Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684852089)

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.

Author: David Quammen
ISBN-10: 068485208X
ISBN-13: 9780684852089
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 03/16/1999
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.56w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/11/1999 pg. 40