Free Online Books by Naturalist Jim Conrad

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Natchez Naturalist Newsletter (the book)
Excerpts from Jim's weekly newsletter issued during his years as a hermit in the woods near Natchez, Mississippi. There are stories about plants and animals, and Jim's thoughts about it all. Except for the text-only edition, has drawings and a photo of the hermit camp.

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Tapdancing with Sandpipers; and other notes from Naturalist Jim Conrad's times in Mexico
Lots of stories about backcountry folks, their beliefs, what they said and did, and just the way Jim felt being in Mexico with Mexicans.

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101 Yucatan Trees & Shrubs
Fully illustrated, with plant names on the index pages hot-linked to their descriptions. Book units variously focusing on ornamentals, fruit trees, wild trees, and rare & unusual ones.

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Walks with Red Dog
A book for young people, about the days when Jim walked with his red dog on the gravel road running by his house in rural western Kentucky. Color drawings except in text-only format.

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Mistletoe: One Year in The Life of An Eastern Gray Squirrel
This book's twelve short chapters -- one for each month and each with a drawing -- describe real squirrel behavior. There are no talking animals here. Still, Mistletoe manages to have an adventerous year.

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Yellow Ribbon: One Year in The Life of A House Sparrow
This book's twelve chapters -- one for each month and each with a drawing, except for the text-only option -- describe what could be real House Sparrow behavior under extraordinary conditions. There are no talking animals here, just a story.

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A 1996 Birding Trip through Mexico
From sand dunes in extreme northern Mexico to borderline cloudforest in extreme southern Mexico, both coasts, a volcanic peak and both the Eastern and Western Sierra Madres, this account is half birds and half about the people and landscape. Each of the 15 units focuses on a different birding environment. The drawings are my own.

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Spring Comes to The Desert
The day after Christmas, 1987, Jim left for the Southwestern Desert, then for the next few months camped in various deserts chronicling the coming of spring. Click on plant & animal names to see what the organisms look like, and if the links break, please let me know. Maps and a few of my drawings, except for the text-only version.

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One Day in the Life of a Mexican Market
This short essay -- a reading of maybe 10 or 15 minutes -- stems from around 1995 when Jim spent a day in the giant, very crowded, colorful, loud, smelly, fascinating Merced Mercado in Mexico City, writing what he saw and experienced one hour after the other. A few images are included.

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Yerba Buena: Word-Snapshots from a Missionary Clinic in Southern Mexico's Indian Territory
In 1988 Jim visited an isolated hospital clinic in southern Mexico serving the area's indigenous population. Here you meet people and read about scenery and events that most people in the computer-using world can hardly imagine.

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A FIELD GUIDE TO NATURE'S WISDOM
This book was a stepping stone to the more recent Nature-Study Meditation, and includes a good bit of the same text. It's kept here mostly as an archive.

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