Russell What Walks This Way

Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56107-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russell, Sharman Apt

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Ribbon of Life
2. Turn Your Dog’s Paw Upside Down
3. Coyotes Are the Original Aikido
4. Let’s Just Enjoy Foxes
5. It Almost Seems Wolves Should Be Allowed to Vote
6. We’ll Lift That Lion Right Off That Limb
7. Bobcat and Lynx
8. A Black-and-White Aesthetic
9. The Entangled World of Humans and Raccoons
10. Three Bears
11. The Sudden Beating of Brains
12. You Think You Know What the IUCN Is Going to Say
13. The Little Guys
14. Hooves
15. Skulls and Bones
16. A New Vision of Wildlife Management
17. The Evaluation
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sharman Apt Russell teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles and is a professor emeritus at Western New Mexico University. She is the author of a dozen books and winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing.

Kim A. Cabrera is a master tracker and well-known wildlife tracking educator.