nature
Naturalists who rode alligators and climbed trees barefoot into their seventies.
The Boy in the Garden
A country doctor famous for birds made two small cuts in his gardener's eight-year-old son — and then did it again, and again, for years.
The Shoemaker Who Became a Bear
A grizzly attack left him with a silver-dollar-sized hole in his skull — and that bear ended up on the California state flag.
The Squire Who Taught Darwin Everything
He rode a caiman like a horse, built the world's first nature reserve, and accidentally set in motion the theory of evolution.
The Boy Who Kept Scorpions in Matchboxes
The zoo that once refused to hire him now sends its directors to the training academy he built.