Best of
Nature

1963

Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves


Farley Mowat - 1963
    Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone—studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man)—is today celebrated as a classic of nature writing, at once a tale of remarkable adventures and indelible record of myths and magic of wolves.

Runes of the North


Sigurd F. Olson - 1963
    Olson explores the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him, weaving the tales and myths with his own stories and experiences as an explorer, writer, grandfather, and biologist. Now available in paperback for the first time, Runes of the North is a mystical and reflective guide to the northern wilderness written with a oneness and communion with nature that is unique to Olson's pen. It is a work filled with beauty, wisdom, and renewal.

The Living Sea


Jacques-Yves Cousteau - 1963
    They roam afar to investigate other wrecks, from one sunk in the Bronze Age to a freighter which went down before their eyes. Captain Cousteau goes down to the bottom of the sea in the bathyscaph and starts an undersea avalanche which engulfs the vessel. He drinks wine that has lain on the sea bottom for two thousand years; he is entrapped at night by twenty-five-foot seaweeds in the Gibraltar current. In THE LIVING SEA you'll meet creatures never before seen or classified: abyssal sharks with shovel snouts and white protruding eyes; a sliver fish shaped like a triangle; a fish whose skin is marked off into perfect checkerboard squares. you will encounter "the Truckfish", an animal unaccountably grown to fifty times the normal weight of its species, and Ulysses, the giant grouper which became the divers' pet.

Tree Finder: A Manual for the Identification of Trees by Their Leaves


May Theilgaard Watts - 1963
    They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region.

A Donkey in the Meadow


Derek Tangye - 1963
    

Nature Word


R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz - 1963
    The second part of the book consists of philosophical reflections on the first and proposes the practice of imagination as a way of evolutionary development. Many traditions have spoken of a "higher consciousness," but Schwaller de Lubicz's attempt to formulate in modern terms an alchemical science of qualities, functions, analogies and signatures is unique.

Drake at the door


Derek Tangye - 1963
    

Humpy the Moose


Harry Baerg - 1963
    When little Humpy the Moose comes into the world, he is amazed with all there is to learn. Each day brings a new lesson, and before long he must learn how to make it on his own. Children will delight in the story of how Humpy the Moose transforms from a scared little animal to the master of all he can see! Harry J. Baerg authored 16 books and illustrated more than 100, most of them about nature.

Walter Chandoha's Book of Kittens and Cats


Walter Chandoha - 1963
    

Face of North America: The Natural History of a Continent


Peter Farb - 1963
    

The Beginning And The End, And Other Poems


Robinson Jeffers - 1963
    

Kpo the Leopard


René Guillot - 1963