Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
By: L. David Mech
3.91
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our und…
Want to Read $ 14.72If you liked the memoir plot in Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal by L. David Mech , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
By: Brenda Peterson
3.99
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Brenda Peterson, one of our best nature writers, brings the full complement of science, history, an… read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Brenda Peterson's Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- wildlife
- wolves
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
2. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
By: Farley Mowat
4.21
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more
Want to Read $ 10.63Similar categories in Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- memoir
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
3. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By: Dan Flores
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- science
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
4. Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
By: Gary Ferguson , Douglas W. Smith
3.31
Format: 267 pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gary Ferguson's Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- wildlife
- history
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog
By: Lauren Fern Watt
4.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The playful, epic adventure of a 160-pound English Mastiff and the twentysomething girl who grew up… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lauren Fern Watt's Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- animals
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- science
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
7. In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone
By: Rick Lamplugh
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
More than 80 5-STAR reviews on Amazon. When Rick Lamplugh arrives at the historic Lamar Buffalo Ran… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rick Lamplugh's In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- science
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
8. The Man Who Lives with Wolves
By: Penny Junor , Shaun Ellis
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf p… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Penny Junor's The Man Who Lives with Wolves book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- memoir
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
9. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- science
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
10. Woodsong
By: Gary Paulsen
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
A LIFE AS EXCITING AS FICTION Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adve… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gary Paulsen's Woodsong book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
11. Wild Wolves We Have Known
By: None , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The International Wolf Center has assembled in this book true stories from over 30 wolf biologists … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Wild Wolves We Have Known book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
12. The Hidden Life of Wolves
By: Jim Dutcher , Jamie Dutcher , Robert Redford , James Manfull
3.50
Format: 295 pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jim Dutcher's The Hidden Life of Wolves book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
13. Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
By: Gary Paulsen
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Guess what -- Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In "Guts", Gary tells the real stories behind t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gary Paulsen's Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
14. The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son
By: Rupert Isaacson
3.33
Format: 153 pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
15. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Dan Egan's The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
16. The Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- history
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf
17. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
Want to Read $ 13.49Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- history
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
18. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
19. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
20. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- memoir
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
21. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog
By: Rick McIntyre
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more
Want to Read $ 13.49Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- wildlife
- history
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
22. Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
By: L. David Mech
3.91
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our und… read more
Want to Read $ 14.72Similar categories in L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- wildlife
- history
- memoir
- wolves
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
23. The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack
By: Rick McIntyre
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Male and female wolves have the unique ability to form long-lasting, deeply emotional bonds. This i… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- wildlife
- history
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"I imagined him then walking the few feet to the hilltop, where he had bedded down so many times next his life partner, and lying down to rest. As he slowly drifted off to sleep, I would like to think…"-Rick McIntyre, The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack
24. The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male
By: Rick McIntyre
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned wolf observer and author of The Rise of Wolf 8 and The Reign of Wolf 21 comes a s… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- wildlife
- history
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
25. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
By: Erica Berry
3.55
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-lon… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Erica Berry's Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of t…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
"With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for i…"-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
26. Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
By: Jim Dutcher
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspira… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Jim Dutcher's Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- wildlife
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
27. Sanctuary: The True Story of an Irish Village, a Man Who Lost His Way, and the Rescue Donkeys That Led Him Home
By: Patrick Barrett
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, his family rescued lost and forgotten donkeys in the Irish countryside. He had no idea… read more
Want to Read $ 10.92Similar categories in Patrick Barrett's Sanctuary: The True Story of an Irish Village, a Man Who Lost His Way, and the Rescue Donkeys That Led Him Home book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- history
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06
By: Rick McIntyre
4.52
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Following five generations of female wolves - including the famous Oh-Six - this gripping family sa… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06 book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- audiobook
- wildlife
- history
- wolves
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
29. On the Trail of Wolves
By: Philippa Forrester
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Wolves fascinate us – they always have and always will – and with her new non-fiction narrative, au… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Philippa Forrester's On the Trail of Wolves book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- nonfiction
30. Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park
By: Douglas W. Smith
4.48
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A tome featuring the perspective of 70 different ecology experts. It is unprecedented and offers th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Douglas W. Smith's Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park book and L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal
- wolves
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
