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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conservationist who has dedicated her life to saving orphan elephants in Africa describes her relationships with her late husband, Tsavo Park warden David Sheldrick, and a host of animals, including the majestic elephant, Eleanor.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya.
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Author
Language
English
Description
"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin....
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
264 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles the work of forty of the leading conservationists and the animals and causes they are committed to saving, including Belinda Low, Doublas Hamilton, Karen Eckert, and S.T. Wong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles men and women who have been prominent in the field of natural history. Includes a list of organizations promoting conservation and nature study.
11) Bindi Irwin
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bindi Irwin lives in a zoo! She presents on television about animals and conservation. Learn about how she overcame tregedy to find success!.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the conservation movement by ranchers, farmers, river workers, and fishermen who in spite of separating themselves from political environmentalism are helping to restore and protect America's grasslands, wildlife, wetlands, and oceans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
*Explores why humans are endangering orangutans and their biomes and how and why some people have devoted their careers to helping save them"--Provided by publisher.
15) Saving the tiger
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
*Explores why humans are endangering tigers and their biomes and how and why some people have devoted their careers to helping save them"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
*Explores why humans are endangering gorillas and their biomes and how and why some people have devoted their careers to helping save them"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
*Explores why humans are endangering sea turtles and their biomes and how and why some people have devoted their careers to helping save them"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
*Explores why humans are endangering snow leopards and their biomes and how and why some people have devoted their careers to helping save them"--Provided by publisher.
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