The Klamath Knot – Explorations of Myth & Evolution
Autor David Rains Wallaceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2003
"In Wallace's hands, evolution is never mechanical or abstract; it is always seen operating in particular sites and species. As a stylist and a thinker Wallace is in a select class of writers who make science into literature."--Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia
"For those of us who like David Rains Wallace's writing, it is good news indeed that his much-admired The Klamath Knot is back in print."--Sue Hubbell, author of Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones
"A classic of natural history which will take its place alongside Walden and A Sand County Almanac."--G. Ledyard Stebbins, author of Variation and Evolution in Plants
"The Klamath Knot is a marvelous book, one of the finest nature essays I have read, beautifully written, full of stimulating ideas and insights."--George B. Schaller, author of The Last Panda
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780520236592
ISBN-10: 0520236599
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 184 x 228 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Anniversary.
Editura: University of California Press
ISBN-10: 0520236599
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 184 x 228 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Anniversary.
Editura: University of California Press
Notă biografică
David Rains Wallace is the author of over a dozen books, including The Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age (1999), The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America (1997), and The Quetzal and the Macaw: The Story of Costa Rica's National Parks (1992).
Descriere
This work is a vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of "evolutionary mythology". Using his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region, the author ponders the role of evolution and myth in American culture.