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A naturalist at large : the best essays of Bernd Heinrich / Bernd Heinrich.

by Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Heinrich, Bernd, 1940- Essays. Selections.

Natural history.

9780544986831 (hc.)

xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

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.

"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: once again 'passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science.'(New York Times)"--From publisher.

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