Sy Montgomery (see also memoir) is a naturalist, award-winning author, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who writes for children as well as adults. Sy lives with her husband, author Howard Mansfield, in New Hampshire.
Souls of the Air: Involking the Essence of Birds (Simon & Schuster 2010).
The Good, Good Pig: the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood (see Memoir.)
In Search of the Golden Moon Bear (Simon & Schuster 2003) covers the mystery of this illusive animal and documents what may be a new species.
Journey of the Pink Dolphin: An Amazon Quest (Simon & Schuster 2000) chronicles Sy’s odyssey into the heart of the Amazon guided by pink river dolphins. Says Joni Praded of Animals Magazine: “like reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez—with natural history.”
Seasons of the Wild: A Year of Nature’s Magic and Mysteries (Chapters 1995).
Spell of the Tiger: Man-Eaters of the Sunderbans (Houghton Mifflin 1995) was praised by Christopher Lehman-Haupt of The New York Times as “fascinating and moving.” Sy and her book were the subjects of a National Geographic documentary which aired in the fall of 1996.
Nature’s Everyday Mysteries: A Field Guide to the World in Your Backyard (Chapters 1993).
Walking With the Great Apes (Houghton Mifflin 1991) is a study of primatologists Fossey, Goodall, and Galdikas. The New York Times Book Review described it as “fascinating, shrewd, sensitive, and thought-provoking.” It was listed in The New York Times’ Most Notable Books, 1991.
Julian Crandall Hollick
Ganges
(Random House India, 2007; Island Press, 2007)
Katherine Payne has attracted international attention as a fnaturalist and acoustic biiologist for her semibnak work on elephant communication. She is currently at Cornell University's Biocoustical Research program. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and is the mother of four (now adult) children.
Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants (Simon & Schuster 1998, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998, Penguin 1999) is Katie’s moving personal account based on a ten-year study of how elephants communicate that interweaves science with autobiography, myth, and spirituality.
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Work in Progress: Based on Katie Payne’s continuing work, a
memoir of her recent experiences with the elephants of
Dick Russell is an award-winning environmental journalist.
The Striper Wars: An
American Fish Story
(
“…This is the saga of the greatest, most hard-won fisheries management success story in the world…” Carl Safina, author of The Blue Ocean.
“…We are grateful for Dick
Russell’s brilliant writing, but the stripers are even more grateful for his
efforts on their behalf.” Richard Ellis, author of The
Eye of the Whale:
An Epic Journey from Baja to
In praise of the book, Robert F. Kennedy writes, “Dick Russell has done for the gray whale what he did for the striped bass -- taught us to love both the fish and the fisherman…” Robert Michael Pyle – author of Chasing Monarchs, “If there is an Ishmael for our times, it is Dick Russell.
*Work in Progress: The Cat Who Owns Me
Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.
is associate professor of science and mathematics at the
True Skepticism and Pychic Phenomena: One Hundred and Twenty Five Years of Scientific Research on the Paranormal (Tarcher 2007)
Pyramid Quest:
Secrets of
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders (Tarcher 2003)
Voyage of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophies & Ancient Civilizations (Harmony 1999). With Robert Aquinas McNally. “Schoch’s courage and honesty emerge on every page…it reads like a thriller.” Colin Wilson, author of From Atlantis to the Sphinx.
Brenda Peterson is the
author of four acclaimed novels, three collections of
essays, and non-ficiton. She is the editor of numerous
anthologies. Her work has appeared in The New York
Times,
I Want to be Left Behind: My Rapture Here On Earth (A Merloyd Lawrence book, 2010)
