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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Author: David Quammen
From kayaking on a Class V river in Chile to tracking the spread of the Ebola virus to tracing the evolution of the street pigeon, the author of "The Song of the Dodo" once again thrills and enlightens his readers with a fascinating collection of essays drawn from his real-life adventures and explorations Print ads. National author publicity. In...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781439503027
ISBN-10: 1439503028
Publication Date: 6/26/2008
Pages: 304
Edition: Reprint
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Book Type: Library Binding
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Various stories about people and places with reguard to wilderness areas.
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Good naturalist writings. He likes the cold and ice.
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This is a collection of short stories, drawn from magazine articles, I believe, from a man who has to be, hands down, the best scientific writer ever. I'm convinced he could write about anything, the most mundane and tedious topic in science, and make it humorous and entertaining. This collection will be skewed to nature writing and to the best of my memory (it's been awhile) mostly with the uniting theme of the interaction/tension between the natural world and human society. Excellent. I don't know anyone who hasn't read on who didn't want to run out and get ALL of his others as well (of course, I hang out with A LOT of science nerds...so, you know, grain of salt).