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The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the history of trade and trapping while exploring under-researched stories of French-Ojibwe political, social, and economic relations. Multiple generations of Cadottes were involved in the trade, usually working as interpreters and peacemakers, as the region passed from French to British to American control.

Bestselling author and PhD of ethology Jonathan Balcombe argues for a new perspective on nature—one that rejects the idea of the wild as cruel and savage and instead highlights the cooperation and compassion between species—and examines the role humans play in it. Turn on a nature...

A wry and thought-provoking tale about the defiant, eccentric figures obsessed with Australia's deadliest reptiles. Raymond Hoser is known as the Snakeman, a moniker he has zealously defended. As a day job, Hoser runs a business in Melbourne that offers several services. One service is snake...

Bloomsbury presents Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead, read by John Sackville What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a...

With senses that often seem alien to us, bees navigate complex decisions about where to find food, when to fight or flee, and how to work together. The Language of Bees invites listeners into the hidden world of bee communication, a realm where creatures less than an inch long use scent, vibration, movement, and sound to cooperate, share information, and survive.

In a work of “exquisitely reported” (Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts) narrative journalism, The Hunt tells the extraordinary inside story of the deadliest wolf hunt in the history of Yellowstone National Park, in which a fifth of the park’s wolf population was decimated in the...

Humans and grizzly bears have been coming into contact in Yellowstone National Park ever since it was founded in 1872. Most of these encounters have ended peacefully, but many have not. In order to most accurately tell the stories of those involved in the more deadly incidents, Kathleen Snow...

Die Wahrheit ist: Ziegenhaltung scheitert selten am guten Willen – sondern fast immer an falschen Erwartungen. Dieses Hörbuch holt Sie genau dort ab: mit einem ehrlichen Realitätscheck, einer praxiserprobten Schritt-für-Schritt-Formel (dem Z.I.E.G.E.N.-Plan) und konkreten Routinen, mit denen Sie Stall, Zaun, Weide, Fütterung und Gesundheit so aufstellen, dass Ihre Herde stabil läuft – auch wenn Sie noch nie zuvor Ziegen gehalten haben.

Read by the author, William Fiennes. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize I had attached myself to the birds. I couldn't move on until the birds moved on, and the birds couldn't move on without the spring. One winter, after an...

It is a little known fact that most men, at some point in their lives, will have a bird on their head. Think of statues, wildlife documentary presenters, tourists in Trafalgar Square.... This delightfully eccentric book is both an informative field guide to our native birds, and a beautifully...

Meet the British animals we tend to ignore – and discover why they matter more than we think. From midge clouds and riverside bat walks to slug-slick gardens and wasps’ nests in the eaves, Awful Creatures follows writer Saskia McCracken as she seeks out the British animals we dismiss, shun...

Bloomsbury presents The Most Perfect Thing by Tim Birkhead, read by Gareth Armstrong 'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made...

In Discovering the Okapi, Simon Pooley offers a fascinating portrait of the okapian elusive short-necked giraffid with zebra stripes, surviving in the rainforests of central Africa's Congo basin and unpacks the complicated layers of Western science and Indigenous knowledge that shaped the world's understanding of this unique creature.

'A warm, rich, generous book. A pleasure from first page to last.' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'A moving, vulnerable portrait of love, nature and a life well-lived' RORY STEWART 'Touching and extraordinary, this true story seems like a fairy tale' JOANNA LUMLEY The long-awaited memoir of life and love on...

A celebration of Britain's wonderful garden birds When Bob the robin flew into Tony's life, it was the beginning of an incredible friendship that captured the nation's heart. Now Tony is back in the garden - and he's making more feathered friends. Filled with heartwarming stories and surprising...

The new book from national treasure Matt Baker, the perfect gift for any dog lover. Matt has lived a life firmly alongside his canine companions. From Cromwell the St Bernard to famous Meg on Blue Peter, Labradors to dachshunds and all the working collies on the farm, Matt's life has always been...

The extraordinary true story of an injured, abandoned fawn and the man who nurses her back to health, transforming his understanding of love and erasing the barrier between humans and animals. "This is a book drenched in tenderness and suffused with wonder. . . . Penelope is a revelation."—Sy...

An unforgettable deep dive into the history, mythos, and cultural significance of America’s wildest survivor, the black bear—from the host of the wildly popular MeatEater podcast Bear Grease For seven generations, the Newcomb family has hunted, observed, and lived alongside the American...

Why are capybaras most commonly eaten during the Lenten season? Which country features the capybara on one of its coins? What goes on in a Japanese capybara cafe? Capybaras—gentle giants of the wetlands, a masterpiece of evolution, and a global cultural phenomenon. With a habitat spanning rivers, lush wetlands, and sprawling floodplains of South America, scientists and laymen alike have been intrigued by their unique behaviors and adaptations.

What does it really take to ride with confidence, control, and true connection? In Confident Horseback Riding, master horseman Al Ragusin shares a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom from more than seven decades of studying, training, and riding horses across multiple disciplines.