Environmentalists & Naturalists
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Dan Eatherley
Raymond Ditmars extracts venom from a cottonmouth pitviper (Agkistrodon piscivorus), c. 1935. “It’s part of my job,” he once said. (© Wildlife Conservation Society) ONE Sunday afternoon in July 1893 ...
( Category:
Reptiles & Amphibians
May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Steven Rinella
I WAS STANDING UP TO MY WAIST in the swampy muck of Lake Dubonnet, about ten miles outside of Traverse City, Michigan. The lake is, by anyone’s definition, a swamp. ...
( Category:
Game
April 22,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell
Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category:
Wildlife
April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Berra, Tim M.
DARWIN’S DEATH Father and son were still doing botanical experiments two days before Charles’s death. Frank, Henrietta, Elizabeth, and Emma were with Charles when he died on 19 April 1882. ...
( Category:
Environmentalists & Naturalists
April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde
Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category:
Wildlife
April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Linda Tucker [Tucker, Linda]
MIREILLE, JASON, AND I stand on the runway of Lanseria private airport, under the tilted metal hull of a DC3 troop carrier. Mireille is hanging tightly onto my hand. The ...
( Category:
Cats, Lions & Tigers
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Raby
10 Wallace Transformed AT ABOUT THE same time that Annie Mitten came into his life, Wallace plunged into another transforming experience. His sustained interest in spiritualism in the years to ...
( Category:
Environmentalists & Naturalists
March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]
13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...
( Category:
General
March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Oppenheimer
TWENTY Emotional Changes Bobby was faced with both love and sorrow in the nine months between asking Emily Black to be his wife and the loss of the one person ...
( Category:
State & Local
March 2,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]
The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category:
Environmental
February 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff
“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...
( Category:
Conservation
February 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Tempest Williams [Williams, Terry Tempest]
During the last week of the field course we focused on stream studies, surveying the caddis fly and mayfly larvae living in Richardson Creek. Upstream, students started yelling frantically for ...
( Category:
Women
December 23,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harry W. Greene
Philippine Negritos with freshly killed reticulated python, twenty-three feet long and twenty-six inches in circumference, at the headwaters of the Koso River in the Sierra Madre, Aurora Province, Luzon, June ...
( Category:
Ichthyology
October 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Jackson Landers
I LEFT MISSOURI WITH A COOLER FULL OF CARP and my head teeming with thoughts about entire rivers with hundreds of tons of a highly edible fish per mile and ...
( Category:
Hunting
October 13,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Heacox, Kim
MUIR WAS TIRED and unwell and unable to fully rest at home, busy with obligations in his scribble den. The grippe was back. The bronchial cough, too. His second Atlantic ...
( Category:
State & Local
July 22,2015 )
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