Book Reviews

  1. Lawrence W. Swan 2000. Tales of the Himalaya: Adventures of a Naturalist. La Crescenta, California: Mountain N Air 232 pp. [PDF]
  2. R.C.H. Sweeney 1965. The Scurrying Bush. New York: Random House 208 pp. [East Africa] [PDF]
  3. W.H. Hudson 1892 (1988). The Naturalist in La Plata.  New York: Dover 394 pp. [Argentina] [PDF]
  4. Brent Wilson 2005. Living on an Arc.  St Augustine: Publ. by author 310 pp. [Nevis, West Indies] [PDF]
  5. Tim Flannery 1998. Throwim Way Leg.  Melbourne: Text 326 pp. [New Guinea] [PDF]
  6. Mikhail Prishvin 1951. The Lake and the Woods.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 258 pp. [Russia] [PDF]
  7. Mary E. Gillham 1966. A Naturalist in New Zealand.  London: Museum Press  285 pp. [PDF]
  8. Percy R. Lowe 1911. A Naturalist on Desert Islands. London: Witherby 230 pp. [West Indies] [PDF]
  9. Barry P. Moore 1978. Life on Forty Acres.  Faringdon: E. Classey 184 pp. [Australia] [PDF]
  10. John Graham Kerr 1950. A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 234 pp.  [Paraguay] [PDF]
  11. Alexander F. Skutch 1971. A Naturalist in Costa Rica.  Gainesville: Univ. Florida Press 378 pp. [PDF]
  12. Charles J. Cornish 1902. The Naturalist on the Thames.  London: Seeley 260 pp. [England] [PDF]
  13. William Beebe’s Guyana books: [PDF]
    • 1918. Jungle Peace. New York: Henry Holt 297 pp.
    • 1921. Edge of the Jungle. Garden City, NY: Garden City 303pp.
    • 1925. Jungle Days. New York: G.P. Putnam 201pp.
  14. Robert A. Hedeen 1982. Naturalist on the Nanticoke. Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater 170 pp. [Chesapeake Bay, USA] [PDF]
  15. George Gaylord Simpson 1934. Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal.  New York: Macmillan  295 pp.  [Argentina] [PDF]
  16. Archie F. Carr 1994. A Naturalist in Florida.  New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 264 pp. [PDF]
  17. Richard Ffrench 2007. A Naturalist’s Year.  Port of Spain: Prospect 173 pp. [Trinidad, West Indies] [PDF]
  18. John Muir 1915.Travels in Alaska. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 326 pp. [PDF]
  19. F. Fraser Darling. 1939. A Naturalist on Rona.  Oxford: Clarendon 137 pp. [Scotland] [PDF]
  20. Ernest Henry Wilson 1913. A Naturalist in Western China. Vol. 1. New York: Doubleday 251 pp. [PDF]
  21. Victor Howells 1957. A Naturalist in Palestine.  New York: Philosophical Library 180 pp. [PDF]
  22. Alfred Alcock 1902. A Naturalist in Indian Seas.  London: John Murray 328 pp. [PDF]
  23. Frank Kingdon Ward 1913.The Land of the Blue Poppy. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 283 pp. [Himalayas] [PDF]
  24. Jim Conrad 1991. On the Road to Tetlama. New York: Walker 196 pp. [Mexico] [PDF]
  25. Gary Paul Nabhan1993. Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves. New York: Penguin 887 pp. [Italy] [PDF]
  26. Gilbert C. Klingel1940. Inagua. New York: Dodd 385 pp. [Bahamas] [PDF]
  27. Ken Lamberton2000. Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist’s Observations from Prison. San Francisco: Mercury House  218 pp. [Arizona, USA] [PDF]
  28. Gilbert White1789. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. London: Benjamin White 468 pp. [England] [PDF]
  29. Mary Taylor Young2002. Land of Grass and Sky.  Englewood, Colorado: Earth Tales 160 pp. [prairie states, USA] [PDF]
  30. Henry Walter Bates1864. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. 2nd ed. London: John Murray 394 pp. [PDF]
  31. Alfred Russel Wallace1869. The Malay Archipelago Vol. 1-2. London: Macmillan 638 pp. [PDF]
  32. Thomas Barbour1945. A Naturalist in Cuba.  Boston: Little Brown 317 pp. [PDF]
  33. Joanna Burger. 1996. A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore.New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press 304 pp. [PDF]
