David Quammen's books include Breathless, The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among other magazines, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with three Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com.
"Magnificent . . . intelligent, playful . . . an epic adventure of the mind and spirit . . . Here is what a book can be." -The New York Times Book Review "As close as science writing gets to a thrilling adventure yarn." -Newsweek "Stunning." -Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams
The self-contained ecosystem is again used as a benchmark in this study of evolution and extinction by the author of Natural Acts (LJ 3/15/85).
"Magnificent . . . intelligent, playful . . . an epic adventure of the mind and spirit . . . Here is what a book can be." -The New York Times Book Review
"As close as science writing gets to a thrilling adventure yarn." -Newsweek "Stunning." -Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams
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