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Natural History, Oct, 2002
Some of the fall's best reads involve quests. Japanese explorer Daisuke Takahashi has written In Search of Robinson Crusoe (Cooper Square Press), about his seven-year journey looking for traces of Daniel Defoe's real-life inspiration, Alexander Selkirk. In Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species (Simon & Schuster), naturalist Sy Montgomery recounts her travels through Southeast Asia with evolutionary biologist Gary Galbreath and others. Andromeda Romano-Lax, sailing in a twenty-four-foot boat with her husband and two children, observes the dazzling array of natural life in Searching for Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez: A Makeshift Expedition Along Baja's Desert Coast (Sasquatch Books). Journalist Tony Horwitz, in Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Henry Holt), signs on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's first vessel, retracing the routes of the great navigator who "helped to make the world one." Finally, John Frederick Walker journeys to war-torn Angola to find a living giant sable antelope specimen and recounts some dramatic history in A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola (Atlantic Monthly Press).
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In Pacific High: Adventures in the Coast Ranges From Baja to Alaska (Island Press), naturalist Tim Palmer investigates how the estimated 36 million people who inhabit this vast region have affected its environmental health. Journalists Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle describe diverse peoples and elemental forces of sand, wind, and weather in Sahara: A Natural History (Walker Publishing). Anthropologist Ben Orlove travels to the world's highest lake, which lies between Peru and Bolivia, in Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca (University of California Press). In The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia (Walker Publishing), journalist Anna Reid visits indigenous people of nine nationalities and finds their identities strengthened since the collapse of Communism. Closer to home, the American Southwest is what inspires both Craig Childs, in Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in a Rugged Land (Sasquatch Books), and Ellen Meloy, in The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit (Pantheon Books).
Outstanding reference books include the National Audubon Society's Guide to Marine Mammals of the World (Alfred A. Knopf), illustrated by Pieter Folkens; the Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (Academic Press), edited by William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen; and the Encyclopedia of Evolution (Oxford University Press).
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