It was the farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain. The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. The Magic of Thinking Big by David J.Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway.

Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate by Jack Ewing.Life, Money, and Illusion: Living on this earth as if we want to stay by Mike Nickerson.Letters to a Young Scientist by EO Wilson.Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America by William Stolzenburg.Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb.Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey.

Cry of the Kalahari by Mark & Delia Owens.

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina.

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee.

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores.

A Life on our Planet by David Attenborough.

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Heart of a lion by william stolzenburg