The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature - Brossura

Quammen, David

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ISBN 10: 0684836262 ISBN 13: 9780684836263

Casa editrice: Scribner, 1998

Riassunto

A naturalist/scientist introduces unusual creatures and their surprising habits, in a study that emphasizes the wealth of variety in the animal kingdom rather than the "freakishness" of the uncommon

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L'autore:

David Quammen’s fifteen books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. He has written for Harper’s, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, Outside, and Powder, among other magazines, and is a contributing writer for National Geographic. He wrote the entire text of the May 2016 issue of National Geographic on the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem—the first time in the history of the magazine that an issue was single-authored. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, an environmental historian, along with two Russian wolfhounds and a cross-eyed cat. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com. 

Product Description:

From the award-winning author of "The Song of the Dodo" comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684836262
• ISBN 13: 9780684836263
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320