Fall 2001 Hardcovers: Nature & Environment

ALGONQUIN
100 Birds and How They Got Their Names (Jan., $18.95) by Diana Wells focuses on legends, literature, etymology, folk beliefs and history.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Oct., $34.95) by Tim Flannery, illus. by Peter Schouten, catalogues 104 creatures that have vanished over the last five centuries.

BOWTIE PRESS
Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies (Oct., $24.95) by Ginger Kathrens is the companion book to a PBS-TV nature documentary about an untamed horse. $60,000 ad/promo.

CORNELL MARITIME/TIDEWATER PUBLISHERS
Chesapeake Wildlife: Stories of Survival and Loss (Nov., $39.95) by Pat Vojtech is a photo-essay that documents the wildlife in the Chesapeake watershed over the past four centuries.

DK
Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (Nov., $24.95) by Tim Haines, published in conjunction with the BBC, features computer graphics and simulated photography in an odyssey to prehistory that will be broadcast on the Discovery Channel.
Blue Planet (Jan., $40) by Alastair Fothergill et al. is a companion guide, produced with the BBC, to the Discovery Channel's upcoming series on the world of the ocean.

FSG/NORTH POINT PRESS
Travels with Cranes (Oct., $27) by Peter Matthiessen traces the naturalist's journeys in search of 15 species of cranes on six continents with color paintings and drawings by Robert Bateman.

FIREFLY BOOKS
Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's "Monsters" and The World They Live In (Feb., $40) by Erich Hoyt takes readers to the bottom of the sea to gaze at its strange inhabitants.

FORDHAM UNIV. PRESS
Palisades: 100,000 Acres in 100 Years (Oct.; $27.50, paper $17.50) by Robert O. Binnewies marks the centennial of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.

HARPERCOLLINS
Am I Pig Enough for You Yet?: Voices of the Barnyard (Nov., $20) by Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount Jr. notes inner thoughts of livestock through pictures and verse. 50,000 first printing. Advertising.

HOLT/METROPOLITAN
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (Jan., $23) by Olivia Judson is a sex guide fusing natural history with advice on when necrophilia is acceptable, how to achieve a virgin birth and what should commit bestiality with what.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them (Jan., $24) by Cindy Engel probes zoopharmacognosy--animal self-medication--for human applications. Ad/promo. Author tour.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe and Horse (Nov., $29.95) by Norman Henderson describes three treks across Canada's grasslands that recall the experiences of earlier sojourners.

KNOPF
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior (Oct., $45) by David Allen Sibley. This National Audubon Society volume contains 796 full-color paintings that accompany essays and family chapters written by 44 ornithologists and birders. 100,000 first printing. Advertising. 10-city author tour.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Africa (Sept., $50) by John Reader, photos by Michael Lewis. This illustrated companion to an eight-hour PBS-TV series profiles the continent's peoples, flora and fauna.
An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks (Oct., $35) by Kim Heacox, foreword by Jimmy Carter, traces the evolution of the American land ethic from the 1600s to the creation of the National Park Service in 1916; includes a portfolio of Ansel Adams's photography from the 1940s.

W.W. NORTON
Fire (Oct., $23.95) by Sebastian Junger. The author of The Perfect Storm, steps into another force of nature--an inferno in the steep canyons of Idaho. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.

PANTHEON
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Sept., $23) by Terry Tempest Williams is the naturalist's paean to the red rock desert of the American Southwest. Advertising. Author tour.

PUBLICAFFAIRS
Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean (Oct., $26) by Osha Gray Davidson sounds an alarm about a lethal infection that is killing these ancient creatures. Author tour.

READER'S DIGEST
The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature (Oct., $30) by Karl Shuker scrutinizes animal behavior to ponder such questions as why dolphins rescue drowning people and whether parrots know what they're saying.

RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster That Claimed 30,000 Lives (Feb., $27) by Ernest Zebrowski Jr. documents Martinique's 1902 Mont St. Pelée eruption.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS
The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland (Nov., $40) by Kenneth Brauer chronicles the restoration of a freshwater marsh and the man who brought it back to life, winemaker Sam Sebastiani.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS
Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World (Sept., $21.95) by Ann Moyal contends that this mysterious animal helped usher in a new era of biological research.

STACKPOLE
Owls: An Artist's Guide to Understanding Owls (Oct., $80) by Floyd Scholz, photos by Tad Merrick, shares visual reference material on 16 avian species, from the tiny elf owl to the commanding great horned owl.

TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
Healing Landscapes of Texas: A Journey from the Big Thicket to the Big Bend (Nov., $29.95) by Jeanne Norsworthy. The late artist re-creates a broad swath of Texas in words and paintings.

UNIV. OF MISSOURI PRESS
Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (Oct., $24.95) by David Hamilton uncovers personal and regional layers of history at a river-bottom farm in Missouri.

UNIV. OF TENNESSEE PRESS
Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands (Nov., $55), edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Susan C. Prezzano, brings together research on the archeology of the region stretching from New England to northern Alabama.

UNIV. PRESS OF FLORIDA
El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages (Sept., $24.95) by César N. Caviedes finds evidence of the weather phenomenon in such events as the conquest of the Incas, the discovery of Easter Island and the sinking of the Titanic.

UNIV. PRESS OF KENTUCKY
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork (Jan., $29.95) by Hunter James. The newspaperman recounts his attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm.