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Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place Hardcover - 1998 - 1998th Edition

by A. K. Dewdney

A rare combination of richly imaginative narrative and accurately detailed science, "Hungry Hollow" takes readers on a guided tour through the many dimensions of our natural habitat, back into prehistoric time, and inward to a microscopic world teeming with strange creatures. 25 illus.


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In a series of short, wonderfully imaginative chapters, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to the vast and intricate web that is Hungry Hollow, a seemingly ordinary stretch of river somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. We encounter a hackberry tree that perfectly reproduces the taxonomic Tree of Life, learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba while swimming in a river, watch a toad win the lottery, and see the world of Hungry Hollow from the viewpoint of bears, earthworms and even stones. This is a natural history book like no other.

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Dewdney takes us on a guided journey through Hungry Hollow's many dimensions of time and space - a multifaceted prism through which its present and prehistory, and its worlds large and small, are all refracted. We meet many plants, animals, fungi, and other life forms, guided sometimes by the raccoon called Lotor, sometimes by the biologist Dianne, who is just coming to terms with the real world of biological diversity. We encounter a Hackberry tree whose branches reproduce the taxonomic tree of life; learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba; watch a toad win the survival lottery; and see the world of Hungry Hollow from the viewpoint of plants, earthworms, rotifers, and even stones. We also learn about the geological forces that molded North America, the kingdoms of life, surface tension, genetics, the strange sex lives of diatoms and bacteria, and how everything is eventually recycled into the molecular building blocks of nature.

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  • Title Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place
  • Author A. K. Dewdney
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1998th
  • Edition 1998
  • Pages 233
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Copernicus Books, New York
  • Date 1998-08-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780387984155 / 0387984151
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.35 x 0.95 in (24.03 x 16.13 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Natural history - East (U.S.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97048857
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508.74

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  • Booklist, 12/01/1998, Page 628
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