James Oliver Curwood's novel KAZAN, including its sequel Baree, Son of Kazan, is a gripping tale of survival, love, and redemption set in the harsh wilderness of the Canadian North.
In 'Die Forschungsreise des Afrikaners Lukanga Mukara ins innerste Deutschland' nimmt uns Hans Paasche mit auf eine faszinierende Reise in die deutsche Kolonialzeit.
Featuring incredible photography and insight from an international team with long-term ties to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Bat Island spotlights the unique beauty and environmental importance of the seventy-six species of bats on Panama's Barro Colorado Island.
Der lange Weg des MenschenDas Aussterben der Dinosaurier war die große Chance der Säugetiere: Jahrelang lebten sie im Schatten der Ungetüme, nun eroberten sie sich die Erde zurück.
This easy-to-read, fact-filled guide features over 80 mammal species found in the Kruger National Park, one of Africas most popular game-viewing destinations.
Mammals are animals of the Mammalia, a large class of warm blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four chambered heart.
Mammals are animals of the Mammalia, a large class of warm blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four chambered heart.
Mammals are animals of the Mammalia, a large class of warm blooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four chambered heart.
Identifying wildlife in Britain and Ireland is quick and easy with this complete practical field guide to the animals, plants, and fungi of the British Isles.
Besides being a world-famous game-viewing destination, the Kruger National Park is home to an incredible diversity of bugs, beetles, butterflies, spiders, scorpions and other creepy-crawlies.
Excerpt: "e;A COMPLETE WORK, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, BEARING ON THE WORLD'S DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF THE DOG, GROUPED UNDER THEIR SEVERAL NATIONALITIES, WITH DESCRIPTIVE MATTER EXPLAINING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND UTILITY OF EACH"e;.
Can a man, alone in the Canadian wilderness, in the depths of the worst winter in memory, surrounded by wolves, survive and fulfill his unique destiny?
'A delight' Hugh Warwick, ecologist and author of A Prickly Affair'Hilarious and heartbreaking' Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell'A triumph' Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild, Being a Human and A Little Brown Sea'A necessary nature book, with prose as sharp as prickles.
The "e;hilarious and moving"e; true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants-a 500-pound cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear (Scotsman).
Part history, part travelogue, part environmental manifesto, The Last Bonobo forces us to reexamine established modes of conservationwhile blazing a path toward new, sustainable solutions to our most urgent environmental issues.
Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming.
Advances in Cellular Neurobiology, Volume 5 focuses on cellular neurobiology, drawing on some aspects of biochemistry, endocrinology, embryology, morphology, genetics, pharmacology, pathology, and physiology.
Natural and Induced Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity: Effector and Regulatory Mechanisms contains the proceedings of the Erwin Riesch Symposium organized on the occasion of the Fifth Centennial of the University of Tubingen in Germany on October 20-23, 1977.