Produktbeschreibung
Interweaving personal observation, scientific theory, and history, this beautifully written book takes the reader on a globe-spanning tour of wild places and ideas. "An epic adventure of the mind and spirit."--Robert Kanigel, The New York Times Book Review. Maps.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS
I Thirty-Six Persian Throw Rugs
II The Man Who Knew Islands
III So Huge a Bignes
IV Rarity unto Death
V Preston's Bell
VI The Coming Thing
VII The Hedgehog of the Amazon
VII The Song of the Indri
IX World in Pieces
X Message from Aru
GLOSSARY
AUTHOR'S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SOURCE NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Kritik
"Magnificent . . . intelligent, playful . . . an epic adventure of the mind and spirit . . . Here is what a book can be." -The New York Times Book Review
"As close as science writing gets to a thrilling adventure yarn." -Newsweek
"Stunning." -Barry Lopez, author of Of Wolves and Men
"Compulsively readable-a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism." -Bill McKibben, Audubon
Autoreninfo
David Quammen's books include Breathless, The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among other magazines, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with three Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.