What book about Wildlife will inspire me and provide me with an insight into the subject?

waddle_waddle_waddle_penguin: What book about Wildlife will inspire me and provide me with an insight into the subject?
I have recently become a wildlife major at Humboldt State University, and I am taking the first required class of that major: Introduction to Wildlife Conservation & Administration.

So far, the class has been little more than a jumbled series of dates and their corresponding policies. This stuff, while perhaps important, is disappointingly uninspiring as a first experience of this subject to which I intend to dedicate much of my life.

I am hoping that people can recommend to me books that I could supplement my education with that will provide me with further appreciation and insight into the subject. I am particularly interested in learning the background of human’s relationship with wildlife, dating further back into history (way back in history), and then seeing how that has evolved into the sort of structures we have now.

Really, I am interested in any book that addresses the topic of humans and their relationship with wildlife that is informative and interesting.Thanks!

Answers and Views:

Answer by birdgirl
I can suggest good books about wildlife conservation…they are not really historical, but they are about wildlife biologists. They are a husband and wife team that have spent years in Africa studying wildlife. They have worked with lions, hyenas, elephants, etc. Try picking up “Cry of the Kalahari” by Mark and Delia Owens. They also wrote “Eye of the Elephant” and “Secrets of the Savanna”.

Answer by F C
There’s a few I’ve read that talk about nature and include the relation of man to nature:

“Man on Earth”
“Handbook of Nature Study”
“The Eternal Frontier”
“The Natural History of North American Trees”