San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 13 1/2, 144 pgs, color photos throughout. Patricia Caulfield's photographs are perfectly complemented, in mood and spirit, by passages she has chosen from the published and unpublished writings of Peter Matthiessen. More about EVERGLADES
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 193 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos and illustrations. This is the first full length study of the Mountain Goat. The author spent the better part of 7 years in the rockies learning about this remarkable big-game animal, his wilderness haunts... More about A BEAST THE COLOR OF WINTER.; The Mountain Goat Observed
San Antonio, TX: Sierra Club Books, 1983. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 208 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos and illustrations. This is the first full length study of the mountain goat. The author spent the better part of seven years in the rockies learning about this remarkable big-game animal, his... More about A BEAST THE COLOR OF WINTER.; The Mountain Goat Observed
St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1998. Paperback. 7 x 10, 122 pgs, b&w and color photos. Celebrates the prairie and parkland resource in the Red River region connecting threads between ecology, economy and community. More about VALLEY OF GRASS; Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 270 pgs, index, appendices. Biography of Ernest O. Thompson, known as the father of petroleum conservation. Front fly torn and missing a chunk. More about THREE STARS FOR THE COLONEL
New York: Hafner, 1963. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 390 pgs, index, b&w and color illustrations. A proven field guide to the flowering plants and shrubs of the Rocky Mountain Region. Very detailed. More about ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLOWERS.; An Illustrated Guide for Plant-Lovers and Plant-Users
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1997. Hardcover. 9 1/2 x 12, 256 pgs, color photos from the Imax movie throughout, introduction by Tim Cahill, afterword by David Brashears. A first hand account from the team who made the Everest IMAX film and also became involved in the mountain's most tragic events of May 1996. More about EVEREST; Mountain Without Mercy
Australia: Sorrett Publishing, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 10 1/2, 208 pgs, index, b&w and color photos and illustrations. An interesting look at the vast minerals of Australia. More about AUSTRALIA'S MINERAL WEALTH
New York: Crescent Books, 1988. Hardcover. 10 x 13 1/2, 117 pgs, beautiful color and black and white art, introduction by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Coffee-table style book features twenty-four game birds with superb color paintings and a naturalist's essay. More about GAME BIRDS
New York: Harper & Bros. 1959. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, 683 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. Covers all species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, food & game fishes, seashells, and the principal marine invertebrates occurring annually in North America east of the Rockies and north of the 37th parallel. More about COMPLETE FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN WILDLIFE.; East, Central & North
Baltimore, MD: Waverly Press, 1938. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 244 pgs, b&w photos and charts. The author and her husband were avid bird watchers and banders. This is the record of their activities from 1923-1925. Ex-library. More about THE LOG OF TANAGER HILL
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 7, 275 pgs, b&w illustrations and a section of color photos. All about how to identify the most common flower species in the Rocky Mountain region, plus interesting facts about each. More about A FIELD GUIDE TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWERS
New York: Norton, 2001. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 442 pgs, index, notes. In this scientific meditation on and spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated natural resources - the Atlantic Ocean - the author weaves the details of the history and science of the Atlantic into... More about GREAT WATERS; An Atlantic Passage
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1985. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 199 pgs, index, color plates throughout. From Vancouver Island to Baja California, around the Gulf of Mexico and from Florida to Maine, the shore life, the human visitors and the environment. More about AMERICA'S SEASHORE WONDERLANDS
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1986. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 200 pgs, index, color photos throughout. From disaster areas to high-tech laboratories, from ancient times to the present, a gripping, sometimes terrifying journey. More about NATURE ON THE RAMPAGE.; Our Violent Earth
Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Assn. 1990. Paperback. 6 x 9, 60 pgs, color photos. An easy reference to fifty of themore commonly seen species in the Southwest. More about 50 COMMON BIRDS OF THE SOUTHWEST
New York: Macmillan, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10 1/2, 140 pgs, index, notes, color photos throughout. The result of a five year stint in the Arctic, studying the Polar Bear, rearing orphaned cubs, and recording the Eskimo lore concerning these noble animals. More about LORDS OF THE ARCTIC; A Journey Among the Polar Bears
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 198 pgs, color photos throughout. A continent-by-continent guide to threatened indigenous ways of living. More about ENDANGERED PEOPLES
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 198 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Ever since Louis Pasteur published his theories on the origin of germs, scientists the world over have focused their attention on smaller and smaller organisms. This book brings together some of... More about BIG FLEAS HAVE LITTLE FLEAS; How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science
Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 1986. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 435 pgs, section of b&w photos. De Coccola was a missionary who ministered to the people of the Central Canadian Arctic while sharing their epic struggle to sruvive in this 'land of ice and snow." More about THE INCREDIBLE ESKIMO; Life Among the Barren Land Eskimo
New York: Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 8 1/2, 296 pgs, b&w illustrations. Enables you to know what birds to expect and when by choosing the right bird feeder and stocking it with the most suitable bird feed. More about A COMPLETE GUIDE TO BIRD FEEDING
New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. 12 x 11, 180 pgs, beautiful color art reproductions. A beautiful coffee-table style book celebrates the life and talent of this well-known naturalist/artist. More about THE WORLD OF ROBERT BATEMAN
Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Geological Society, 1980. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 314 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations, folded map in envelope at back. Articles by various authors: road logs, physiography, tectonics, geophysics, precambrian geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, petrology, economic geology, geothermal resources, geomorphology, hydrology, natural history. More about TRANS-PECOS REGION; New Mexico Geological Society Thirty-First Field Conference, November 6-8, 1980
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 330 pgs, b&w photos. In the early 1960s, R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were... More about SEARCHING FOR ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES; Memoirs of a Field Worker
Globe, AZ: Southwestern Monuments Association, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 112 pgs, b&w illustrations. Covers common desert flowers of the Southwest; how to identify them, how they are and have been used by animals, native people and settlers, etc. Very worn cover. More about FLOWERS OF THE SOUTHWEST DESERTS