| The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature Contributor(s): Quammen, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684836262 ISBN-13: 9780684836263 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: As he examines everything from species survival on islands to vegetarian piranhas, Quammen's funny and offbeat essays offer a unique glimpse of the natural world and, at the same time, clarify the larger biological issues and their effect on humankind. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Nature | Animals - Wildlife - Nature | Ecology |
| Dewey: 508 |
| LCCN: 97030332 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.55" W x 8.46" (0.66 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. A distinguished natural science essayist, Quammen's reporting is masterful and thought provoking and his curiosity and fascination with the world of living things is infectious. |
Contributor Bio(s): Quammen, David: - 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. |