Wild Life covers a wide range of modern Americana in the 21st century. Wild Life is funny, true, and meaningful.
THE SUMMER BEFORE senior year Mason Darrow is still mourning his virginity and feeling unlovable, but someone is about to arrive who will change all of that.
And with that he started to run. * At first we stuck together, puffing out our cheeks as we scrambled after Marshall. I figured nobody would exert themselves for an extra bowl of curried vegetables. I'd underestimated our capacity for ...
When she had sat down on the ground and unlaced her left shoe , she stood again and deliberately pressed her bare sole ... the stinging nettles , the leftbehind stones , the one shoe and one bare foot imprinting in the black clay a dim ...
In this story of adventure and survival, Erik learns about the challenges and satisfactions of living off the land, the power of family secrets, and the pain of losing what you love.
Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation.
Studio photographs of animals against a solid black background.
For the study of management effectiveness see Fiona Leverington et al., “A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness,” ... Cited in Ballou, Gilpin, and Foose, Population Management for Survival and Recovery, xvi. 87.
"Wild Life celebrates the centenary and legacy of Charley Harper, a master of midcentury American illustration: a vast collection of works originally created as posters, magazine covers, murals, and more.
When 12-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs ...
Wild Life: Francis Bacon, Peter Beard
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.
Sprinkled with anecdotes about such luminaries as Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, and with photographs throughout, this volume is sure to enlighten and entertain anyone with an interest in science, the human condition, or the nature ...
It is the early 1900s and Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a thoroughly modern woman. The sole provider for her five young boys, Charlotte is a fiercely independent, freethinking woman of...
Written with insight and humor, and packed with facts about biology and behavior, Edward Kanze's profiles of North American wildlife explore the intrinsic fascination of a wide variety of individual...
This book is a compendium of short stories and excerpts of personal journal entries from the life of Jack Whitman, a wildlife biologist who spent fifty years in some of the wildest places that remain on this earth.
... warning—don't try this at home), to the common cold. And being stabbed with a dagger with a genuine rhino-horn handle is a high-status way to get killed in the Yemen. By 1984 Zambia's rhinos had already been virtually annihilated. Now ...
This book is a compendium of short stories and excerpts of personal journal entries from the life of Jack Whitman, a wildlife biologist who spent fifty years in some of the wildest places that remain on this earth.
Author of the acclaimed crime expose, Huckstepp, John Dale skillfully turns his pen to an intriguing blend of mystery, travel and memoir. Stunningly imagined, Dale re-creates the life and death of his grandfather.
He's the thorn in a zoo volunteer's side, an easy mark in an aging actress's sights, and the co-conspirator in his doting granddaughter's life. When all four paths intersect, Milo discovers just how WILD LIFE can get.