Jacqueline Geschickter

FOREWORD I vividly remember my excitement as a child each time an explorer visited our home. As I listened to one fascinating story after another, I came to see geography as an African plain full of wildlife, or the teeming, fragile web of life in a rain forest, or a polar region where only...

OR MEand I suspect for almost everyonemammals appeal deeply to the imagination. One of my favorites is the elephant. It's hard to imagine that such a massive beast can manipulate its trunk to pick up a tiny peanut and yet be able to heft a thousand-pound log of teak with obvious ease! In Sri Lanka,...

Visitors to museums in many cities walk through exhibits that recall life on earth long ago. Many people pause at displays that show huge animals. Some of these animals look like animals of today, but they are much larger. These giants lived during a period of time called the Age of Mammals....