San Antonio College Library

From exploitation, superstition and prejudice, man's attitude to his environment and the other creatures who inhabit it has changed radically over the past two hundred years. That it has done so has resulted largely from the work of the naturalist pioneers, which first gradually dispelled ignorance and then replaced it with interest and sympathy. This book celebrates these figures; evaluates the contribution of zoos and National Parks in the cause...

Those who have come through Leopold's work to share his lucid appreciation of life's essential elegance will find the style of this volume faithful to its inspiration. For those who have heretofore had to infer Leopold's landscape from his prose,the photographs of Charles Steinhacker, who conceived the idea for this book, offer a unique opportunity to see the context from which Leopold's words take their original impetus and meaning. Susan Flader,...

Contains essays on Darwin's ideas plus excerpts from Autobiography, The voyage of the beagle, The origin of species, and The descent of man.

Describes Darwin's famous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle and documents the development of his ideas, and the controversy that greeted them.

Armed with hand lenses and opera glasses, traveling on foot, by buggy, or model T, they explored thousands of miles of deserts, forests, beaches, and jungles. They were pioneering women naturalists who observed, studied, and experimented, then returned to write up their findings. What resulted were exquisitely written and scientifically accurate accounts of their explorations into natural science - a field long dominated by men. Marcia Myers Bonta...

On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and...

Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

"David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--which sent more than a thousand...

"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1892 ... under the title, Charles Darwin, his life told in an autobiographical chapter." Includes bibliographical references.