The world knows Charles Darwin as a keen observer of the natural world and as a theorist. But Darwin was a remarkable expermenter also, as James Costa shows in this book.

The world knows Charles Darwin as a keen observer of the natural world and as a theorist. But Darwin was a remarkable expermenter also, as James Costa shows in this book.

Noah Strycker reports on his quest to see half the world’s birds in one year (2015), traveling across forty-one countries on all seven continents with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets.

If you like the Crossley ID Guide series, or if you’ve never seen any other books by Crossley, take a look at this volume on waterfowl.

Noted author Bernd Heinrich tells us tales of a series of individual birds of multiple species and finds that there is still much to learn about even our most common birds.

Darrin Lunde, Museum Specialist in the Division of Mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, explores Teddy Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the natural world.