Description
With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors our long and distinguished history of publishing the best writers in these fields. David Quammen, together with series editor Burkhard Bilger, has assembled a remarkable group of writers whose selections appeared in periodicals from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, SCIENCE, and THE NEW YORKER to PUERTO DEL SOL and DOUBLETAKE.
Among the acclaimed writers represented in this volume are:
- Back to the Land by Wendell Berry
- Something Happened by Helen Epstein
- Africa's Wild Dogs by Richard Conniff
- Under Water by Anne Fadiman
- Clock of Ages by Brian Hayes
- That Sense of Falling by Edward Hoagland
- A New Germ Theory by Judith Hooper
- Heavy Grace by Wendy Johnson
- The Wisdom of Toads by Ken Lamberton
- Lulu, Queen of the Camels by Cullen Murphy
- The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
and many more...
ISBN:9780618082957
