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  • Seattle's Mayflower Park Hotel

    Series series Images of America
    The Mayflower Park Hotel started life as the Bergonian Hotel on July 16, 1927. One of Seattle�s first uptown hotels, it was designed by architect B. Dudley Stuart and built by Stephen Berg at a cost of $750,000. In the midst of the Great Depression, the hotel was sold and renamed Hotel Mayflower. In 1948, Washington State legalized cocktail lounges, and the Hotel Mayflower became Seattle�s first ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lion

    Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of an Iconic Species

    by Craig Packer ...
    An authoritative, accessible, and gorgeously illustrated exploration into the lives of these remarkable animalsLions are the only social cat. They hunt together, raise cubs together, and defend territories together against neighbors and strangers. Lions also rest atop their ecological pyramid, with profound impacts on competitors and prey alike, but their future is far from assured. Craig Packer ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Lions in the Balance

    Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

    by Craig Packer ...
    From the author of the memoir Into Africa, "a fast-paced, unsentimental sequel" about the Serengeti lions and the politics of protecting them ( Discover).*If you are a morani (*warrior ), you have your spear at the ready—you could be the hero, but you will have to wait until the morning light before you can go out and prove yourself. If it is a lion, you want to be the first to spear it—and if the ... Read more

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  • Into Africa

    by Craig Packer ...
    Craig Packer takes us into Africa for a journey of fifty-two days in the fall of 1991. But this is more than a tour of magnificent animals in an exotic, faraway place. A field biologist since 1972, Packer began his work studying primates at Gombe and then the lions of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater with his wife and colleague Anne Pusey. Here, he introduces us to the real world of ... Read more

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  • The Bird Way

    A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think.“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Lion Called Christian

    The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stirring tale of a rare bond formed between humans and an animal.”—TimeTwo men. One baby lion. What could go wrong?A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought a boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Not on My Watch

    How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERAlexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A World on the Wing

    The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

    **New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the YearAn exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.**In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Walking With Gorillas

    The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet

    An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De WaalIn her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain gorillas and other wild animals. She is also the defender of people as a groundbreaking promoter of human public health and an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • LEGO Super Nature

    Includes Four Exclusive LEGO Mini Models

    by Rona Skene ...
    Discover the natural world with LEGO® bricks!Did you know there's a plant that eats insects? And a mammal that can fly? LEGO® Super Nature is packed full of fascinating facts from the natural world, all illustrated with LEGO builds.From insects, flowers, and trees to mammals, birds, and deepwater fish, LEGO Super Nature takes you on a tour of discovery through the wonders of the natural world. You ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Trouble with Lions (The)

    A Glasgow Vet in Africa

    by Jerry Haigh ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this fascinating collection of stories about working with wild animals in Africa. Conversational in tone, conservational in theme—you will be right beside Jerry, wife Jo, and a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Over in Australia

    Amazing Animals Down Under

    Illustrated by Jill Dubin ...
    Learning becomes fun with this book about the animals that are unique to Australia. In Over in Australia: Amazing Animals Down Under, amazing artwork will inspire children in classrooms and at home to appreciate environment, ecology, and the world around us!The perfect Australia children's book, Marianne Berkes makes animal habitats for kids exciting with Over in Australia*, which doubles as a fun ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus