Fire and Fauna
Subtitle: Tales of a Life Untamed
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781623498313
Subjects: Zoologists; Florida, biography; Turtles; Wildlife conservation
Description: "Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"--