Return to Wild America

Return to Wild America
Author: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429931922

In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today. How has the continent's natural landscape changed over the past fifty years? How have the wildlife, the rivers, and the rugged, untouched terrain fared? The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition. And perhaps most surprising of all, Weidensaul finds that much of what Peterson and Fisher discovered remains untouched by the industrial developments of the last fifty years. Poised to become a classic in its own right, Return to Wild America is a sweeping survey of the natural soul of North America today.

Return to Wild America

Return to Wild America
Author: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780865477315

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Wild America," naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Roger Tory Peterson's and James Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today.

Hunger for the Wild

Hunger for the Wild
Author: Michael L. Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.

Wild America

Wild America
Author: Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1997
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780395864975

An illustrated 30,000-mile tour of the continent.

Marty Stouffer's Wild America

Marty Stouffer's Wild America
Author: Marty Stouffer
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1988
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780812916102

Based upon his highly successful public television series, the author looks at some of the most fascinating wildlife of North America, focusing upon such issues as endangered species and important stages in an animal's life span

Return of Royalty

Return of Royalty
Author: Dale E. Toweill
Publisher: Boone & Crockett Club
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This book is a celebration of the return of wild sheep to many of its historical ranges. The remarkable recovery of our wild sheep populations have been documented by two widely-respected wildlife biologists and provides fascinating accounts of the decline and recovery of North American wild sheep.

Wolf Nation

Wolf Nation
Author: Brenda Peterson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0306824949

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years, makes the powerful case that without wolves, not only will our whole ecology unravel, but we'll lose much of our national soul.

The Ghost with Trembling Wings

The Ghost with Trembling Wings
Author: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-06-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780865476684

Scott Weidensaul chronicles scientists' search for extinct species, discussing how some plants and animals have reappeared after being lost for hundreds of years.

Mountains of the Heart

Mountains of the Heart
Author: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1938486897

Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching almost unbroken from Alabama to Belle Isle, Newfoundland, the Appalachians are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. In Mountains of the Heart, renowned author and avid naturalist Scott Weidensaul shows how geology, ecology, climate, evolution, and 500 million years of history have shaped one of the continent's greatest landscapes into an ecosystem of unmatched beauty. This edition celebrates the book's 20th anniversary of publication and includes a new foreword from the author.