Field Guide to the Grizzly Bear  •  Lance Olsen FIELD GUIDE •  1992 •  PAPER  • 48 PAGES • COMING IN A brief introduction to the ecology, natural history and conservation of the grizzly sponsored by the Great Bear Foundation. (BST38, $6.95)
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide  •  Peter Harrison FIELD GUIDE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 317 PAGES • COMING IN A field edition of Harrison's definitive seabird identification guide, featuring 740 color photographs. It illustrates all the world's seabirds, many in a variety of plumages. The book also contains a convenient key to identifying the confusing albatrosses, petrels and other tubenoses, as well as range maps and information about habitats and distribution. This is the book that you'd carry on any sea voyage; our ten-year-old edition has been everywhere. (FG16, $29.95)
Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880  •  Libby Beaman  •  Betty John BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1998 •  PAPER  • 206 PAGES • COMING IN The engrossing memoir of an American woman who accompanied her husband to Alaska's Pribilof Islands in 1879, just after American acquisition of the region. Libby was the first non-native woman to live on St. Paul, which lies just south of the Arctic Circle in the Bering Sea. As edited by Libby's granddaughter, the book is a plainly told and wonderfully evocative tale of a pioneering life in remote Alaska -- with much attention paid to the natural history of the Pribilof Islands. From her storm-bound arrival at St. Paul to her reception by the local population to her near-death of cold and malnutrition, it's a great story. (ARC07, $16.95)