's plight to climb ever higher in the mountains of China in search of sustenance, to the brutal poaching tactics that have devastated Africa's rhinoceros and elephant populations, Cor
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns · 417 pages
In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
Dave Goulson · 288 pages
Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect our rarest bees. Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the descendants of a few queen
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Jon Mooallem · 352 pages
Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls--while the actual world she's inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America's endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world aroun
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Juliet Eilperin · 295 pages
In this globe-spanning adventure, environmental journalist Juliet Eilperin investigates the ways different individuals and cultures relate to the ocean's top predator. Along the way, she reminds us why, after millions of years, sharks remain among nature's most awe-inspiring creatures. From Belize to South Africa, from Shanghai to Bimini, sharks are still the object of an obsession that may eventu
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat · 215 pages
Biologist Farley Mowat was dropped into Eskimo lands by the Canadian Government, that was looking for an excuse to eradicate wolves. What he discovered instead was astonishing. The Eskimos were listening to wolves from five miles away, messages from the Canis lupus telegraph system. One example was the instance that two men and a woman were going to arrive in three days. All these communications w
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Phillip M. Hoose · 148 pages
Wolves at Our Door: The Extraordinary Story of the Couple Who Lived with Wolves
Jim Dutcher, James Manfull, Jamie Dutcher · 320 pages
Gorillas in the Mist
Dian Fossey · 326 pages
Describes four gorilla families living in the rain forests of the Virunga mountains of Rwanda during a fifteen-year case study.
Born Free: The Full Story
Joy Adamson · 432 pages
This compilation, first published 1966, includes Born Free (first published 1960), Living Free, and Forever Free.
An African Love Story: Life, Love and Elephants
Daphne Sheldrick
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
William Stolzenburg · 297 pages
The Elephant Whisperer
Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence · 368 pages
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula Thula, his commonsense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - notorious escape artists, they would all be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them. He agreed, but before arrangements for the move could be completed the animals broke out again and the
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America
David Baron · 277 pages
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant · 352 pages
In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall · 297 pages
Goodall's classic account of primate behavior combines a landmark scientific study with a fascinating adventure story of a determined young woman's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before.
A Wolf Called Romeo
Nick Jans · 333 pages
"No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living on th