Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas - Rilegato

Wallace, David Rains

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ISBN 10: 0520243226 ISBN 13: 9780520243224

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Spanning five hundred million years of evolution, a study of marine life along the Pacific coast of North America captures the remarkable diversity of creatures, past and present, that have made the habitat their home, from ancient giant sea cows and flightless toothed birds, to modern-day orcas and sea otters, and chronicles the exploits of the adventurers, explorers, scientists, and naturalists who studied the region.

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L'autore:

David Rains Wallace is the author of sixteen books, including Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution (UC Press), ANew York Times Notable Book; The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, UC Press), winner of the John Burroughs Medal;The Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age;and The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America, A New York Times Notable Book.

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"Neptune's Ark takes us on a voyage of discovery into the world of the enigmatic creatures who evolved in the ocean and the intrepid individuals who study them. In this moving and majestic book, David Rains Wallace navigates the mythic dimensions of humans' and animals' ancient, ambiguous relationship with the sea."Adrienne Mayor, author ofThe First Fossil Hunters and Fossil Legends of the First Americans

"In the pageant of creation, Earth's seas have always hosted the greatest part of the show. Wallace brings to life a spectacular array of marine organisms ancient and new, tiny and titanic, renowned and obscure-and some almost unimaginably weird-and illuminates often surprising connections between them. Have you ever wondered where modern sea lions come from? Or penguins? Pelicans? Manatees? Great whales? The answers, inNeptune's Ark, take your mind on a voyage through millions of years of natural history. Enjoy the swim."Douglas Chadwick, author ofThe Grandest of Lives

"Neptune's Ark delivers not only a riveting history of paleontology and the origins of marine mammalogy on the west coast-from Cope and Emlong to Steller and Scammon-but also a heartfelt tribute to the great creatures they all pursued so avidly."Dick Russell, author of Eye of the Whale

"Wallace writes fascinating accounts of the astounding menagerie of animals that once inhabited the waters of the west coast, from giant toothed birds, oyster bears, and the enigmaticDesmostylus, to enormous saber-toothed salmon. Paired with Ken Kirkland's exquisitely rendered and life-like drawings, this book is hard to put down."Ray Troll, author ofRapture of the Deep

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0520243226
• ISBN 13: 9780520243224
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Disegnatore: Kirkland Ken