The Song of the Dodo : Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

ISBN-13: 9780712673334 / Angielski / 1997 / 704 str.

David Quammen

Opis

Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.

Recenzje

Not only is this book compulsively readable - a masterpiece - it is maybe the masterpiece of science journalism Bill Mckibben Audobon Magazine

O autorze

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. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, National Geographic and Outside, among other publications, 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