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David Quammen
Flight of the Iguana [EPUB ebook]
A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

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From the award-winning author of The Tangled Tree and The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined.From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies. A distinguished essayist, Quammen’s reporting is masterful and thought provoking and his curiosity and fascination with the world of living things is infectious.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 320 ● ISBN 9781476728735 ● Editora Scribner ● Publicado 2012 ● Carregável 6 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 5725936 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM

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