Bringing a unique perspective and a singular voice to contemporary fiction, A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA features lush, poignant stories about the natural world. Here are mammals, historical figures, everyday people who discover the liberating properties of memory and knowledge in the face of captivity and loneliness. We meet a forlorn tortoise forced to live among humans. We witness orcas at Ocean World staging a revolt, using celibacy as their weapon. In a French cave, a young compu...

At the center of Deep Blue Home—a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it—is Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race.Whitty's thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scien...

This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter–for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul–and also out of the fear that our “democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate.Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and weather cycles. From Tierra del Fuego in t...

**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERTHRUST IS:“Epic.” –The New York Times“A triumph.” —Elle“Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast“Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books“A book to take in wide-eyed.” —Rebecca MakkaiNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTAs rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with t...

**“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way“A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story.”—David Sibley, author of What It's Like to Be a BirdAn enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called...

"[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...

In this gorgeous companion to the acclaimed Over and Under the Snow and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal bring to life a secret underwater world. In this book, readers will discover the plants and animals that make up the rich, interconnected ecosystem of a mountain pond. Over the pond, the water is a mirror, reflecting the sky. But under the pond is a hidden world of minnows darting, beavers diving, tadpoles growing. These an...

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly...

Can the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? "Luminous essays" on nature and environmental stewardship ( Booklist).Named one of the Top Ten Northwest Books of the Year by the OregonianIn this book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore, a winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for Holdfast, reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit, despite the notion that nature and hum...

National Geographic pairs gripping and gruesome stories of shark attacks with cutting edge research to illuminate a fascinating underwater world that few truly understand. Sharks are the world's most fascinating predators—capable of detecting a single drop of blood in 25 million drops of ocean and sensing electricity emitted by their prey. This ebook short takes readers deep into the realm of the very latest shark science, including new insights into the nature of shark attacks around the ...

The MacArthur Genius and bestselling author tell the story of the ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future."Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." —Los Angeles TimesThough nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline...

Nonfiction about cross-cultural experience in nature (like Braiding Sweetgrass, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood) has powerful sales appeal. As do “field guides” that provide more than just raw data. We view this as a kind of lyric field guide. In the vein of the Wildsam guides.Will be a beautiful hardcover, suitable for gift-giving.Author's viewpoint, as an ornithologist, a hunter, a professor, and a black man from the South is incredibly uniqueThis is a ...