The Flight of the Iguana A Sidelong View of Science and Nature,9780684836263

The Flight of the Iguana A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

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ISBN13: 9780684836263
ISBN10: 0684836262
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-02-16
Publisher(s): Scribner
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Summary

As he examines everything from species survival on islands to vegetarian piranhas, Quammen's funny and offbeat essays offer a unique glimpse of the natural world and, at the same time, clarify the larger biological issues and their effect on humankind.

Author Biography

David Quammen’s sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck, in Rome. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among other magazines, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com. 

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Mouse Is Miracle Enough ix(6)
Author's Note xv
I. FACES UNLIKE OURS
1(60)
The Face of a Spider
3(7)
Thinking About Earthworms
10(7)
The Thing with Feathers
17(8)
Nasty Habits
25(7)
Stalking the Gentle Piranha
32(8)
See No Evil
40(7)
Turnabout
47(7)
The Selfhood of a Spoon Worm
54(7)
II. WILD NOTIONS
61(44)
The Descent of the Dog
63(7)
Street Trees
70(7)
The Ontological Giraffe
77(7)
The Lonesome Ape
84(6)
Stranger than Truth
90(7)
Deep Thoughts
97(8)
III. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
105(72)
Island Getaway
107(7)
Talk Is Cheap
114(8)
Icebreaker
122(10)
Agony in the Garden
132(8)
The Poseidon Shales
140(7)
The Beautiful and Damned
147(8)
Provide, Provide
155(6)
The Flight of the Iguana
161(16)
IV. THE MORAL ECOLOGY OF A DESERT
177(54)
The Beaded Lizard
179(24)
Drinking the Desert Juices
203(8)
The Desert Is a Mnemonic Device
211(20)
V. CHAMBERS OF MEMORY
231(48)
The Miracle of the Geese
233(8)
Swamp Odyssey
241(20)
The Siphuncle
261(9)
The Same River Twice
270(9)
Partial Sources 279

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