Boilerplate Rhino
Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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A termék adatai:
- Kiadó Simon & Schuster UK
- Megjelenés dátuma 2001. január 1.
- Kötetek száma Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9780743200325
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem288 oldal
- Méret 212x138x20 mm
- Súly 280 g
- Nyelv angol 0
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Rövid leírás:
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's readers with his fascinating ruminations on the world around us. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six of Quammen's most thoughtful and engaging essays from that column, none previously printed in any of his earlier books.
In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana; and halfway across Indonesia in search of the perfect Durian fruit. He ponders the history of nutmeg in the southern Moluccas, meditates on bioluminescent beetles while soaking in the waters of the Amazon, and delivers "The Dope on Eggs" from a chicken ranch near his hometown in Montana.
Quammen's travels are always jumping-off points to explore the rich and sometimes horrifying tension between humankind and the natural world, in all its complexity and ambivalence. The result is another irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold.
Hosszú leírás:
In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's readers with his fascinating ruminations on the world around us. The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six of Quammen's most thoughtful and engaging essays from that column, none previously printed in any of his earlier books.
In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana; and halfway across Indonesia in search of the perfect Durian fruit. He ponders the history of nutmeg in the southern Moluccas, meditates on bioluminescent beetles while soaking in the waters of the Amazon, and delivers "The Dope on Eggs" from a chicken ranch near his hometown in Montana.
Quammen's travels are always jumping-off points to explore the rich and sometimes horrifying tension between humankind and the natural world, in all its complexity and ambivalence. The result is another irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Contents
Introduction
I. ROADKILL ON THE HIGHWAY OF TIME
Rattlesnake Passion
The Narcotic of Empire
Hard Parts
II. DUBIOUS CERTITUDES, DAUNTLESS THEORIES
Certainty and Doubt in Baja
Phobia and Philia
Who Swims with the Tuna
Tropical Passengers
Spatula Theory
The Great Stinking Clue
The Dope on Eggs
III. FLESH OR FOWL OR WHAT?
The Cats That Fly by Themselves
Local Bird Makes Good
One Man's Meat
Either or Neither
IV. NEAR SIGHT
Beast in the Mirror
Palpating the Tumor
Rethinking the Lawn
Half
-Blinded Poets and Birds
Time
-and
-Motion Study
V. TRICKS OF THE LIGHT
The Boilerplate Rhino
Limelight
Gardening on Mars
Impersonating Henry Thoreau
God's Weakness for Beetles
Limits of Vision
Bibliography
Index
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