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. Box 37012, MRC 108
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Tel: 202-633-1250
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