Wild Thoughts from Wild Places - David Quammen

Descriere Wild Thoughts from Wild Places - David Quammen

A two-time winner of the National Magazine Award takes readers from the central Amazon to the streets of New York to explore scientific facts, ideas, and wonders. \nIn Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. \nThis collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces introduces kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw. \n \nReaders learn of the commerce in pearls (and black-market parrots) in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. Quammen even finds wildness in smog-choked Los Angeles -- embodied in an elusive population of urban coyotes, too stubborn and too clever to surrender to the sprawl of civilization. \n \nWith humor and intelligence, David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places also reminds us that humans are just one of the many species on earth with motivations, goals, quirks, and eccentricities. Expect to be entertained and moved on this journey through the wilds of science and nature.\n

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Scribner Book Company

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ENSTK

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9780684852089

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1

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