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Brandon Keim - The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World - 9781501707728 - V9781501707728
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The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World

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Description for The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501707728
SKU
V9781501707728
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Brandon Keim
Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, WIRED, National Geographic News, Aeon, Nautilus, Scientific American Mind, The Guardian, Audubon Magazine, Grist, Mother Jones, Conservation, NOVA, and Anthropocene.

Reviews for The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World
Provides accessible and beautifully written food for thought for ecologists.
The Quarterly Review of Biology

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