The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal (Scientists in the Field (Paperback)) by Sy Montgomery Book cover type:Paperback -- Hunter Scanlan

-- Hunter Scanlan

It is a book about what it is to be human

and you just might be inspired to plan your next National Parks trip

The Two Fabii and How Pyrrhus Fought against Rome

07" H x 11

The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal (Scientists in the Field (Paperback)) by Sy Montgomery Book cover type:Paperback -- Hunter ScanlanIf you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil's vast Pantanal ("the Everglades on steroids") haven't seen the elusive snorkel snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Aspiring scientists will love the immediate, often humorous "you are