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The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2000 First edition
Burkhard Bilger
The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2000 First edition
Burkhard Bilger
With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors our long and distinguished history of publishing the best writers in these fields.
David Quammen, together with series editor Burkhard Bilger, has assembled a remarkable group of writers whose selections appeared in periodicals from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, SCIENCE, and THE NEW YORKER to PUERTO DEL SOL and DOUBLETAKE. Among the acclaimed writers represented in this volume are Richard Preston on “The Demon in the Freezer,? John McPhee bidding “Farewell to the Nineteeth Century,? Oliver Sacks remembering the “Brilliant Light? of his boyhood, and Wendell Berry going “Back to the Land.? Also including such literary lights as Anne Fadiman, David Guterson, Edward Hoagland, Natalie Angier, and Peter Matthiessen, this new collection presents selections bound together by their timelessness.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 26, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780618082957 |
Publishers | Mariner Books |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 140 × 20 × 203 mm · 362 g |
Language | English |
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