Life Everlasting

The Animal Way of Death

By Bernd Heinrich
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hardcover, 9780547752662, 256pp.)

Publication Date: June 19, 2012

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback

Categories: Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology, Animals

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Bernd Heinrich receives a letter from a severely ill friend asking if he might have a "green burial" at Heinrich's hunting camp, and the acclaimed biologist/author sets out to explore exactly how the animal world deals with the death-to-life cycle and what we can learn from the process, both ecologically and spiritually.




About the Author

Bernd Heinrich is an acclaimed scientist and the author of numerous award-winning books, including the bestselling The Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and Winter World. He is a frequent contributor to national media, and professor emeritus of biology at the University of Vermont.

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