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Next of Kin
What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are
by Roger Fouts with Stephen Tukel Mills
Fouts takes the reader on his remarkable odyssey from student to one of the country's leading animal researchers. This book is a heart-wrenching exploration of man's kinship with the great apes and a thoroughly persuasive screed against the inhumane treatment of our closest relatives, abuses that continue to this day in the dubious name of research.
-- JONATHAN LARSEN
paperback (ISBN: 0380728222)
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The Good Good Pig
The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
by Sy Montgomery
Female author meets piglet. Piglet gets wormed and starts to grow, eventually weighing 750 pounds. Woman and pig (and woman's husband and dog) live together for 14 years. Pig dies a natural death and is buried with tears, tenderness, and a small plaque. The Good Good Pig is a love story and a memoir, and its strength lies in Montgomery's understanding of how her relationship with a common domestic pig enhanced her relationships with human beings.
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hardcover (ISBN: 0345481372)
paperback (ISBN: 0345496094)
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Two in the Far North
by Margaret E. Murie, Terry Tempest Williams and Olaus J. Murie (Illustrator)
This is the life story of Margaret Murie, who grew up in Alaska before it was a state, tramped its wild lands before they were mapped, and has worked hard to preserve its wild places. Murie, considered by many to be the "Grande Dame" of the American conservation movement, recounts how she grew to understand, respect and love the Alaskan frontier during the early 20th century, and explores the many aspects of nature in Alaska -- from plagues of mosquitoes to the movement of caribou. A beautiful book, with especially captivating stories about Murie's honeymoon with husband Olaus, a wildlife biologist in Northern Alaska who contributes over 30 wonderful illustrations to Murie's book.
-- FRANCES BEINECKE
paperback (ISBN: 088240489X)
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John James Audubon
The Making of an American
by Richard Rhodes
By the time he was 35, John James Audubon had changed his name, his country and his career several times over. Rhodes's portrait of America's first great wildlife artists reveals a self-made man in a self-made nation, where perpetual re-invention was the norm. With a scientist's eye and a painter's touch, not unlike those of Audubon, Rhodes has captured this mutable, multifaceted and often surprising character in a work of perception, depth and elegance.
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hardcover (ISBN: 0375414126)
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