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A Naturalist at Large: the Best of Bernd Heinrich

✍ Scribed by Heinrich, Bernd

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Edition
Illustrated
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0544986873

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, bring "passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science" (New York Times).**

From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded "marvelous, mind-altering" (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine; plays host to annoying visitors from Europe (the cluster fly) and more helpful guests from Asia (ladybugs); and unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of elephants in Botswana bruising mopane trees. Heinrich then turns to his great love, the extraordinary behaviors of ravens; chronicles a magical sighting of hundreds of loons congregated on a lake in Maine, something never recorded...

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