Wild Thoughts from Wild PlacesSimon and Schuster, 16 mar 1999 - 304 In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces introduces kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw. Readers learn of the commerce in pearls (and black-market parrots) in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. Quammen even finds wildness in smog-choked Los Angeles -- embodied in an elusive population of urban coyotes, too stubborn and too clever to surrender to the sprawl of civilization. With humor and intelligence, David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places also reminds us that humans are just one of the many species on earth with motivations, goals, quirks, and eccentricities. Expect to be entertained and moved on this journey through the wilds of science and nature. |
Spis treści
Introduction | 11 |
Synecdoche and the Trout | 19 |
Time and Tide on the Ocoee River | 27 |
Vortex | 46 |
Only Connect | 56 |
Grabbing the Loop | 66 |
The White Tigers of Cincinnati | 81 |
To Live and Die in L A ୨୦ | 90 |
The Trees Cry Out on Currawong Moor | 165 |
The Big Turn | 178 |
Eat of This Flesh | 187 |
The Swallow That Hibernates Underwater | 199 |
Trinket from Aru | 208 |
Bagpipes for Ed | 218 |
Point of Attachment | 226 |
Voice Part for a Duet | 236 |
Reaction Wood | 100 |
Superdove on 46th Street | 109 |
Before the Fall | 118 |
Pinhead Secrets | 129 |
The Keys to Kingdom Come | 142 |
Karls Sense of Snow | 155 |
Love in the Age of Relativity | 245 |
Strawberries Under Ice | 253 |
es and Provenance | 269 |
iography | 275 |
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