Crest Videos' Bookstore - Nature & Wildlife

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Elephants, Gorillas, Lions, and More, Wolves, Whales & Dolphins, Rain Forest

Elephants

The African Elephant: Twilight in Eden (National Audubon Society) by Roger L. Disilvestro (Editor)
An uplifting, lavishly-illustrated account of our relationship with the African elephant and the struggle to save it from extinction. The book combines lucid, stirring prose with 130 color photographs of elephants, their habitat, and the creatures that share it with them.

Elephants: The Deciding Decade by Ronald Orenstein (Editor)
This book, featuring text by some of the world's leading authorities of the African elephant and more than 100 color pictures, is a celebration of a magnificent animal, a warning of its possible destruction and a plea for its preservation.

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer
The simply astonishing, exhilarating story--complete with high adventure, betrayal, and resurrection--of Modoc, elephant extraordinaire, told by Helfer.

Gorillas

Koko's Kitten by Francine, Dr. Patterson, Ronald H. Cohn
Koko is the gorilla featured in the National Geographic video shown above. She's able to communicate by sign language. This book is the story of Koko's friendship with a kitten. "Patterson and Cohn let readers see...the gentle mind that wanted something to love and be loved by." -School Library Journal, starred review. Full-color photos.

Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Fossey's book remains an enthralling testament to one of the longest field studies of primates, covering fifteen years in the lives of four gorilla families in Central Africa.

Light Shining Through the Mist: Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas by Fossey, Tom Mathews, George Schaller
(August 1998)

Lions

In the Lion's Den by Mitsuaki Iwago
The most exciting photographic portrait of lions ever assembled, with nearly 100 breathtaking photographs of the day-to-day lives of these magnificent wild felines of East Africa's fabled Serengeti plain.

Hunting With the Moon: The Lions of Savuti by Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert (Photographer)
Two Emmy Award winning naturalists and cinematographers who have lived among the lions of Botswana for thirteen years present a book of astonishing photographs and text about the wild cat's nocturnal world.

...and More African Animals!

Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall
Goodall paints a vivid portrait of our closest relatives in one of the best books about animal behavior ever written.

Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes by Lynn Sherr
"I hope when you read it that you, too, will fall in love! Anyway, I challenge you to look at a giraffe and not smile. They are magical." -The author, Lynn Sherr

Horn of Darkness: Rhinos on the Edge by Carol Cunningham, Joel Berger
This vividly written account, by a husband-and-wife scientific team, of living out in the wilds of Africa studying the black rhino, reveals that Namibia's de-horning program isn't working.

The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals by Richard D. Estes, Daniel Otte (Illustrator), Kathryn Fuller
The guide allows even a novice wildlife observer to understand the behavior of nearly one hundred large mammals from antelopes, hippos and elephants, to lions, monkeys and gorillas. 100 illustrations.

Wolves

The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
This authoritive and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out of its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity.

Brother Wolf: A Forgotten Promise by James Brandenburg
Award-winning photographer Jim Brandenburg's powerful narrative--and 140 color photos of timber wolves in their natural habitat--will revolutionize our thinking about wolves, human nature, our primeval past, and the survival of our planet.

Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
"The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you." So Barry Lopez writes in his first major work of nonfiction, a careful study of the way that wolves and humans have interacted over the centuries.

Whales & Dolphins

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Eyewitness Handbooks) by Mark Carwardine, Martin Camm (Illustrator)
The book's description of 79 species is based on the author's and illustrator's own observations and the works of many other specialists. For the casual whale watcher or earnest conservation buff, here is an invaluable guide.

Rain Forest

Tropical Nature by Adrian Forsyth
"A definite for any laypersons interested in the rainforest of the americas." - Customer Comments

One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
The amazing story of Richard Schultes, a real life Indiana Jones who took leave of absence from Harvard University in the early 1940's and disappeared into the Amazon basin for a dozen years.

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide by Louise H. Emmons, Francois Feer
A guide to the diverse fauna of Central and South America.
195 maps present distribution and geographic range of each species. Color plates illustrate more than 220 species.

A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics by John Kricher, Mark Plotkin
"An intense and lively field guide ...compact and richly substantive." -Scientific American

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