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Title: Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature/Audio Cassettes by David Quammen ISBN: 0-939643-28-6 Publisher: Audio Pr Pub. Date: July, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: not painful
Comment: Science writing is rarely both illuminating and entertaining, and that is why this book is exceptional.
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be 6 Stars.......... Simply Great
Comment: Having read many science and nature writers, this was my first experience reading Quammen. I was thrilled. Quammen is a fabulous writer. This book is a collection of Quammen's essays on topics ranging from Sea Cucumber to cockroaches to crows to amimal rights to deserts to rivers to turtles and much more. I doubt if you'll find such a rich, diverse and eclectic collection of natural writings anywhere else. Must read and own.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great, for what it is
Comment: Quammen's first work in book form is merely a collection of his various magazine articles. You may be slightly annoyed when reading the book in a couple days because some subjects are repeated. But when you realize they appeared 2 or 3 yrs apart in a magazine, its easily excusable. Especially when the writing is so superb, timely (actually ahead of its time, since much of it was written 20+ years ago), interesting and educational. Some of the more dire environmental predictions havent exactly come true (YET), but that does not diminish the urgency of our ecological nightmare.
Read this book as a primer, then read Quammen's "Song of the Dodo," to gain some true knowledge.
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Title: The FLIGHT OF THE IGUANA: A SIDELONG VIEW OF SCIENCE AND NATURE by David Quammen ISBN: 0684836262 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 16 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen ISBN: 0393051404 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen ISBN: 0743200322 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: WILD THOUGHTS FROM WILD PLACES by David Quammen ISBN: 068485208X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The SONG OF THE DODO: ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTIONS by David Quammen ISBN: 0684827123 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 14 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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