Sick of nature

By Gessner, David

Publishing Date: [2004]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 508 GES

"Whether kicking at the limits of his category or explaining why he was fired from his job as a bookstore clerk; whether recalling his youthful obsession with Ultimate Frisbee or recounting an adventure in the jungles of Belize; whether lampooning his envy of Sebastian Junger or raging at the over-development of Cape Cod or searching for solace in nature in the wake of September 11, Gessner ranges from the personal to the natural in lyrical reflections on writing, self, and society." "In a concluding essay, Gessner moves from the arrival of coyotes in the suburbs of Boston to the birth of his first child in an extended meditation on his characteristic themes of creativity, wildness, and place."--BOOK JACKET.

Made from this earth: American women and nature

By Norwood, Vera

Publishing Date: c1993

Classification: 500

Call Number: 508.73 NOR

The contribution American women have made to the study of nature from the early nineteenth century to the present, as writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists.

American Eden: David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic

By Johnson, Victoria

Publishing Date: [2018]

Classification: 500

Call Number: 580.973 JOH

"Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, [the author] offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature"--Amazon.com.

The truth about animals: stoned sloths, lovelorn hippos, and other tales from the wild side of wildlife

By Cooke, Lucy

Publishing Date: 2018

Classification: 500

Call Number: 590.2 COO

A tour of some of the basest instincts and vice-related mysteries of the animal world includes profiles of drunken moose, cheating penguins, lazy worker ants, and other oddities.

Voyage of the turtle: in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur

By Safina, Carl

Publishing Date: 2006

Classification: 500

Call Number: 597.9289 SAF

The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future. The decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from human interventions, and teach us lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans. The only surviving species of its suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. As naturalist Safina makes clear, the fate of the leatherback is in our hands. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua New Guinea.--From publisher description.