Air: The Restless Shaper of the World Contributor(s): Logan, William Bryant (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393345394 ISBN-13: 9780393345391 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
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BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.57" W x 8.21" (0.75 lbs) 416 pages |
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Publisher Description: Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a square foot of summer air. The chemical sense of aphids, the ultraviolet sight of swifts, a newborn's awareness of its mother's breast--all take place in the medium of air. Ignorance of the air is costly. The artist Eva Hesse died of inhaling her fiberglass medium. Thousands were sickened after 9/11 by supposedly "safe" air. The African Sahel suffers drought in part because we fill the air with industrial dusts. With the passionate narrative style and wide-ranging erudition that have made William Bryant Logan's work a touchstone for nature lovers and environmentalists, Air is--like the contents of a bag of seaborne dust that Darwin collected aboard the Beagle--a treasure trove of discovery. |
Contributor Bio(s): Logan, William Bryant: - William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of Dirt, Oak, Air, and Sprout Lands. |