Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Variety of mammals -- Mammalian evolution -- Moving on four legs -- How mammals eat -- Attack, defense and survival -- Wanderers and the stay-at-homes -- Love life -- Toward man

Photographs and text explore the natural wonders of Alaska, and provide insight into the lives of some of the people who choose to live in the last great American wilderness.

From the publisher. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history -- social, economic, and...

Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century

"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...

Discusses the land, vegetation, and wildlife of wilderness areas of many islands of the Caribbean.

An introduction to some of the Bible stories through the animals of the Old and New Testaments.

Austin's famous poetic study of the lands between Death Valley and the High Sierras features fourteen sketches describing plants, animals, mountains, birds, skies, Indians, prospectors, towns, and other aspects, portraying the desert as a place of rare, austere beauty that weaves a lasting spell over its inhabitants