"The natural world is a lot like a game of musical chairs,"
observes Pete Dunne. "Everywhere you turn, everywhere you go, there
are places where living things sit down, niches that support their
specific needs. But just as in musical chairs, there aren't enough
places to go around. Our species keeps removing them--forcing other
creatures to leave the game."
In these twenty-nine essays, one of America's top nature writers
trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the
natural world. Writing to infuse others with a sense of the
richness and diversity that nature holds, Pete Dunne ranges over
topics from the wonder of the year's first snowfall to the lost art
of stargazing to the mysterious forces that impel people to
hunt--and not to hunt. Running like a thread through all the essays
is Dunne's desire to preserve all that is "natural" in nature, to
stop our unthinking destruction of wild places and wild creatures
before we humans find ourselves with "the last chair, in an empty
room" on an impoverished earth.
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