Haldane once said "may not only be greater than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." Eiseley's ruminations engendered wonder a half-century ago, and they do so more than ever now. This is a book of intellectual explorations of both the known and the unknown, and hence unexpected, universe, which geneticist J.B.S. The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley (1969). He professes an inability to maintain "a constant level of high thinking," disavows any claim to being a naturalist, and says he has a "yearning for the howling wilderness we call modern American life." Buy it here. In this book, Abbey considers some of his previous writing about the West. The American West has long been a big topic for those of the East, and Pennsylvania native Edward Abbey chose it as his eventual home. This incredible story is the result of McIntyre's dogged and renowned close following of the Yellowstone wolves and their ecosystem after wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995.
Wolf No. 8, in Yellowstone Park, was a runt of his pack who rose to become the alpha.
The Rise of Wolf 8 by Rick McIntyre (2019). Fossey, a biologist, changed our minds forever about these noble primates, and she was still living among them when she was murdered in 1985. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (1983).įossey's classic account of studying gorillas as individuals in Virunga National Park, over 15 years, is a classic. It reminds you of what was, and what can be. Huxley's vivid and moving memoir describes, in evocative prose, growing up in Kikuyu country in Kenya. Those who live or travel in Africa may wonder what life was once like there. The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley (1962). It switches from sorcerers to scientists, dreads to dreams, biology to sociology. O'Hanlon's account of an epic journey he made into the heart of the Congo to Lake Télé, accompanied by two companions, delivers nonstop adventure. In Racing the Clock, his new book, he examines aging through the lens of his decades as a long-distance runner. Bernd Heinrich is a renowned biologist whose two dozen books include Mind of the Raven and A Year in the Maine Woods.
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