The Flight of the Iguana The Flight of the Iguana

The Flight of the Iguana

A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

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Publisher Description

The award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo examines weird and wonderful aspects of nature in this collection of wise, witty, and insightful essays.

From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, David Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies. A distinguished essayist, Quammen’s reporting is masterful and thought provoking and his curiosity and fascination with the world of living things is infectious.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2012
16 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
291
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SIZE
3.1
MB

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