Carl Safina
Carl Safina's work has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University.
Safina is the inaugural holder of the endowed chair for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com.
Carl's books include Voyage of the Turtle, Becoming Wild, and The View from Lazy Point.
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Beyond Words: What Wolves and Dogs Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaptation)
Beyond Words
Carl Safina; photographs by Carl Safina
Roaring Brook Press
Roaring Brook Press
Eye-opening, wise, and filled with triumphant and heartbreaking stories about the wolf population at Yellowstone (as well as some personal anecdotes about dogs), Carl Safina's Beyond Words: What...
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Becoming Wild
Carl Safina
Henry Holt and Co.
Henry Holt and Co.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
"In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically...
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Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaptation)
Beyond Words
Carl Safina; photographs by Carl Safina
Roaring Brook Press
Roaring Brook Press
A young reader’s adaptation of The New York Times bestseller
Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan...
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Beyond Words
Carl Safina
Picador
Picador
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden...
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The View from Lazy Point
Carl Safina
Picador
Picador
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four...
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Voyage of the Turtle
Carl Safina
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of...
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Eye of the Albatross
Carl Safina
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and...
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Song for the Blue Ocean
Carl Safina
Henry Holt and Co.
Holt Paperbacks
Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers...
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