"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often...

"David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--which sent more than a thousand...

Traces the life of the English naturalist from his early years thr-ough his expedition aboard the H.M.S. Beagle and the development of his theory of evolution by natural selection.

"In Wild Chorus...author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet. From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this...

"Jolts, Synchronicities, Dream Catchers and A Memoir Into the Fire of Original Experience challenges the reader to look below the surface and see what is most important to one's body, mind, heart and spirit. The book explores different themes that make up the author's journey of becoming as he presents a memoir that goes to the epicenter of being human. The stories in this book span seven decades. They begin in a 3 flat apartment above a tavern owned...

Collected correspondence between Carson and Freeman, spanning the last years of Carson's life, including the writing of "Silent spring."

Introduces the fields of conservation and environmental studies; profiles notable women; and suggests ways for interested girls to become involved.

Diagonosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in 2-5 years and offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional medicine, Susan Tweit turned to the natural world that was both her solace and her field of study as a plant ecologist. She shows how qualities such as courage, compassion, and inspiration draw people together and bind us into the community of the land and of all living things.

Why did he become so famous that mountains, parks, trails, schools, a glacier, a millipede, and even a planet are named after him? This is the story of John Muir's adventurous life, from Scotland to his legendary exploits in America, where he became an inventor, a global explorer, and the first modern environmentalist-- and even made friends with a president! His heart was always captivated by the outdoors and he aimed to experience all he could....