The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

From "one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking writers of natural history" (The Seattle Times), a collection...
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Author: David Quammen
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by Quammen, David

The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

$47.58

The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

$47.58
Author: David Quammen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From "one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking writers of natural history" (The Seattle Times), a collection of enduring essays that form a bestiary of wondrous creatures and a gallery of the human faces that peer at them.

The Boilerplate Rhino brings together twenty-six of David Quammen's most thoughtful and engaging essays from his column for Outside magazine, gifting readers with an irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold.

In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana; and halfway across Indonesia in search of the perfect Durian fruit. He ponders the history of nutmeg in the southern Moluccas, meditates on bioluminescent beetles while soaking in the waters of the Amazon, and delivers "The Dope on Eggs" from a chicken ranch near his hometown in Montana.

Quammen's travels are always jumping-off points to explore the rich and sometimes horrifying tension between humankind and the natural world, in all its complexity and ambivalence. The result is another irrepressible assortment of ideas to explore, conundrums to contemplate, and wondrous creatures to behold.

Author: David Quammen
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 04/17/2001
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.48w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780743200325

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