Last month my 85-year-old, 4-foot-10-inch mother reported by email that, using a garden trowel, she had killed a snake she saw slithering in the backyard of her San Antonio home. “I just cut it in ...

"Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W.