Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Environmentalists & Naturalists

Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West.
Patterson's new edition of the journals--unknown to Audubon scholars and fans--offers a...

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One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The James Wright Award for Nature Writing, the Costa Biography Award, the Royal Geographic Society's Ness Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award

Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie...

Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest.

Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith's essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on...

Photographs by staff member Lucy Zhang to share the beauty of Hidden Villa. Hidden Villa's mission is to inspire a just and sustainable future through programs, land, and legacy. This 1600 acres of open space in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, was purchased in 1924 by Frank and Josephine Duveneck, who used the land as more than their family home, but also as a gathering place for discussion, reflection, and incubation of social reform. Since being incorporated as an educational nonprofit in 1960, Hidden Villa has been providing opportunities for people to learn about themselves,...

Next to nothing was known about Baker until an archive of his material was found. Now it has been possible to piece together an accurate view of the life whose writing has become the gold standard for all nature writing.

John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist.

In this fresh approach to Audubon's art and science, Gregory Nobles shows us that Audubon's greatest creation was himself. A self-made man incessantly striving to secure his place in American society, Audubon made himself into a skilled painter, a successful entrepreneur, and a prolific writer, whose words went...

In this charming memoir Terry C. Maxwell shares his unusual adventures as naturalist, taking us from tropical jungles to the frozen tundra of Alaska, from such odd places as the Devil's Sinkhole in Texas to the exotic Galapagos Islands. What he does as a naturalist alone holds our attention, though it is how he performs his work that will have us retelling stories from this book long after we finish reading it.

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The day is May 16th. An ordinary day for many; for some, a day that would change the course of their lives irrevocably. A Day in My Head is a collection of authentic first-hand accounts of mental illness, ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to depression, anxiety, panic disorder, physical abuse, schizophrenia, autism and many more. Both moving and funny, the diverse diary entries in this book offer insight and hope that we may someday transcend the stigma surrounding mental illness as we continue journeying propitiously to ever safer, more...