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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

Quammen, David

Paperback

BiologyEnvironmental Studies

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0684827123
ISBN13: 9780684827124
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Apr 14 1997
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Awards: Helen Bernstein Book Award, John Burroughs Medal for Outstanding Natural History Writing
Compulsively readable--a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism. --Bill McKibben, Audubon

A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically alters our understanding of the natural world and our place within it. In this landmark of science writing, we learn how the isolation of islands makes them natural laboratories of evolutionary extravagance, as seen in the dragons of Komodo, the elephant birds of Madagascar, the giant tortoises of the Galapagos. But the dark message of island studies is that isolated ecosystems, whether natural or human-made, are also hotbeds of extinction. And as the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, are carved into pieces by human activity, the implications of this knowledge are more urgent than ever. An unforgettable scientific adventure, a fascinating account of an eight-year journey of discovery, and a wake-up call for our time, David Quammen's The Song of the Dodo is an exquisitely written book that takes the reader on a globe-circling tour of wild places and extraordinary ideas.

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