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The Song of the Dodo
David Quammen
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Description for The Song of the Dodo
Paperback. In Darwin's time, island biogeography was the science that opened Victorian minds to the wonder of evolution. Today with all the world's wild landscape being chopped into island-like fragments, it's the science of jeopardy and extinction. This book combines science, historical narrative and travel. Num Pages: 704 pages, 1. BIC Classification: PD; RGM; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 53. Weight in Grams: 906.
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
904g
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712673334
SKU
V9780712673334
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99-2
About David Quammen
David Quammen is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the author of five acclaimed natural history titles. His most recent book, The Song of the Dodo, won the BP Natural World Book Prize in 1996. He lives in Montana.
Reviews for The Song of the Dodo
Not only is this book compulsively readable - a masterpiece - it is maybe the masterpiece of science journalism
Bill Mckibben
Audobon Magazine
A moving book... Quammen is a good writer who has taken the time to master an important subject and do it justice
Richard Dawkins
The Times
Not since Gerald Durrell's books 30 years ago have I encountered such writing about the natural world. The witty, pithy, modest prose and the clever interweaving of science and storytelling are of a quality unrivalled in th field
Matt Ridley
Sunday Telegraph
Impressive and deeply moving...blends first-rate science journalism with superb travel and nature writing
Financial Times
David Quammen is a brilliant young star of nature writing... His book is an important example of the genre, written in an enchanting style. His knowledge, based on years of research and adventure around the world, is truly impressive
Edward O. Wilson, author of 'The Diversity of Life'
Bill Mckibben
Audobon Magazine
A moving book... Quammen is a good writer who has taken the time to master an important subject and do it justice
Richard Dawkins
The Times
Not since Gerald Durrell's books 30 years ago have I encountered such writing about the natural world. The witty, pithy, modest prose and the clever interweaving of science and storytelling are of a quality unrivalled in th field
Matt Ridley
Sunday Telegraph
Impressive and deeply moving...blends first-rate science journalism with superb travel and nature writing
Financial Times
David Quammen is a brilliant young star of nature writing... His book is an important example of the genre, written in an enchanting style. His knowledge, based on years of research and adventure around the world, is truly impressive
Edward O. Wilson, author of 'The Diversity of Life'