David Quammen
Autor(a) de The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
About the Author
Writer David Quammen grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and was later educated at both Yale and Oxford Universities. Quammen began his career by writing for The Christian Science Monitor, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and Audubon, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Harpers Magazines. He wrote mostrar mais the novels The Soul of Viktor Tronko and The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, which won the 1997 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. He also received two National Magazine Awards for his column "Natural Acts" in Outside magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) David Quammen is the author of "The Boilerplate Rhino" & "The Song of the Dodo." Among his honors are two National Magazine Awards for his writing in "Outside." (Bowker Author Biography) David Quammen is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for his science essays & other work in "Outside" magazine. He is the author of three novels & several other books, including the award-winning "The Song of the Dodo". He lives in Bozeman, Montana. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por David Quammen
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind (2003) 772 exemplares
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (2006) 685 exemplares
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature {revised & expanded edition} (2008) 190 exemplares
The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope (2023) 18 exemplares
The Long Follow: J. Michael Fay's Epic Trek Across the Last Great Forests of Central Africa (2006) 4 exemplares
The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When 1 exemplar
The Origin of Species: Descent of a Text, With Modification (Bradley Lecture Series Publication) (2002) 1 exemplar
Strawberries Under Ice 1 exemplar
Darwin's Conundrum 1 exemplar
Life in Equilibrium 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Adrenaline 2001: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival (2001) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1989 (1989) — Author "The Ineffable Union of man and Horse" — 16 exemplares
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1948-02-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Locais de residência
- Bozeman, Montana, USA
- Educação
- Yale University
Oxford University - Ocupações
- journalist
science writer - Relações
- Quammen, Betsy Gaines (wife)
- Organizações
- National Geographic
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 1997)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1996)
Rhodes Scholar
National Magazine Award (x3)
Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism
Guggenheim Fellowship (mostrar todos 7)
John Burroughs Medal
Membros
Críticas
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly… por David Quammen
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An interesting book, more biographical than I had anticipated. Gives a general and very. Cursory overview of biology and evolution before getting down to the focus on horizontal gene transfer and evolutionary roots that are ostensibly the focus of the book. Gives short shrift to the implications of crispr , but that is not the focus of the book. Must read for fans of Carl Woese, likely to interest anyone with an interest in evolution, while also raising some hackles.
David Quamen is always good company. Here he travels to different parts of the world where people live cheek by jowl with man eating predators. He highlights the difficulties in implementing conservation efforts for dangerous animals in areas where people are surviving and may come in conflict with endangered creatures. He also shares some of the folklore and mythology of the reasons he visits and how the animals are part of the cultures and sometimes religion of the people involved.
One of the best science books I've read. the story hinges on Woese , discover/definer of Archaea.a cantankerous but insightful biologist who chased new insights despite not getting on with his colleagues (and competitors). but the book's triumph is to bring us up to date with how the history of life now understood in the light of half century working with DNA, the "Tree" is an inaequate metaphor. Early life and microbial life does not follow the conventional rules of inherited DNA, much of it is lateral transfer of genetic material, still an important part of microbial life , including among the pathogens.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Also by
- 23
- Membros
- 7,394
- Popularidade
- #3,303
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 170
- ISBN
- 182
- Línguas
- 15
- Marcado como favorito
- 31
