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Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant by Lyall Watson
Category: Children's
As a child in South Africa, spending summers exploring the wild with his boyhood friends, Lyall Watson came face to face with his first elephant. This "entertaining and enchanting" work (Washington Post Book World) chronicles how Watson's fascination grew into a lifelong quest to understand the nature a ...Show more
Gifts of Unknown Things by Lyall Watson
Category: Science
Discover the extraordinary island of Nus Tarian, in Indonesia, where everyday reality contains terrifying, inexplicable, and miraculous phenomena. Magical feats, extrasensory perception, and psychic healing are commonplace in this land where the natural and the supernatural coexist and challenge our bel ...Show more
Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson
Category: Science
Heaven's Breath, the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circula ...Show more
Jacobson's Organ - And the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
Category: Science
In this entertaining book, a naturalist rescues the underappreciated sense of smell from obscurity and brings to light new evidence that Jacobson's Organ--two tiny pits inside the nostril--is the peromonal mechanism that triggers the areas of the brain affecting awareness, emotion, and sexual behavior. ...Show more
Lightning Bird - The Story of One Man's Journey into Africa's Past by Lyall Watson
Category: Fiction
The Nature of Things : The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects by Lyall Watson
Category: Science
Watson explores the subtle forces of memory fields and suggests that matter has the capacity to absorb emotional "fingerprints," the mental fossils that channel echoes from the past. He demonstrates the complexity of inanimate life and offers possible proof of our sensitivity to its minute, natural patt ...Show more
The Whole Hog : Exploring the extraordinary potential of pigs by Lyall Watson
Category: Science & Natural History
George Orwell was right. Pigs are unquestionably the farmyard animal most likely to succeed. But why, exactly? Science has been slow to pin down their superiority. Pigs are dramatically different to their closest and more placid relatives, sheep, deer and cattle. During forty million years of evolutio ...Show more
The Whole Hog : Exploring the extraordinary potential of pigs by Lyall Watson
Category: Science & Natural History
The Whole Hog is just that, an attempt to encompass everything that is known about all the pigs of the world.George Orwell was right. Pigs are unquestionably the farmyard animals most likely to succeed. But why, exactly? Science has been slow to pin down the source of their superiority.Pigs are dramatic ...Show more
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