Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 aug 1998

Starting with an elegant description of a small piece of land called Hungry Hollow, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to its denizens. The reader goes on a guided tour through the many dimensions of our natural habitat, back into prehistoric time and inward to a teeming microscopic world full of strange creatures performing bizarre feats.
"It surprised me how 220 pages explaining biological phenomena can add up to a literary image of the magic of lifePerhaps this book will go some way to redress the general deficiency in judgement that allows humans to endanger other life forms..." -NEW SCIENTIST

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780387984155
ISBN-10: 0387984151
Pagini: 233
Ilustrații: XIV, 233 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1998
Editura: Springer
Colecția Copernicus
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

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Descriere

Hungry Hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. But like all such places, it is also a vast and intricate web of life with extensions that reach around the planet, back into prehistoric time, and within to a teeming, bizarre microscopic world. In dozens of short, wonderfully imaginative chapters, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to the denizens of this world. We encounter a hackberry tree whose branches perfectly reproduce the taxonomic Tree of Life, learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba while swimming in a river, watch a toad win the lottery, and see the world of Hungry Hollow from the viewpoint of bears, earthworms, and even stones. This is an excursion into natural history like no other.

Cuprins

Procyon lotor.- The Tippecanoe Sea.- Dianne sapiens.- The Hackberry.- The Ant’s Journey.- Congress of Birds.- Microperson.- Water.- Cymbella and the Hypotrich.- On the Back of a Turtle.- The Meadow.- The Labyrinths.- Prayer of the Mantis.- The Hydraulic Plant.- The Storm.- Abundance.- In the Forest.- The Art of Decay.- Bear.- Stories in Stone.- Hungry Creek.- Requiem for a Toad.- Survival of the Lucky.- The Book of Kaolinite.- Didelphis virginianus.- Animal Minds.- Permanent Clearcut.- Ursa Major.- Notes.

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"...220 pages explaining biological phenomena add up to a literary image of the magic of life." New Scientist

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