A naturalist at large : the best essays of Bernd Heinrich /
From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants and more.
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Life in the soil
- Rock-solid foundation
- The spreading chestnut tree
- When the bough bends
- O tannenbaum
- Reading tree leaves
- Hot- and cold-blooded moths
- Woolly and wondrous
- Winter guests
- Arctic bumble bees
- Beating the heat, and killing with heat
- Bee-lining vs. bee homing
- Beetles and blooms
- Cooperative undertaking
- Whirligig beetles
- Ravens on my mind
- A birdbrain nevermore
- Ravens and the inaccessible
- Phoebe diary
- Conversation with a sapsucker
- Hawk watching
- Kinglets' realm of cold
- The diabolical nightjar
- Nutcracker sweets
- Hibernation, insulation and caffeination
- Cohabiting with elephants
- The hunt
- Endurance predator
- Synchronicity
- What bees and flowers know
- Curious yellow
- Twists and turns
- Birds coloring their eggs
- Birds, bees, and beauty
- Seeing the light in the forest
- Optimism.