Books
The course has no assigned text. You will be expected to present a book report to the class with a partner,
starting on 17 October.
Select from the following:
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Bartram, William. The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist's Edition. Edited by Francis Harper. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1958. Reprint, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. ISBN 0820320277
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Buchmann, Stephen L., and Gary Paul Nabhan. The Forgotten Pollinators. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
ISBN 1559633530 [Reviewers Amy W. + Taylor P., Dec 5]
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Campbell, David G. 2007. A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia. Rutgers Universtiy Press. ISBN 978-0813540528.
[Reviewers Olakekan Kamau-Nataki + Kate H.,Nov.7]
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Carr, Archie. The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1980. ISBN 978-0813006390
[Reviewers Matt Foretich + Alex Wright, Dec 5]
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Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Penguin (Non-Classics), 2011. ISBN 978-0143117001
[Reviewers William L. + Jack G., Nov.28]
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Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections). New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2001.
ISBN 0195146174
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Louv, R. 2005. Last Child in the Woods. Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. ISBN 978156512391 [Reviewers: Caleb A. + Brendan M., Nov 7]
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Mann, Charles C. 2005. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Knopf. ISBN 978-1400040063. [Reviewers Todd P. + Malavika R., Nov 28]
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Mowat, Farley. Sea of Slaughter. Mariner Books, 1996. ISBN-10:1576300196/13:978-1576300190
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Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. New York: Scribner, 1997.
ISBN 0684827123
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Ray, Janisse. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (World As Home, The). Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000.
ISBN 1571312471 [Reviewers Amanda H. + Tierney O., Nov 28]
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Roberts, Callum. The Unnatural History of the Sea. Washington: Shearwater, 2009.
ISBN 1597265772
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Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. New York: Digireads.Com, 2005.
ISBN 1420922610 [Reviewers Cody J. + Stephanie M., Nov 7]
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Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. ISBN: 978-0393319408
[Reviewers Stenka V. + Sergio M., Nov 7]
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Wilson, Edward O.. The Future of Life. New York: Vintage, 2003.
ISBN 0679768114 [Reviewers Danielle A. + Brett B., Nov 28]
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Wilson, Edward O. The Naturalist. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55963-288-7
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