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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places Paperback - 1999

by David Quammen

A two-time winner of the "National Magazine" Award takes readers from the central Amazon to the streets of New York to explore scientific facts, ideas, and wonders.


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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.

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  • Title Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
  • Author David Quammen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Touchstone ed
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Date 1999-03-16
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780684852089 / 068485208X
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.36 x 5.56 x 0.81 in (21.23 x 14.12 x 2.06 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508

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Citations

  • New York Times, 04/11/1999, Page 40

About the author

David Quammen has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novels, stories, and essays. He is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for science essays and other work in Outside magazine. He is the author of several books, including The Song of the Dodo. Quammen lives in Montana.
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