Virginia Morell
Virginia Morell is an American trade journalist and author who writes for Science and National Geographic , among others . She lives in Ashland , Oregon with her husband, author Michael McRae .
Awards
- 1996: The New York Times Book of the Year award for Ancestral Passions. The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
- 2001: Best Travel Book from the San Francisco Chronicle for Blue Nile: Ethiopia's River of Magic and Mystery
- 2013: Best Book of the Year for Animal Wise (Kirkus Reviews)
- 2014: Notable Book for 2014 for Animal Wise (The American Library Association)
Fonts
- Ancestral Passions. The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings , Simon and Schuster, 1996
- The Blue Nile: a rubber dinghy expedition on Ethiopia's mysterious river , in German by Dörte Fuchs and Jutta Orth, Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-934385-33-8 ; English original edition Blue Nile: Ethiopia's River of Magic and Mystery , National Geographic Books, 2001
- with Richard Leakey : Wildlife: A life for the elephants , German by Sebastian Vogel, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-043208-8
- Can the Wild Tiger survive? Science, 2007, Vol. 317 no. 5843 pp. 1312-1314 doi : 10.1126 / science.317.5843.1312
- Animal Wise (2013). Crown, ISBN 9780307461445
Web links
- Literature by and about Virginia Morell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page about Morell as the author of SCIENCE
- Morell's Twitter channel
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| SURNAME | Morell, Virginia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |