The Photo Ark: Vanishing by Joel Sartore
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Here are the animals on their way off the planet.
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Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay By Julie Zickefoose
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We don’t simply get to know Jemima; we get to be Jemima as we are welcomed into Julie’s family home.
Read MoreEnd Times by Bryan Walsh
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Written in an engaging style that is by turns inviting and slightly irksome.
Read MoreWading Right In by Catherine Owen Koning & Sharon M. Ashworth
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The added charm of this book comes from its warmly human elements.
Read MoreBirds in Winter by Roger F. Pasquier
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Birds in Winter is extensively illustrated and a perfect pitch between professional-level scientific detail and popular-level general interest.
Read MoreThe Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
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The march of technology and the mass of satellites overhead have done little to tame this enormous renegade world.
Read MoreNatural Rivals by John Clayton
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Two towering figures in the history of American wildlife conservation advance and refine the concept of public lands in America.
Read MoreMosquito by Timothy Winegard
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An engaging account of the mosquito’s impact on the broader world.
Read MoreIn the Valleys of the Noble Beyond by John Zada
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Despite the towering creature at its heart, the genius of In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond is most often its human pathos.
Read MoreEat Like a Fish by Bren Smith
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The particular kind of “climate cuisine” Smith has in mind is a little tough to swallow.
Read MoreAmerican Eagle: A Visual History of Our National Emblem by Preston Cook
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Dedicated to the mage that has been synonymous with the United States since before the United States formally existed.
Read MoreDown from the Mountain by Bryce Andrews
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There will be more books like Down from the Mountain as more bears hit the immovable object of the American farming industry.
Read MoreThe World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour by Mark A. Norell
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This author is well-practiced at conveying vast amounts of complex scientific information in a smooth and accessible narration.
Read MoreHow To Know the Birds by Ted Floyd
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A “storybook for bird lovers” organized by season and general type of birding experience.
Read MoreThe Sakura Obsession by Naoko Abe
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One of the most charming, offbeat biographies to appear in years.
Read MoreThe Last Whalers by Doug Bock Clark
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The story of the world’s last remaining subsistence whalers.
Read MoreIn Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
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Oakes takes us along as she and her team fight the damp and cold of the Alaskan wilderness to gather data.
Read MoreThe End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
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Communicates a compelling voice from a speaker who’s well-intentioned, well-studied and considerate, but hopelessly aloof.
Read MoreExtreme Conservation by Joel Berger
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Berger goes to back-of-beyond places, observing animals as well as hardy groups of humans.
Read MoreBen Goldfarb Q&A about BEAVERS!
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Open Letters talked with author Ben Goldfarb about this sometimes-maligned fixture of the natural world.
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