  34. Thomas Belt 1874. The Naturalist in Nicaragua. London: John Murray 403 pp. [PDF]
  35. Howard Ensign Evans 1963. Wasp Farm.Garden City, NY: Natural History Press 178 pp. [New York state, USA] [PDF]
  36. Theodore H. Fleming 2003. A Bat Man in the Tropics.Berkeley: Univ. California Press 311 pp. [Central America] [PDF]
  37. Adolph Murie 1961.A Naturalist in Alaska.New York: Devin-Adair 302 pp. [PDF]
  38. C. Brooke Worth 1967.A Naturalist in Trinidad.Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 297 pp. [PDF]
  39. Henry David Thoreau 1854. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Tickner & Fields 357 pp. [Massachusetts, USA] [PDF]
    • Edward Abbey 1968.  Desert Solitaire.  New York: McGraw-Hill  269 pp.; [Utah, USA]
  40. Allen M. Young 1991. Sarapiquí Chronicle.  Washington: Smithsonian Inst. Press 301 pp. [Costa Rica] [PDF]
  41. John Alcock on the Sonoran Desert  [Arizona, USA][PDF]
    • John Alcock 1985.  Sonoran Desert Spring.  Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press 194 pp.;
    • John Alcock 1990.  Sonoran Desert Summer.  Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press 187 pp.;
    • John Alcock 2009.  When the Rains Come: A Naturalist’s Year in the Sonoran Desert.  Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press 334 pp.
  42. Philip Henry Gosse 1851. A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica.  London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 508 pp. [PDF]
  43. Philip Henry Gosse 1853. A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonsire Coast.  London: J. Van Voorst  451 pp. [PDF]
    • Philip Henry Gosse 1865.  A Year at the Shore.  London: A. Strahan 327 pp. [England] [PDF]
  44. Raymond B. Cowles 1959. Zulu Journal.  Berkeley: Univ. California Press 267 pp. [South Africa] [PDF]
  45. S. Theodore Baskaran 1999. The Dance of the Sarus. New Delhi: Oxford Unv. Press 240 pp. [India] [PDF]
  46. Frederick A. Ober 1880. Camps in the Caribbees. Boston: Lee & Shephard 360 pp. [Lesser Antilles] [PDF]
  47. Eleanor Mathews 2003. Ambassador to the Penguins. Boston: David R. Godine 353 pp. [Sub-Antartic islands] [PDF]
  48. F.W. Burbidge 1880. The Gardens of the Sun. London: John Murrah 364 pp. [Borneo] [PDF]
  49. Odoardo Beccari 1904. Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo. London: Archibald Constable 424 pp. [PDF]
  50. Charles Hose 1929. The Field-Book of a Jungle Wallah. London: H.F. & G. Witherby 216 pp.
    • Robert W. Shelford 1916.  A Naturalist in Borneo. London: T. Fisher Unwin 331 pp. [PDF]
  51. Chris Ferris 1986. The Darkness is Light Enough: The Field Journal of a Night Naturalist. London: M. Joseph 373 pages. [England]
    • Chris Ferris 1988.  Out of the Darkness. London: Unwin Hyman 251 pp. [England] [PDF]
  52. Review of: [PDF]
    • Gerald Durrell 1954. The Bafut Beagles. London: Rupert Hart-Davis 231 pp.
    • Gerald Durrell 1954. Three Singles to Adventure. London: Rupert Hart-Davis 219 pp.
    • Gerald Durrell 1961. The Whispering Land. London: Rupert Hart-Davis 235 pp.
  53. Théodore Monod & Marc de Gouvenain 1996. Majâbat al-Koubrâ. Paris: Actes Sud 233 pp. [PDF]
  54. William Bartram 1791. Travels Through North and South Carolina, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, etc. Philadelphia: James & Johnson 520 pp. [PDF]
  55. Review of: [PDF]
    • Steven D. Garber 1987. The Urban Naturalist. New York: Wiley 242 pp.
    • Eugene Kinkead 1978. Wildness is All Around Us: Notes of an Urban Naturalist. New York: Dutton 178 pp.
    • David Wicinas 1995. Sagebrush and Cappuccino: Confessions of an LA Naturalist. San Francisco: Sierra Club 218 pp.
    • Wayne Grady 1995. Toronto the Wild: Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist. Toronto: Macfarlane, Watler & Ross 274 pp.