naturalists

When Charlie's friend Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest hoping it will cure his grandfather, and Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans.

A biography of the great explorer-adventurer, who discovered huge finds of dinosaur bones in Mongolia, pioneered modern paleontology field research, and became the director of the American Museum of Natural History.

Text and photographs profile men and women who have been prominent in the field of natural history such as Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, John James Audubon, Miriam Rothschild, Jane Goodall, and others.

Describes the expeditions led by Roy Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the British naturalist who became famous for his theories on evolution.

A biography of the nineteenth-century English naturalist whose study trips, on which he documented the diversity of animal life, led him to develop theories about evolution and natural selection.

Profiles 10 Americans who have spent the past two centuries understanding, protecting, and documenting the natural wilderness of the United States.

A collection of autobiographical stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets including crows, skunks, and raccoons.

In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.

Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this naturalist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world.