The violence of nature brings both tragedy and reward to a young couple trying to start a home life on a barrier key along Florida's Gulf Coast in the late 1950's. Their effort becomes entwined with a mysterious event that occurred centuries earlier within a short paddling distance from their bayou-front property.The author grew up on Siesta Key along the Gulf Coast of Florida during the 50s and 60s. Over many years since, he has hiked, camped, and paddled extensively in the state'...

Jef Kaiser grew up in Florida but has lived in Multnomah County, Oregon for the past 42 years. Despite a love for the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, the gloominess of Oregon winters sometimes turns his thoughts to the sun and subtropical wilds of his home state. This novelette was written during one of those winters as a vicarious way to escape the drear and return to the haunts of his boyhood during the 1950's and 60's."Adventure Bequeathed" offers the reader a quirky to...

In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures.

Ben and Jeff Gill are doing menial labor at their father's construction site on east end Molokai when Ben reports to the father that the heavy equipment operators are goofing off.One of the operators retaliates by cornering the brothers on an isolated beachfront off Puko'o Harbor.

Take a magical ride around the globe to see the wonders of a single moment in a story illuminating our precious and fragile natural world.Our planet is always turning. It may be midnight in London, but in different time zones other living things are waking up, ready to hunt or feed or fight. As the clock strikes twelve, two sisters are spirited away on a journey to glimpse, in the span of a moment, extraordinary biodiversity: a mother polar bear and her cubs huntin...

A nature photographer’s residency among the harsh natural beauty of the Farallon Islands takes a startlingly violent turn in this debut eco-thriller with echoes of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer.CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BY: People Magazine, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed,The New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle“A stunner: intense, surefooted, master...

A thrilling birdwatching adventure and true story of obsession, The Big Year chronicles the fiercely competitive quest of three men racing across North America to shatter a birding record for the ages.Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year—a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. For three men in particular, 1998 would become a grueling ba...

There’s trouble under the sea! Can the Princess in Black and her new mermaid friend put a stop to a big blue kraken’s shenanigans?The Princess in Black and her friends are enjoying a day of sun and sea on Princess Sneezewort’s royal boat when a real, live mermaid princess emerges from the waves! Eeeeeee! Princess Posy needs their help protecting her very cute sea goats from being eaten by a very greedy kraken. But the princesses and the Goat Avenger quickl...

"[A] terrific read—intense, captivating, and insightfully written" from the host of Animal Planet's wildly popular TV series River Monsters ( Newsday ).Called "the greatest angling explorer of his generation," Jeremy Wade takes viewers where no wildlife program has gone before, revealing the creatures that lurk in the murky depths of our planet's inland waterways ( Independe...

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Fly-fishing’s finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of rattlesnakes and a private pond where the trout are all as long as your leg. As Gierach says, “The secret places are the s...

A fast-paced adventure series featuring The Jungle Girl herself! The stories are inspired and co-created by Bindi Irwin, daughter of the iconic wildlife expert, Steve Irwin. The series features the characters of Bindi, her brother Robert, mother Terri, and the Australia Zoo.Rescue!: Book 2Bindi and her friend Hannah uncover a threat to the endangered antelope of South Africa while on a horse trek.

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predatorsOver the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elus...