Scott Weidensaul, Author . FSG/North Point $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-24664-8
Approximately 30,000 species of animals and plants go extinct every year. Weidensaul's narrative concerns those rare occurrences when a supposedly extinct animal makes a surprise reappearance, and the much more frequent occasions when scientists
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Scott Weidensaul, Author . FSG/North Point $25 (394p) ISBN 978-0-86547-688-2
In the midst of environmental-policy gloom and global-warming doom, Weidensaul's poetic account of his travels to several scattered wilderness oases of North America is an unexpected tonic. The naturalist and author (Living on the Wind
)...
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Scott Weidensaul, Author . Harcourt $25 (358p) ISBN 978-0-15-101247-3
Weidensaul (Return to Wild America
) traces bird watching in America from colonial times to the present, when powerful binoculars and other sophisticated technologies have revolutionized the sport. He entertainingly describes many early naturalists...
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Scott Weidensaul, Author North Point Press $26 (420p) ISBN 978-0-86547-543-4
Scientists estimate that more than five billion birds weave their migratory patterns across (and beyond) the Western hemisphere each year. Some, like the wheatears that fly from Alaska to Africa, undertake journeys of astounding distance, while...
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Scott Weidensaul. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-151-01515-3
In this charming and fascinating chronicle, historian Weidensaul points out that the earliest frontier in America stretched from the Atlantic coast inland to the high, rugged ranges of the Appalachians, and from the Maritimes to Florida. By telling...
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Scott Weidensaul. Norton, $32 (432p) ISBN 978-0-393-60890-8
“In the past two decades we’ve realized how badly we have underestimated the simple physical abilities of birds,” suggests naturalist Weidensaul (Living on the Wind) in this remarkable look at global bird migration. “The world is changing around us,”
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Scott Weidensaul, illus. by Nancy Lane. Gryphon, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-940719-47-7
This painterly picture book traces the migration of a single yellow warbler, “the color of a ripe lemon,” from the tropical forests of Nicaragua to the far reaches of subarctic Canada, offering glimpses of three children who spot it along the way....
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