The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 by Sy.
In the superb essay collection Feel Free. That is what naturalist and author Sy Montgomery, one of the most poetic science writers of our time, explores in How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (public library), illustrated by artist Rebecca Green — an autobiographical adventure into the wilderness of our common humanity, where the world of science and the legacy of.
The author Sy Montgomery traveled to the Sundarbans on four separate expeditions searching for answers to the mysteries surround the tigers that live there. She listened to scientists and stories of the villagers who live by and respect the tigers on the reserve. I believe this sort of research and travel lead to a very accurately written nonfiction book. The layout is logical and there is a.
Elephant Company, cornered by the enemy, attempted a desperate escape: a risky trek over the mountainous border to India, with a bedraggled group of refugees in tow. Part biography, part war epic, Elephant Company is an inspirational narrative that illuminates a little-known chapter in the annals of wartime heroism. Praise for Elephant Company.
Here's where we ended up when the dust settled — presenting our Staff Top Fives of 2016! Doug C. We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson This amazing, funny, heartbreaking, adventurous, love-filled sci-fi (but maybe not sci-fi), coming-of-age, young-adult-but-grown-up story is indescribable, but exactly what you need. City of Weird by Gigi Little; The Best Worst Thing by Kathleen Lane; The.
Author: Paul Brooks Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children (October 1998) Originally Published: October 1, 1998 Language: English ISBN-10: 1578050170 ISBN-13: 978-1578050178. Rachel Carson is the most important environmentalist of the 20th century. Her Silent Spring, published in 1962, changed the course of history. Here.
A friend to the spineless (interview by Sy Montgomery), New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1999; Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones, April 1999; Books in Brief: Nonfiction (review of Waiting for Aphrodite by David Walton), New York Times, June 13, 1999; BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Little-Noticed World of Wonders (review of Waiting for Aphrodite by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
Howard Mansfield is the author of nine books about preservation, architecture, and history, most recently Summer Over Autumn (Bauhan 2017). He has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Historic Preservation, and Yankee. He and his wife, writer Sy Montgomery, live in a 130-year-old house in Hancock, New Hampshire.