David Quammen

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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the BeholderPaperback, 17 April 2001

The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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Part of Series
Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
Print Length
288 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Date Published
17 Apr 2001
ISBN-10
0743200322
ISBN-13
9780743200325

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
David Quammen
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 April 2001
Dimensions:
21.46 x 13.92 x 1.73 cm
ISBN-10:
0743200322
ISBN-13:
9780743200325
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
288
Weight:
254.01 gm

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