In 1971 she read an old writer's nature book and thought, "I can do better than this."

She is especially known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals.

The coffee table was hidden under stacks of nature books and a backgammon board.

It is in this sense a nature book.

The best nature books should do more than inform.

This was a time when textbooks had few local examples and popular nature books were on foreign plants and animals.

The author subsequently left the society and went on to published three other nature books.

So I tell him that the nature books are right over there.

He would have to buy some nature books so that the children could identify the creatures they "collected."

And a nature book is usually a safe choice - but what if there are dueling books about the desert?