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The Eye of the Sandpiper - Stories from the Living World (Paperback)
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The Eye of the Sandpiper - Stories from the Living World (Paperback)
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List price R519
Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
You Save R77 (15%)
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In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge
science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose
that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful
tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the
tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen,
reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the
natural world's wonders and posing new questions about our
relationship to the rest of life on Earth. The stories in The Eye
of the Sandpiper are arranged in four thematic sections. Each
addresses nature through a different lens. The first is
evolutionary and ecological dynamics, from how patterns form on
butterfly wings to the ecological importance of oft-reviled
lampreys. The second section explores the inner lives of animals,
which science has only recently embraced: empathy in rats, emotions
in honeybees, spirituality in chimpanzees. The third section
contains stories of people acting on insights both ecological and
ethological: nourishing blighted rivers, but also caring for
injured pigeons at a hospital for wild birds and demanding legal
rights for primates. The fourth section unites ecology and ethology
in discussions of ethics: how we should think about and behave
toward nature, and the place of wildness in a world in which space
for wilderness is shrinking. By appreciating the nonhuman world
more fully, Keim writes, "I hope people will also act in ways that
nourish rather than impoverish its life-which is, ultimately, the
problem that needs to be solved at this Anthropocene moment, with a
sixth mass extinction looming, once-common animals becoming rare,
and Earth straining to support 7.5 billion people. The solution
will come from a love of nature rather than chastisement or
lamentation."
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