Posts tagged with ‘Nature Writing’
November 11, 2012
A MARVELOUSLY ENJOYABLE TOUR of so-called “living fossils”—the world’s oldest (and strangest) organisms.
Grade: A MINUS
HORSESHOE CRABS AND VELVET WORMS: THE STORY OF THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS THAT TIME HAS LEFT BEHIND
Knopf
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Paleontology, Science
March 26, 2012
THE SECRET WORLD OF SHARKS comes alive in this easy-going, anecdotal, but thoroughly researched book.
Grade: SOLID B
DEMON FISH: TRAVELS THROUGH THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SHARKS
Pantheon
2011
Tags: Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science Writing, Solid B Reviews
March 22, 2012
SURPRISINGLY ENGROSSING STUDY of the history of water rights policy and the challenges of freshwater access.
Grade: SOLID B
THE RIPPLE EFFECT: THE FATE OF FRESHWATER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: Environmentalism, History of Science, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Public Policy, Science, Solid B Reviews
December 19, 2011
VETERAN MYTH INVESTIGATOR Joe Nickell looks into many legends of supernatural critters with wit and insight.
Grade: SOLID B
TRACKING THE MAN-BEASTS: SASQUATCH, VAMPIRES, ZOMBIES, AND MORE
Prometheus Books
2011
Tags: History of Science, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science, Sociology, Solid B Reviews
October 27, 2011
FASCINATING REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE follows conservation biologists fighting invasive species on remote islands.
Grade: B PLUS
RAT ISLAND: PREDATORS IN PARADISE AND THE WORLD'S GREATEST WILDLIFE RESCUE
Bloomsbury
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science
October 23, 2011
SEARING AND ELOQUENT memoir of child sexual abuse, family dysfunction, and the healing power of nature.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS: A MEMOIR
Free Press
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime
October 16, 2011
A NATURE WRITER LOOKS at the social and historical impact of weeds, and offers a defense of their complexity.
Grade: SOLID B
WEEDS: IN DEFENSE OF NATURE'S MOST UNLOVED PLANTS
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid B Reviews
March 7, 2011
THOUGHTFUL, POETIC MEMOIR of an evangelical girlhood by a writer who came to find the divine in nature.
Grade: SOLID B
I WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND
Da Capo
2010
Tags: Memoirs, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Religion, Solid B Reviews
February 22, 2011
IDEALS OF UTOPIA explored in the context of today’s planned environments; reportage adds fun to philosophizing.
Grade: SOLID B
IN UTOPIA
St. Martin's
2010
Tags: History, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid B Reviews
January 31, 2011
QUIRKY, OFTEN POETIC memoir of art, nature, family, and Native culture from Leslie Marmon Silko.
Grade: SOLID B
THE TURQUOISE LEDGE
Viking
2010
Tags: Memoirs, Native American Writers, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Writers of Color