Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (original 1985; edition 1996)

by David Quammen

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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

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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature {original edition} by David Quammen (1985)

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an inordinate fondness for beetles an attribute of deity? mosquito as guardian of tropical forests, crows too intelligent

ritaer | Mar 16, 2020 |

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. (

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pilastr | Jul 31, 2014 |

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 love of nature shines through in his essays. (

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Haynes, Loren	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Please distinguish between this original David Quammen original essay anthology, Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (1985), and his revised & expanded anthology of the same title (2008). See contents listed in the book description CK below.

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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

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