 | The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $3.99 This science writer goes everywhere, and manages to evoke ghosts out of every place he visits. Discusses, history, both natural and sociological, and reveals plans for preserving species featured
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 | A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.50 Hilarious moments watching ornery baboons for 20 years in Kenya. Wonderful descriptions of Africa's fauna, flora and people
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 | Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve by Alan Rabinowitz
Buy new: $23.36 / Used from: $4.74 Mr. Rabinowitz's writing adds passion, flavor, and humor to the story of the incredible work he does, this time in Belize
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 | The Last Panda by George B. Schaller
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.24 Sad reality check: on the conflicts between conservation and politics with pandas as the pawn
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 | Appointments at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian by William B. Karesh
Buy used from: $3.88 Dream job: Wildlife vet for WCS, and writes about the places, people and animals in a vivid way
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 | Blue Nile: Ethiopia's River of Magic and Mystery (Adventure Press) by Virginia Morell
Buy used from: $0.47 One of my favorite National Geographic writers and her journey to the source of the Nile and back. The writing's a bit guarded, but revealing of the place and experience all the same
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