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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her …
Exploring the Other Island: A Seasonal Guide to Nature on Long Island
"A singularly effective guide. Inspired concept. Highly recommended " George Plimpton noted on the first edition of John Turner's classic guide to the natural world of Long Island. …
Shifting Baselines
"Shifting Baselines" explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, …
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."--The …
Eye of the Albatross
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." --The Boston GlobeEye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and …
The View From Lazy Point
Hailed as "a Thoreau for the twenty-first century", MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on …
Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel (a Young Reader's Adaptation)
A middle-grade nonfiction adaptation of Carl Safina's New York Times bestseller Beyond Words, which weaves decades of field observations about elephants and whales into an intimate …
Alfie and Me
When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they’d rescued, she’d be a temporary presence. But …
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was …