Several weeks ago I asked for recommendations of books similar to "Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen. My sincere thanks to everyone who responded; I have quite a bit of reading ahead of me!
Here is the list of books recommended, listed in no particular order. Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312339003/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Stephen J. O'Brien Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1934137081/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Bill Green Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805061223/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Carl Safina Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805062297/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Carl Safina Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520225147/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Brian Czech One River <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684834960/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Wade Davis The Trees in My Forest <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929421/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Bernd Heinrich The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375760393/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Michael Pollan Naturalist <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446671991/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance> - Edward O. Wilson The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393064980/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Stephen Jay Gould The Voyage of the Beagle <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1426203918/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Charles Darwin The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics) <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141186070/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - John Steinbeck A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat Of Species Invasions (Scope Series - Scientific Committee on Pro) <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559630515/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Yvonne Baskin Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001FA23YK/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Elizabeth Kolbert Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140233881/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Richard Manning Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393326098/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - David Quammen 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400032059/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Charles C. Mann Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374166854/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Thomas L. Friedman Last Chance to See <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345371984/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Douglas Adams Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691136289/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Douglas H. Erwin A Sand County's Almanac - Aldo Leopold Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060838590/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Simon Winchester The World Without Us <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001C2E0QK/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Alan Weisman King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813342996/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - David Montgomery Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559633611/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - James A. Lichatowich Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262571218/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Tijs Goldschmidt Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374530432/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Alan Burdick Ravens in Winter <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679732365/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Bernd Heinrich Arctic Dreams <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727485/ref=ord_cart_s hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Barry Lopez The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067973337X/ref=pd_luc_mri ?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Jonathan Weiner Jennie Miller Research Assistant Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Vertebrate Zoology P.O. 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