Providing readers with a rare glimpse into one of the largest natural-science libraries in the Western Hemisphere, this fascinating collection of 40 essays from the American Museum of Natural History's top experts discuss the library's ...
Natural Histories is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.
The complicated and often vexed relationships between humans and their neighbors in the natural world are illuminated in this collection of sixteen essays that each showcase a particular animal or plant of the Tennessee Valley.
For the first time, Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom-seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from...
sees when he watches lions hunting with the image of power and majesty: When you see a lioness moving through the tall ... Ralph Pite sums up this paradox: The Cowardly Lion is just a contradiction in terms, because the lion is the ...
Natural Histories: Mary Frank's Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings