A. K. Dewdney

Hungry Hollow (eBook, PDF)

The Story of a Natural Place

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461222200
• Artikelnr.: 44178954

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

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