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Lea Korsgaard’s number-one international bestseller tells the story of the year she spent tracking every species of butterfly in her native Denmark. Suffused with beauty and wonder, The Butterfly Season is a love letter to the natural world and an unforgettable reflection on the precious and...

The remarkable Sorraia horse – a resilient breed that shaped American history from Spanish conquest to the modern West – now fights for survival in a contentious battle between preservation and progress. In 1519, when indigenous peoples first encountered Hernán Cortés's mounted army, they...

A new book edited by Lamar Underwood about the most incredible bear attacks ever, including attacks by Grizzlies, black bears, brown bears, Kodiac bears, and others. Bears are not to be trifled with: don’t ever feed them, shout at them, or try to play with them. This book includes the scariest...

Step into the fields, woods, and marshes of early twentieth-century New England with one of America's most graceful nature writers. In this collection of nine essays, Dallas Lore Sharp turns his naturalist's eye on the small, often-overlooked dramas of the countryside: a hawk's raid on a flock...

What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear’s future? Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching...

Dominating victories, great duels, and astounding rallies make up some of horse racing’s greatest moments. Award-winning racing writer Edward L. Bowen captures these and more in At the Wire, a compilation of nearly thirty races plus Breeders’ Cup highlights that have earned a solid place in...

Against the white expanse of the Arctic tundra, a snowy owl is hardly visible as he pauses to listen for the rustling of small prey. While most Arctic birds migrate south for the winter, this owl can survive through the endless polar nights. In this episode, we follow a snowy owl as he searches for food in the dark, soaring past the footprints of polar bears, howling huskies, and snow foxes that call this wintry world home.

‘Glorious’ KATHERINE RUNDELL ‘Wondrous’ MICHAEL MORPUGO A beautifully adapted children’s edition of the Sunday Times bestseller and Wainwright Prize-winning sensation, this is the wondrous true story of a woman and a baby hare who form an incredible bond. One winter’s day, Chloe...

Известный автор-натуралист Сай Монтгомери исследует эмоциональный и физический мир осьминогов, удивительные отношения, складывающиеся между людьми и этими животными, а также знакомит нас с сообществом увлеченных специалистов и энтузиастов, сложившимся вокруг этих сложных, умных и общительных животных.

In the Catskills gathers eight of John Burroughs's finest nature essays, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910 with photographic illustrations by Clifton Johnson. Burroughs — nicknamed "John o' Birds" for his devotion to birdlife and often credited with creating the modern nature essay...

“Luminous.”—Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun Acclaimed nature writer Marina Richie guides us into a vertical world of old-growth forests through the eyes of the birds that inhabit them—exploring her journey as an environmentalist in her signature verdant prose. With exquisite...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN 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 enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself...

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...

For more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life. But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of them became pets. In Cats, Rod Phillips shares a sweeping cultural and social history of felines, tracing their shifting place across societies and centuries, from ancient Egypt's revered hunters to Europe's suspected familiars of witches and from shipboard rodent controllers to cherished internet icons.

A delight for devoted birders, curious nature lovers, and casual backyard watchers alike Among the Birds is an enchanting celebration of the Pacific Northwest’s birds, brought to life by New York Times bestselling author and naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt. Listeners join Haupt on a wandering...

Este libro, 101 Súper Datos y Más Sobre los Capibaras, reúne relatos fascinantes y datos curiosos que abarcan la ciencia, la historia, la ecología y la cultura para satisfacer la curiosidad de los más ardientes entusiastas de los capibaras. Ofrece una mirada enfocada y atractiva a uno de los mamíferos más distintivos del reino animal.

Bloomsbury presents Free Rein by Jock Hutchison, read by David Rintoul. The powerful and heart-warming story of how horses and humans can find happiness. On a remote Scottish farm, something remarkable happens. Broken people – the war wounded, the vulnerable, the desperate seekers of happiness...

'Thrilling and delightful' - George Monbiot 'Vital, brilliant, wholly absorbing... A masterpiece of science writing' - Isabella tree To appreciate the wonders of the world around us, we're often told to look up. But what if we need to look down instead? Everything that happens below ground...

Vous rêvez d'un chien bien dans ses pattes… et bien éduqué ? Voilà LE guide qu'il vous faut ! Tony Silvestre, fondateur d'Esprit Dog et éducateur canin n° 1 sur les réseaux, partage ici des méthodes simples, bienveillantes et déjà testées par des milliers de maîtres. Dans ce guide ultra-pratique, vous allez apprendre à : Choisir la race qui vous correspond : taille, énergie, caractère, besoins réels. Comprendre votre chien : signaux, émotions, langage corporel et rythme de vie.

“Thrilling and intrepid. A beautiful tale of dramatic, wild landscapes and the entangled lives of snow leopards, their prey, and the humans who share their terrain.” —Andrea Wulf, bestselling author of The Invention of Nature “By turns beautiful, terrible, and encouraging.”...