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Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels
Abbie Gascho Landis
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Description for Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels
Hardback. A beautifully written and illuminating look at the lives of freshwater mussels and their impact on river health. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: PSVT3; WNCS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
In Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels, Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels, 70 percent of North American species are imperilled, will mean for humans and wildlife alike. In Immersion, Landis shares this journey, travelling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where ... Read more
In Immersion: The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels, Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels, 70 percent of North American species are imperilled, will mean for humans and wildlife alike. In Immersion, Landis shares this journey, travelling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Island Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610918077
SKU
V9781610918077
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Abbie Gascho Landis
Abbie Gascho Landis is a writer and veterinarian whose work has been published in Pinchpenny Press, Full Grown People, and Paste Magazine. She has won Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies 2015 Essay Award and an Arthur DeLong Writing Award and was a finalist for the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Award. Landis has a bachelor's degree in English and biology ... Read more
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