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The boilerplate rhino : nature in the eye of the beholder / David Quammen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quammen, David, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2000.
- Summary:
- The author hailed by Edward O. Wilson as "a brilliant young star of nature writing" explores the relationship between humans and the natural world in a collection of essays culled from his popular "Outside" magazine column.
- Contents:
- Roadkill on the highway of time: Rattlesnake passion
- The narcotic of empire
- Hard parts
- Dubious certitudes, dauntless theories: Certainity and doubt in Baja
- Phobia and philia
- Who swims with the tuna
- Tropical passengers
- Spatula theory
- The great stinking clue
- The dope on eggs
- Flesh or fowl or what?: The cats that fly by themselves
- Local bird makes good
- One man's meat
- Either or neither
- Near sight: Beast in the mirror
- Pulpating the tumor
- Rethinking the lawn
- Half-blinded poets and birds
- Time-and-motion study
- Tricks of the light: The boilerplate rhino
- Limelight
- Gardening on Mars
- Impersonating Henry Thoreau
- God's weakness for beetles
- Limits of vision.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0684837285
- OCLC:
- 42786284
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