BIRD OF LIFE, BIRD OF DEATH'

'BIRD OF LIFE, BIRD OF DEATH'

Travel

Maslow, Jonathan

Specialty Travel

Laurel

Describes the author's observation of owls, explains what is known about owl behavior, and looks at the owl in history and mythology

Owl Papers-V813

Science & Math

Vintage

This account of the naturalist's search for the quetzal, the symbol of Guatemala, reveals the natural and human ecologies to be devastated by the country's violent political turmoil

Bird of Life, Bird of Death

History

Americas

Recognized as one of the best natural historians writing today, Maslow employs his talents as a fiction writer for the first time to assemble this collection of short stories that range in time from the early 16th century to the present. All of them take place along the Gulf Coast, from Tampa, Florida, to the Mexican border.

Torrid Zone

Random House Value Publishing

The author chronicles his odyssey through Turkmenistan, a Moslem republic in the former Soviet Union, in search of the Akal-Teke horse, a rare equine breed, and the people who breed and raise them

Sacred Horses:: Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy

Asia

Random House]

Recognized as one of the best natural historians writing today, Maslow employs his talents as a fiction writer for the first time to assemble this collection of short stories that range in time from the early 16th century to the present. All of them take place along the Gulf Coast, from Tampa, Florida, to the Mexican border.

Torrid Zone:: Seven Stories from the Gulf Coast

Literature & Fiction

Jonathan Maslow here portrays thirteen scientists whom he calls “the luckiest men and women of all time”―the explorers who first mapped the tropical regions of the Americas and discovered the glorious biological orgy that is nature in the tropics. They were the first to color the chorus of tropical birds; the first to know the swiftness of the jaguar; the first to learn the loves of the orchid family and to collect the daunting variety of moths and butterflies and beetles; the first to run the rivers of the Amazon, to climb the Andes, and to dive the coral reefs of the Caribbean; and the first to unearth the ruins of America's pre-Columbian civilizations. “They were and are,” Mr. Maslow writes, "the Indiana Joneses of science, plunging ahead often recklessly on the path to discovery―and emerging with fabulous tales of scientific adventure...an antidote to the dismal late-twentieth-century image of bloodless scientists separated from nature." From Alexander von Humboldt to Daniel Janzen, Mr. Maslow invites you to tag along into the field as he follows the explorers on their voyages and expeditions, offering a companion guide to their discoveries and a context for their imaginative quests.

Footsteps in the Jungle: Adventures in the Scientific Exploration of American Tropics

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Ivan R. Dee

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