Virginia Morell, Author . National Geographic Adventure $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7922-7951-8
This is a delightful and well-paced account of a National Geographic
team's successful 1999 journey by raft down the length of the Blue Nile—one of the two rivers of the upper Nile River—from its source in Ethiopia to the Sudan...
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Virginia Morell, Author Simon & Schuster $29.5 (638p) ISBN 978-0-684-80192-6
Born in Kenya, Louis Leakey (1903- 1972), son of a dynamic missionary, grew up among Kikuyu natives. At Cambridge in 1923, a rugby injury left him with post-traumatic epilepsy, necessitating a prolonged leave that marked the beginning of his fossil-h
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Virginia Morell . Crown, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-46144-5
Morell (Ancestral Passions), laying it out on the first page of her survey of various animals' thought processes, declares: "animals have minds. They have brains, and use them, as we do: for experiencing the world, for thinking and feeling and for...
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Virginia Morrell, read by Kirsten Potter. Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-97073-2
Morrell takes listeners on a tour the animal kingdom from ants and fish to elephants and chimps, exploring the wide range of research that shows the common traits humans share with animals, and rectifying common misconceptions about animal...
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Virginia Morell. Simon & Schuster, $18 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8120-7
Morell (Animal Wise), a National Geographic contributor, adds an inviting consideration of the marine biology field to Simon & Schuster’s Masters at Work series. She concentrates on Robin Baird, a well-known specialist in marine mammals who has...
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