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My Family & Other Animals
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
This book is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu where the author lived as a boy with his 'family and other animals.' It is a matter of personal taste whether one most enjoys the family, with its many eccentric hangers-on, or the animals Gerry studies and brings back to the strawberry-pink, the daffodil-yellow, or the snow-white villa. The procession ...
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives
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Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Durrell's dazzling sequel to "My Family and Other Animals" is based on his boyhood on the Greek Island of Corfu from 1935 to 1939 and filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder.
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
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Desmond Morris
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Fillets of Plaice
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The Snake Scientist
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Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop (Photographer)
Filled with full-color photos, this award-winning science book explores the work of Dr. Robert Mason, who has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for 15 years: the reemergence of thousands of red-sided garter snakes after a winter spent in subterranean caverns in a state of suspended animation.
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The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours
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Jane Goodall
The renowned scientist and wildlife advocate shares the heroic story of her life with the chimpanzees. 80 full-color photos.
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Shark Lady: True Adventures of Eugenie Clark
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Ann McGovern
A biography of marine biologist and shark expert Eugenie Clark.
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Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacy
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Desmond Morris
Twenty-five years after it first caused a splash in the scientific and literary worlds, Intimate Behavior is still one of the best chronicles of human intimacy. With a masterful and entertaining eye, Desmond Morris, bestselling author of The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo, analyzes the roots of human intimacy, from the handshake through the twelve ...
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Jaguar: Struggle and Triumph in the Jungles of Belize
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Alan Rabinowitz
In the tradition of Cry of the Kalahari, this is a dramatic first-person adventure story that provides a scientist's experiences with jaguars in the wild. 32 pages of full-color and black-and-white photographs.
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Ark's Anniversary
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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Fauna and Family
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Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years
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Jane Goodall, Dale Peterson (Editor)
This second collection of Jane Goodall's letters continues to illuminate--charmingly and informatively--her admirable life as a primate researcher in Africa.
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Home to the Wilderness
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Sally Carrighar
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My Pride & Joy
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George Adamson
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One Man's Owl
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Bernd Heinrich
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The garden of the gods
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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The Zoo That Never Was
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R D Lawrence
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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Desmond Morris, Philip Turner (Editor)
How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller, The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of ...
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The picnic and suchlike pandemonium
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography
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Douglas Botting
Written with complete access to the Durrell family archives and Gerald Durrell's private papers, this affecting biography follows its subject from an eccentric boyhood in Imperial India to the international prominence he gained in print and on television as one of the world's foremost animal conservationists. The younger brother of the famous ...
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Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
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Alan Rabinowitz
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 experience with jaguars in the wild. Originally ...
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Animal days
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Desmond Morris
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The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer & Naturalist
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Carol Grant Gould
As the first biographer to see the letters and private journals William Beebe kept from 1887 until his death in 1962, science writer Gould brings the life and times of this groundbreaking scientist and explorer to light.
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One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition
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Bernd Heinrich, Alice Calaprice (Designer)
This engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl "Bubo" came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter--is now available in a revised and abridged edition to be more accessible to the general reader.
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On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West
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Barbara R. Stein
The biography of Annie Alexander (1867-1950), an adventurous, independent woman, amateur naturalist, intrepid collector of mammals and fossils, she was the founder and patron of two natural history museums at the UC, Berkeley, and remains an inspiration to all women, especially those in science.
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