A biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us—and always will. We evolved in a wilderness

In the name of progress and clean living, we scrub much of nature off our bodies and try to remove whole kinds of life—parasites, bacteria, mutualists, and pr

Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing woman who pens popular women's adventure stories on the Northwest frontier in the

" ... traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space"--