Natural Acts, 1st Edition
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
$57.48
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
A revised and expanded edition of Quammen’s first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work.
“Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,” said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of his first essay collection, Quammen’s lively curiosity leads him from …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393058055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393058050 |
| Author: | David Quammen |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 507g |
| Dimensions: | 221mm x 152mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
David Quammen
David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
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