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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction Trade paperback - 1997

by David Quammen

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Interweaving personal observation, scientific theory, and history, this beautifully written book takes the reader on a globe-spanning tour of wild places and ideas. "An epic adventure of the mind and spirit".--Robert Kanigel, "The New York Times Book Review". Maps.

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Scribner, April 1997. Trade Paperback. VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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Details

  • Title The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
  • Author David Quammen
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - VG-
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner, New York
  • Date April 1997
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1156565
  • ISBN 9780684827124 / 0684827123
  • Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.2 x 1.22 in (23.42 x 15.75 x 3.10 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Endangered species, Biogeography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044972
  • Dewey Decimal Code 574.91

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LET'S START indoors.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 04/13/1997, Page 32

About the author

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.

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