Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk, Grove Press, 2014
Sallie McFague, The Body of God, Fortress Press, 1993
John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
Farley Mowat, Sea of Slaughter, McClelland and Stewart, 1984
JoAnne M. Mowczko, The Achuar of the Pastaza River, self-published, 2014
Roger Tory Peterson, edited by Bill Thompson III, All Things Reconsidered, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo, Scribner, 1996
Alan Rabinowitz, Jaguar, Arbor House, 1986; Chasing the Dragon’s Tail, Doubleday, 1991; Beyond the Last Village, Island Press, 2001; Life in the Valley of Death, Island Press, 2008; An Indomitable Beast, Island Press, 2014
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, Penguin, 1993
David Rothenberg, Why Birds Sing, Basic Books, 2005
Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean, Henry Holt, 1998; Beyond Words, Henry Holt, 2015
George B. Schaller, A Naturalist and Other Beasts, Sierra Club Books, 2007; Tibet Wild, Island Press, 2012
Phoebe Snetsinger, Birding on Borrowed Time, American Birding Association, 2003
Rob Stewart with Evan Rosser, Save the Humans, Random House Canada, 2012
William Stolzenburg, Heart of a Lion, Bloomsbury, 2016
Alfred Russel Wallace, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, 1853
Scott Weidensaul, Living on the Wind, North Point Press, 1999
Terry Tempest Williams, Red, Vintage, 2002
E. O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth, Liveright, 2012
Steve Winter with Sharon Guynup, Tigers Forever, National Geographic Society, Panthera, 2013
Patricia Chapple Wright, For the Love of Lemurs, Lantern Books, 2014
Julie Zickefoose, The Bluebird Effect, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
I also recommend all the books in Cemex corporation’s nature and conservation series produced over the past twenty years. Authored by top scientists such as Conservation International’s Russell A. Mittermeier and including thousands of photographs by leading conservation photographers, these books are both enlightening and beautiful.
Illustration Credits
All of the photographs in the book were taken by Jane Alexander, with her camera, with the exception of those listed below, which were given graciously by Steve Winter, Dubi Shapiro and Joan de la Malla, Luis Garrido, scientists Bruce Beehler and Alan Rabinowitz, and conservationist Caroline Gabel.
1 Courtesy of Alan Rabinowitz
2 Courtesy of Steve Winter
3 Courtesy of Steve Winter
4 Courtesy of Bruce Beehler
5 Courtesy of Caroline Gabel
6 Courtesy of Tom Lovejoy
7 Courtesy of Bill Conway
8 Courtesy of Dubi Shapiro
9 Courtesy of Bruce Beehler
10 © Luiz Garrido, courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society
11 Courtesy of Joan de la Malla
12 Courtesy of Joan de la Malla
13 Courtesy of Bruce Beehler
14 Courtesy of Joan de la Malla
15 Courtesy of Joan de la Malla
16 Courtesy of David Yarnold
Alan Rabinowitz and his wife, Salisa, on top of the world, Nepal, 1990
Tiger in Kanha, India, 2004
Hyacinth Macaws at their roost hole in the Pantanal, Brazil
The first Jaguar I ever saw in the wild, Brazil's Pantanal, 2010
In the mountains of Peru on tree-planting day, 2006
The Marvellous Spatuletail Hummingbird in Peru Credit 8
A clansman in Papua New Guinea sports many kinds of Bird-of-Paradise feathers, including the longest tail feathers in the world, the white ones, from the Ribbon-tailed Astrapia, 2010. Credit 9
He looks fierce, but this Marine Iguana from Galápagos is all bluff.
The Uakari, a primate from the flooded forests of Mamirual, Brazil Credit 10
My grandsons: Mac finds a small chameleon in Madagascar, and Finn snaps a shot, 2015.
The Fossa is one of the few carnivores in Madagascar—eating lemurs mostly, 2015. Credit 11
My husband, Ed Sherin, and me in heaven in Bhutan, 2012
The bird I most wanted to see in the world, the rare Monal Pheasant, Bhutan, 2012
Achuar tribesman Simon Santi paints his face out of respect for the rainforest, Ecuador, 2014.
A Poison Dart Frog we spied on a tree fungus, Kapawi, Ecuador, 2014
These Salps may have existed for 500 million years, but with a central nervous system, they are the same phylum, Chordata, as human beings.
The Comet Moth in Madagascar is one of the largest, most delicate moths in the world. Credit 12
A young Mahout with his charges in India, 2004
Gabriel changing the radio collar on the Tree Kangaroo Trish, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 2010 Credit 13
A chameleon grabs lunch, Madagascar, 2015. Credit 14
The Norwegians in the embrace of a giant kapok tree
The Giraffe Weevil, Madagascar, 2015 Credit 15
This wild two-month-old Black-backed Gull adopted us in the summer of 2013 and formed a relationship with my little dog, Drama.
The killer in my Nova Scotia woods. This Merlin decimated the songbird population during the summer of 2014.
Me in the Bahamas Credit 16
The light is always changing over the ocean. The view from our Nova Scotia home
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