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WINNERS OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR
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Reviews
of the Winners of the
Natural History Literature Category
The most important book award
program in the outdoor field is the National
Outdoor Book Awards. Past winners of the Natural History Literature Category are listed
below:
Winner. Condor: To the
Brink and Back.
By John Nielsen. HarperCollins
Publishers, New York. ISBN 9780060088620
This book is a fascinating behind-the-scenes
look at the
efforts to save the condor, North America's
largest
flying land bird. Condor
is a story waiting to be told, and there could have been no
better person for the job than John Nielsen. Nielsen
has penned a natural history book that is fun to read, mixing
humor, science and human interest in just the right portions. In short, it's a brilliant telling of a
compelling environmental saga.
 Winner. Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion. By Alan Burdick. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
New York.
ISBN 0374219737
Combining exhaustive research and an engaging and lyrical
writing style, author Alan Burdick explores the ecological minefield of exotic,
non-native species. We zig and zag
through that minefield from Hawaii
to Guam to San Francisco
to Alaska, following the work of
scientists in the new field of invasion biology. What we learn in the end is unsettling:
nature herself may pose the greatest threat to the future of our planet.
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