The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618082957)

With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors our long and distinguished history of publishing the best writers in these fields.
David Quammen, together with series editor Burkhard Bilger, has assembled a remarkable group of writers whose selections appeared in periodicals from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, SCIENCE, and THE NEW YORKER to PUERTO DEL SOL and DOUBLETAKE. Among the acclaimed writers represented in this volume are Richard Preston on "The Demon in the Freezer," John McPhee bidding "Farewell to the Nineteeth Century," Oliver Sacks remembering the "Brilliant Light" of his boyhood, and Wendell Berry going "Back to the Land." Also including such literary lights as Anne Fadiman, David Guterson, Edward Hoagland, Natalie Angier, and Peter Matthiessen, this new collection presents selections bound together by their timelessness.

Author: David Quammen, Burkhard Bilger
ISBN-10: 0618082956
ISBN-13: 9780618082957
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2000
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2000 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 08/28/2000 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2000 pg. 1340
Library Journal 10/01/2000 pg. 138
Entertainment Weekly 12/01/2000 pg. 93
Booklist 10/15/2000 pg. 398