The Song Of The Dodo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Song Of The Dodo write by David Quammen. This book was released on 2012-03-31. The Song Of The Dodo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
The Song of the Dodo
The Song of the Dodo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Song of the Dodo write by David Quammen. This book was released on 1997-04-14. The Song of the Dodo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, Audubon A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically alters our understanding of the natural world and our place within it. In this landmark of science writing, we learn how the isolation of islands makes them natural laboratories of evolutionary extravagance, as seen in the dragons of Komodo, the elephant birds of Madagascar, the giant tortoises of the Galapagos. But the dark message of island studies is that isolated ecosystems, whether natural or human-made, are also hotbeds of extinction. And as the world’s landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, are carved into pieces by human activity, the implications of this knowledge are more urgent than ever. An unforgettable scientific adventure, a fascinating account of an eight-year journey of discovery, and a wake-up call for our time, David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo is an exquisitely written book that takes the reader on a globe-circling tour of wild places and extraordinary ideas.
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Thoughts from Wild Places write by David Quammen. This book was released on 2012-10-16. Wild Thoughts from Wild Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw. We are introduced to the commerce in pearls (and black-market parrots) in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. Quammen even finds wildness in smog-choked Los Angeles -- embodied in an elusive population of urban coyotes, too stubborn and too clever to surrender to the sprawl of civilization. With humor and intelligence, David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places also reminds us that humans are just one of the many species on earth with motivations, goals, quirks, and eccentricities. Expect to be entertained and moved on this journey through the wilds of science and nature.
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature write by David Quammen. This book was released on 2009-03-30. Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "David Quammen is simply the best natural essayist working today."--Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard "Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic Vietnam vet?), and cloning (can it save endangered species?). This revised and expanded edition best-loved "Natural Acts" columns, which first appeared in Outside magazine in the early 1980s, and includes recent pieces such as "Planet of Weeds," an influential new Natural Acts is an eye-opening journey that will please both Quammen fans and newcomers to his work. Song lyrics have been redacted from this ebook owing to permissions issues.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic write by David Quammen. This book was released on 2012-10. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.
