Bernd Heinrich

  • A Year in the Maine Woods

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    Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place–a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains…. [more below]

    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: November 08 1995
    • ISBN10: 0201489392
    • Language: English
  • The Common Uncommon: A Forest Journey

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    For forty years, Bernd Heinrich has been ensconced in the woods of the northern, or boreal, forest, living in his log cabin amidst a vast sea of spruce, fir, and larch in the mountains of western Main

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    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 1324021101
    • Language: English
  • The Trees in My Forest

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    Winner of the
    New England Book Award Best
    Nonfiction Award
    and the Franklin Fairbanks
    Award of the Fairbanks Museum

    In a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd

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    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 09 1998
    • ISBN10: 0060929421
    • Language: English
  • Mind of the Raven

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    In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award – winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.Much like a sleut… [more below]

    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 434
    • Publish Date: June 13 2016
    • ISBN10: 0062164376
    • Language: English
  • The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through a Century of Biology

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    Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: June 24 2008
    • ISBN10: 006074216X
    • Language: English
  • Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime

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    An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime

    Part memoir, part scientific investigation, R

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    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: July 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 0062973282
    • Language: English
  • Summer World

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    How can cicadas survive–and thrive–at temperatures pushing 115 F? Do hummingbirds know what they’re up against before they migrate over the Gulf of Mexico? Why do some trees stop growing taller even

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 06 2010
    • ISBN10: 0060742186
    • Language: English
  • A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich

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    Some of the world’s greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in book form showing why Bernd Heinrich is so beloved for his “passio[more below]

    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 08 2018
    • ISBN10: 0544986830
    • Language: English
  • The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration

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    A captivating exploration of the homing instinct in animals, and what it means for human happiness and survival, from the celebrated naturalist and author of Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and Life E[more below]

    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 21 2015
    • ISBN10: 544484010
    • Language: English
  • Ravens in Winter

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    “One of the most interesting discoveries I’ve seen in animal sociobiology in years.” E.O. Wilson

    Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between each other during wi

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    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: October 07 2014
    • ISBN10: 1476794561
    • Language: English
  • Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

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    From one of the finest naturalists and writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle.

    How does the animal world deal with death? And what ecological and spi… [more below]

    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 04 2013
    • ISBN10: 0544002261
    • Language: English
  • Why We Run: A Natural History

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    “Each new page is] more spellbinding than the one before–this is surely one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read.”–Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs

    When Bernd He

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    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 07 2002
    • ISBN10: 0060958707
    • Language: English
  • Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

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    Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a “raven father,” as well as

    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: May 29, 2007
    • ISBN10: 0061136050
    • Language: English
  • Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

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    From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human

    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Heinrich, Bernd
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 07, 2009
    • ISBN10: 0061129070
    • Language: English
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