Posts Tagged ‘Bernd Heinrich’

A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich by Bernd Heinrich From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays […]

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives by Bernd Heinrich From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: In his modern classics One Man’s Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl. In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to […]

The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related […]