The Song Of The Dodo

The Song Of The Dodo
Author: David Quammen
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2012-03-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1448137403


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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.


The Song Of The Dodo
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: David Quammen
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-31 - Publisher: Random House

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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowston
The Song of the Dodo
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: David Quammen
Categories: Biogeography
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Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: David Quammen
Categories: Nature
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Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: David Quammen
Categories: Science
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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: David Quammen
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-16 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This