What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs by Russell, Sharman Apt

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231215985)

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What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs by Russell, Sharman Apt

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

$100.00
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs by Russell, Sharman Apt

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

The nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife--mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice--near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. With wit and compassion, she guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks left by browsing deer, predatory weasels, and inquisitive bears, skunks, and raccoons. Closely observing these traces, Russell also finds community, a sense of place, and a renewed connection with the nonhuman world. She explores the health of mammal populations in North America and questions common wildlife-management practices, calling for new approaches that better reflect current understandings of ecology. Above all, What Walks This Way is a celebration of all the wild animals secretly, stubbornly, and triumphantly roving through our cities, suburbs, and countryside.

Author: Sharman Apt Russell
ISBN-10: 0231215983
ISBN-13: 9780231215985
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Sharman Apt Russell
By Sharman Apt Russell
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Sharman Apt Russell teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles and is a professor emeritus at Western New Mexico University. She is the author of a dozen books and winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing.

Kim A. Cabrera is a master tracker and well-known wildlife tracking educator.

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