The Boilerplate Rhino
Scribner (Verlag)
978-0-7432-0032-5 (ISBN)
From 1981 to 1996 David Quammen delighted readers of OUTSIDE magazine with his thoughtful ruminations on the world around us in his monthly column, NATURAL ACTS. This is a selection of twenty-six of his most durable and engaging essays from that column. The Boilerplate Rhino presents Quammen's distinctive take on topics such as rattlesnake handlers and rattlesnakes, eel mythology and living eels and arachnaphobia and spiders. Each essay is written in the articulate and penetrating style for which Quammen is so renowned. Each touches upon the rich and sometimes horrifically fascinating tension between man 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. From the acclaimed author of WILD THOUGHTS FROM WILD PLACES and the award winning THE SONG OF THE DODO.
David Quammen’s books include Breathless, The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among other magazines, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with three Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com.
Contents
Introduction
I. ROADKILL ON THE HIGHWAY OF TIME
Rattlesnake Passion
The Narcotic of Empire
Hard Parts
II. DUBIOUS CERTITUDES, DAUNTLESS THEORIES
Certainty and Doubt in Baja
Phobia and Philia
Who Swims with the Tuna
Tropical Passengers
Spatula Theory
The Great Stinking Clue
The Dope on Eggs
III. FLESH OR FOWL OR WHAT?
The Cats That Fly by Themselves
Local Bird Makes Good
One Man's Meat
Either or Neither
IV. NEAR SIGHT
Beast in the Mirror
Palpating the Tumor
Rethinking the Lawn
Half-Blinded Poets and Birds
Time-and-Motion Study
V. TRICKS OF THE LIGHT
The Boilerplate Rhino
Limelight
Gardening on Mars
Impersonating Henry Thoreau
God's Weakness for Beetles
Limits of Vision
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.7.2001 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 214 mm |
Gewicht | 268 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7432-0032-2 / 0743200322 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7432-0032-5 / 9780743200325 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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