In this charming memoir Terry C. Maxwell, author of Wildlife of the Concho Valley, shares his unusual adventures as naturalist, taking us from tropical jungles to the frozen tundra of Alaska, from such odd places as the Devil's Sinkhole in Texas to the exotic Galapagos Islands. What he does as a naturalist alone holds the reader's attention, though it is how he performs his work that will have readers retelling stories from this book long after they finish reading it.