The story of a father and son who search for life's meaning in very different ways. "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats."--Kirkus Reviews

The Starship and the Canoe

Biographies & Memoirs

Kenneth Brower

Professionals & Academics

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

For more than ten years, William R. Curtsinger has specialized in photographing marine mammals. No one else in the world has produced a body of work on them anything like it. His photographs are the kind that make you wonder how in the world they were taken. Sidney Holt's introduction, drawn from his decades of experience with the politics and biology of the sea, gives the scientist's view of the so-called rational exploitation of living marine resources, and concludes that "the state of the art of assessing the state of the whale consists of some hard data, soft theory, a little knowledge, and a heap of speculation." Wake Of The Whale has the power, we hope, to prevent a wake for the whale, for other cetaceans, and for their distant relatives, including ourselves.

Wake of the Whale

Dutton Adult

Describes how California winemaker Sam Sebastiani restored a field on his property to its natural condition, a freshwater marsh, with the help of Ducks Unlimited, creating a ninety-acre preserve that is home to 156 species of birds and other wildlife.

The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland

Science & Math

Michael Sewell

Biological Sciences

Sierra Club Books

A portrait of the modern environmental movement
 The twentieth-century environmental movement owes much to a single man: David Brower. Countless natural wonders would have been lost if not for his efforts and the tremendous energy put forth by organizations he directed and/or founded (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth Island Institute). A tireless defender of wild areas, Brower worked to protect iconic places, including the Grand Canyon and the California redwood forests, and his work and passion helped define modern environmentalism.
 For the hundredth anniversary of David Brower's birth, his son Kenneth Brower, an acclaimed nature writer, has brought together the testimonies of twenty environmental leaders whose lives and careers were transformed by David Brower; the result is a book in which a repertory company of path-forgers reveal their deepest values and most moving experiences. Reading like an adventure novel told by the intrepid folks who rode alongside Brower, The Wildness Within presents illuminating anecdotes about a multifaceted man who changed the world, serving as a guide to young people and a bane to bureaucrats and others more cautious in their approach to the crises at hand. 
 Contributors include: Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First! Harold Gilliam, former San Francisco Chronicle environmental columnist Paul Hawken, founder of Smith and Hawken, and coauthor of Natural Capitalism Randall Hayes, founder of The Rainforest Action Network Huey Johnson, pioneer environmentalist and founder of the Trust for Public Land Amory Lovins, author of Reinventing Fire Nancy Skinner, coauthor of 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth

Wildness Within, The: Remembering David Brower

Heyday

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