The Elephant Whisperer: My Life With ...
Lawrence AnthonyWhen South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of ...
The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, ...
Gregory A. FreemanIn October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic-a clash that would prove dramat...
Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Inco...
Jackson GalaxyCat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what you might expect for a cat expert (as the New York Times noted, with his goatee and tattoos he ...
Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Ch...
Charles MooreIn the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pa...
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered...
Amy StewartAmy Stewart follows her wildly successful national bestseller Wicked Plants with an investigation of the insects, worms, and spiders that have tormented humankind for centuries.
Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disob...
Henry David ThoreauLARGE PRINT ILLUSTRATED This book established the credentials of Thoreau to forever speak for America's love of natural beauty. Walden is about a man, a pond, and the great woods of the country By Henry Thoreau.