ANIMALS AND PEOPLE May 9, 2008
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Reading Recommendations.trackback
So I did manage to pull myself away from the animal webcams and come up with a starting point of interesting books about animals. Feel free to weigh in with your personal favorite.
- Why pandas do handstands : and other curious truths about animals; by Augustus Brown. After all of the webcam watching, feed your curiosity with lots of entertaining and educational facts about animals.
- Songbird journeys : four seasons in the lives of migratory birds; by Miyoko Chu. Night and day in spring and fall millions of birds pass over our heads in an amazing cycle of migration.
- The good, good pig : the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood; by Sy Montgomery. Most of the webcams followed wild or captive wild animals, but in this book, Montgomery describes her 14 years with her completely domesticated 750-lb. pig.
- One kingdom : our lives with animals; by Deborah Noyes. This former zoo-keeper has much to say about human-animal interactions in this photo-essay.
- Astonishing animals : extraordinary creatures and the fantastic worlds they inhabit; by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten. A scientist and a painter team up to open our eyes to some amazing animals that live in unusual places.
- Build me an ark : a life with animals; by Brenda Peterson. A highly personal account of encounters with animals both domestic and wild.
- The ten trusts : what we must do to care for the animals we have; by Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff. Explores the deeper issues of conservation, science, and environmental concern from the authors’ personal experiences.
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; by Annie Dillard. A classic of nature writing (and my personal favorite) that is about so much more.
- Hunting for frogs on Elston : and other tales from field and street; by Jerry Sullivan. If you look around the city and see only concrete, read some of the late Jerry Sullivan’s columns for “The Reader” and you’ll realize you’re only seeing part of the story.
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