“The best survival book in a decade” (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and began a desperate dash through crashing waves as they sought the safety of port. Fourteen months later, on January 30, 2014, Alvarenga, now a hairy, wild-bearded and half-mad castaway, washed ashore on a nearly deserted island on the far side of the Pacific. He could barely speak and was unable to walk. He claimed to have drifted from Mexico, a journey of some seven thousand miles. 438 Days is the first-ever account of one of the most amazing survival stories in modern times. Based on dozens of hours of exclusive interviews with Alvarenga, his colleagues, search-and-rescue officials, the remote islanders who found him, and the medical team that saved his life, 438 Days is an unforgettable study of the resilience, will, ingenuity and determination required for one man to survive more than a year lost and adrift at sea.

A young goat sees a snail on a log, a puppy nibbling on a stick, a bird pulling up a worm, two butterflies flying, and a ladybug and a lizard

Product Description: Remarkable natural history artworks by women artists from the last three centuries Celebrating the work and lives of women artists spanning the last three centuries, this stunning collection showcases a selection of exquisite artworks from the unrivaled collections held in the Library of the Natural History Museum...read more

Product Description: Organized into majory thematic sections, a remarkable array of full-color photographs offers a close-up portrait of Planet Earth--its history, oceans, geology, flora and fauna, and emperiled climate--documenting its great natural wonders, diverse habitats, and the forces that shape the planet, in a volume that includes trivia, informational sidebars, Top Ten lists, and more...read more

Ever since 1907, when a flickering film about birds enthralled a cinema audience, we've been fascinated by watching the natural world on film. Accompanying the BBC two-hour special, this work dives into the archives to find the 100 wildlife moments that best celebrate the glories and the eccentricities of this popular and enduring culture.

Depicting the biodiversity that surrounds us all, this picture book of planet earth covers information ranging from crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast geological formations, jungles to flowers, and monkeys to human embryos.

Product Description: The Nature Of Wildlife is the first of a series of books that accurately portrays the natural beauty of wildlife, its behavior and its environment. Freelance wildlife photographer Doug Gardner has spent more than a decade capturing the natural world on film and sharing it with others...read more

A companion volume to the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet campaign describes in text and glorious full-color photographs the group's efforts to preserve 232 rich and imperiled ecoregions that are essential to preserving the health of the planet. 35,000 first printing.

Spans all seven continents and visits remote regions to explore areas largely untamed by humankind

Product Description: Excitement captured by a celebrated photographer leaps from the pages of a book alive with nature's thrilling forces and magnificent creatures. Unique new long-exposure techniques from the camera of a great artist show readers the ebb and flow of tides, the force of winds and snow, the gush of lava, and the incredible movement of wildlife -- such stunning events as spawning salmon, thundering impala, birds in flight -- frozen into single impressionistic images...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Applies concept photography to a classic childhood game, implementing images of animals, vegetables, and minerals into a series of spreads that encourages children to develop identification skills

A look at the natural wonder, spectacular wildlife, and unique beauty of hidden pockets of wilderness throughout the world includes maps of Borneo, South Georgia (Antarctica), Hawaii, Madagascar, Okavango, and other places.

Photographs and text depict eleven of the world's most remote and unspoiled locations, including the Antarctic peninsula, Africa's Mountains of the Moon and Skeleton Coast, and Siberia's Lake Baikal

Product Description: In this stimulating, thought-provoking guide, a noted sculptor and teacher demonstrates how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Through systematic study of such properties as line, form, shape, mass, pattern, light and dark, space, proportion, scale, perspective, and color as they appear in nature, students can learn to utilize the infinite variety and diversity of those elements as a wellspring of creative abstraction...read more

Photographs and forty short essays explore flora and fauna by taking a close look at their small details, including a swan's feather and the gills of an anamita mushroom (view table of contents)

Shows unusual insects, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals in Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica

A master photographer employs the latest photographic equipment and technique to record, in one hundred color plates, the mysteries of plant and insect life