Saving Sun Bears: One man's quest to save a species, Paperback - Sarah R. Pye

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Story of a quest to save the world's wild salmon population, following the author's cousin Guido Rahr's efforts across science, conservation and re...

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The Bookseller of Kabul meets The Zookeeper's Wife: an award-winning journalist puts a human face on life under ISIS, told through the prism of the...

The remarkable story of Grant Fowlds, a conservationist who has dedicated his life to saving the last rhinos, vividly told with the help of Graham ...

Reducere. Dishwasher is the true story of a man on a mission: to clean dirty dishes professionally in every state in America. Part adventure, part parody, an...

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A true story of one man's journey to understand and embrace God's role in his life. He does much of this on his mountain bike. The author keeps a j...

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to re...

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing CoAuthor(s): Derek GowIllustration(s): Black-and-white illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 208Publication ...

Hugely popular subject, written by an award-winning comedian. Based on author's successful stage show. Author very well-known and well-connected wi...

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Reducere. In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist ...

Reducere. What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between th...

Reducere. Will Sam purge his guilty conscience before it's too late? Will he atone for his offenses and find solace in the final countdown? Sam Fox spent his...

A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinction Most ...

Reducere. Skylar Maroni's parents said inheriting great-grandpa's house, and leaving Chicago to live in the countryside, would be a life-changing event. Sky ...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): J. A. MillsNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 154 x 229 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. A charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession, A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees, a man who unearths his childhood French horn,...

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DescriptionONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A "warm and funny and honest...genuinely unputdownable" (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it's...

When her daughter desperately needed a lung transplant to survive, Janet Murnaghan rallied against the outdated restrictions in healthcare that wou...

Reducere. Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly i...

An account of one man's painful journey from slob to superman, and a fascinating and eye-opening examination of what it really means to be healthy....

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Charles.G. FournelIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 174Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233...

An award winning thriller about one man's quest to discover why fire fighters are dying of cancer. In a cryptic message he orchestrated before his ...

Reducere. Join the Dragon Protector on her quest to find the rarest dragon in the world With dragon numbers in rapid decline, time is running out to ensure t...

DescriptionAs a young scientist, Birute Mary Galdikas had a mission: To find and study the elusive orangutans of Borneo's rain forest to help prote...

Reducere. For fifteen years Bud Isaacs has been blowing the whistle on an abused stretch of the West's most iconic river. In telling the tale of this oilman'...

Explore the fascinating life and legacy of groundbreaking primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey, who made it her life's mission to study an...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Denise GeorgeIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimens...

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Reducere. A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and inspires a fundamental ...

One man. Ten extraordinary quests. Bestselling author and human guinea pig A. J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and...

Kloppite: One Man's Quest to Turn Doubters into Believers follows the story of Jurgen Klopp and his first two seasons at the helm of Liverpool Foot...

Reducere. Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his...