According to the Blackfoot creation myth, the spirits first rolled moist earth in their hands and threw the magic symbol to the ground to make men and women. “Next they made ...

"The story of American bison and their hunters from prehistoric times to the present"--Jacket subtitle.

“The most promising debut by a nature writer in years . . . a hymn to a complicated, long-standing human-animal relationship.”—San Francisco Chronicle A hunt for the American ...

Nomads of the great plains, the ways of family and clan, a bounty from the wild beast, the timeless cycle of ceremony.

"At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large ...

Recounts the author's five year study of giant pandas and the problems facing those who are trying to save the species from extinction.

Expelled from Botswana for writing Cry of the Kalahari, the Owenses set off across Africa. They settled in Zambia, where they soon found their peace shattered by the gunfire of ...