Light at the Edge of the World

For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. .

For Love of Mother-Not - Alan Dean Foster

SUMMARY: He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual Talents.

Before the settlers moved into the far west; before the ranchers and farmers, the towns and the railroads; came the men of the trail, the wilderness men who brushed sleeves with death a dozen times a day and tamed the western woods! Their tragedy was that in opening the land to the settlers, they destroyed the life they loved best; the solitary grandeur of the rugged forests ! This is the true story of the foremost of all these giants of our past history.

The French and Indian War was over. The great battle for possession of North America had been won by England, but the French flag still floated over many Western outposts. It remained for the English to take possession of these posts. This was not an easy task or a safe one. Their way lay through trackless forests filled with hostile Indians.

Here is the riveting tale of Gerald Durrell's adventures and misadventures in the enchanted forests of Madagascar, in search of the elusive Aye-aye. Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-aye, the beast with the magic finger, still lurks, though in fast dwindling numbers, in the forests of Madagascar. Durrell's mission to help save this strange creature turns into a madcap journey in which you will meet not only the enigmatic Aye-aye, but the catlike Fosa, the Flat-tailed tortoise, the Gentle lemurs of Lac Alaotra, and the Malagasy chameleons, among others.