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Available
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Publication
Publisher Unknown (1969)
Description
A collection of his popular essays from Outside magazine, here Quammen writes about dinosaurs, crows, octopi, beetles, and human beings with an eye for the irony and humor in nature. "A delightful blend of skepticism, intelligence, and accurate reporting". -- Barry Lopez
User reviews
LibraryThing member BeaverMeyer
This collection is hard to find, but it's a great one. Quammen's essays are phenomenal. He's the working man's biology writer. You don't have to have a degree to know what he's talking about, and I think that's because he took an English degree rather than biology. So he's just a great writer whose
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love of nature shines through in his essays. Show Less
LibraryThing member pilastr
If you'd rather have your "news of the weird" buried under a pile of forced and mixed metaphors, this is your guy. Just awful writing, the painful attempts to include literary references make it worse still.
LibraryThing member ritaer
an inordinate fondness for beetles an attribute of deity? mosquito as guardian of tropical forests, crows too intelligent
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Awards
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Winner — 1986)
Original publication date
1985