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As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A...

Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They are also intensely social and have advanced long-term memories. In this episode, a parade of Asian elephants makes its way through the Sri Lankan forest to a lake for drinks and mud baths, stopping periodically for group naps. The female leading the parade uses infrasonic rumbles—inaudible to humans, but traveling as far as two miles along the surface of the Earth as seismic waves—to invite friends and family around the forest to join her at the reservoir.

Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian - and thru-hiker - Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a conduit for community engagement and a model for public-private cooperation and environmental stewardship. In Tangled Roots, Mittlefehldt tells the story of the trail’s creation.

La nostra vita, ci ricorda Bill Bryson, è il risultato di "una straordinaria dose di fortuna biologica", l'esito di una serie lunghissima di eventi, per molti versi assolutamente misteriosi. Questo libro prova a spiegare come un tale colpo di fortuna si sia potuto verificare.

The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944...

Catherine Raven has lived alone since the age of 15. After finishing her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana, in a place as far away from other people as possible. She viewed the house as a way station, a temporary rest stop where she could...

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. “This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the...

An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is real and is pushing us toward managing the planet as a whole. Urbanization - half the world's population now lives in cities, and 80 percent will by midcentury - is altering humanity's land impact and wealth.

In her extraordinary work with dolphins, Patricia St. John has broken new ground in opening little-known worlds, all in pursuit of what she fiercely believes in: learning the languages of those who have been unreachable. Using what she has discovered from her years of work with dolphins, St. John is able to break through to autistic children. Her story is a remarkable one.

Is your dog underutilized and seems bored? Would you like to do more with your dog than just take him for a walk and throw balls? Then this book is just right for you and your four-legged friend. You will first learn in theory what exactly tracking is and why it is perfect as a joint leisure activity. You will then find instructions for practical training with your dog, which will guide you from the first small training steps through to advanced tracking.

A luminous and deeply personal celebration of the trees that have shaped one scientist's life and can help save our planet. Blending her talent for artful storytelling with her expertise as a botanist, biologist and biochemist, The Trees I Love is Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s love letter to the...

Alone in the wilderness and you don't know the way back? You keep on walking and just get more and more lost? You haven't seen anyone else for what feels like an eternity and have no sign of civilization? Without the help of GPS, compass, and map, all directions seem to look the same. But it doesn't have to be that way. With the right techniques and methods, you can learn to find your way off the beaten track.

From the 2022 TIME100 NEXT honoree, 2026 TIME100 CREATOR honoree, and author of The Intersectional Environmentalist, comes a fresh exploration of one of humanity’s most enduring metaphors and the implications on our planet—our vision of Earth as mother. The concept of “mother nature” has...

Meet the deities, spirits, and beings of the plant kingdom who want to be your magical allies! Unlock the sacred power of nature through dozens of brand-new spells and rituals. Discover your personal plant familiar and open yourself to a new way of working with nature in your magical practice...

Bloomsbury presents Lost Among the Birds by Neil Hayward, read by Sam Devereaux Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn’t want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn’t want to think about his failed...

What happens when wilderness runs in your veins? From a wild child hunting for frogs and foraging for mushrooms to a seasoned mountain man working in the rugged Northern Rockies, Scott Sunderwald’s life is a thrilling testament to adventure, survival, and nature’s transformative power. He's survived a lightning strike, savage wild boars, terrifying rock climbs, and run-ins with aggressive bears.

An evocative, lyrical debut memoir into the heart of our vanishing natural world, the solitary life of an eel fisherman and an urgent awakening of an environmental conscience. As a boy in Herefordshire, Richard Fleming watched the rural world begin to slip away, along with the traditional...

A new look at the psychology and history of hiking and its connection to the concept of “awe” that has long been felt, but only recently understood The fact that every year millions of travelers flock to the dangerous wilderness regions of our nation’s parks, forgoing comfort and safety to...