What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs - Hardcover
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What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs - Hardcover
$180.00
by Sharman Apt Russell (Author)
Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Award in the category of Nature / Environment / Animals / Pets
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 Biography
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.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 10, 2024
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