David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo

Cover: 9780684827124 | The Song of the Dodo | Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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 [...].

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1997
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780684827124
ISBN-10:	0684827123
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Quammen, David
Hersteller:	Scribner Book Company
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	233 x 156 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	David Quammen
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.04.1997
Gewicht:	0,729 kg