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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (Paperback, Touchstone ed): David Quammen

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (Paperback, Touchstone ed)

David Quammen

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From coyotes in downtown LA to birds of paradise in the back-country of New Guinea, US science, nature and travel writer Quammen has the gift of making you feel like you're right there with him, but more than that, you enjoy being there and come out learning more than you thought possible. His essays investigate the meanderings of the human heart and mind. This is the best sort of armchair travelling, scientific exploration and all-round ruminating by a master of all these forms. (Kirkus UK)

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.

General

Imprint: Scribner
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 1999
First published: March 1999
Authors: David Quammen
Dimensions: 214 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 304
Edition: Touchstone ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85208-9
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
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LSN: 0-684-85208-X
Barcode: 9780684852089

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