The Song Of The Dodo
David Quammen
  • Published: 22 August 1997
  • ISBN: 9780712673334
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $49.99

The Song Of The Dodo

Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

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This is a stunning book with graceful reverberations' Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge

Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
  • Published: 22 August 1997
  • ISBN: 9780712673334
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

David Quammen

David Quammen's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck, in Rome. 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 two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python.

Visit him at DavidQuammen.com

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Also by David Quammen

The Heartbeat of the Wild
Breathless
Yellowstone
The Chimp and the River
Ebola
Monster Of God
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Praise for The Song Of The Dodo

Not since Gerald Durrell's books 30 years ago have I encountered such writing about the natural world. The witty, pithy, modest prose and the clever interweaving of science and storytelling are of a quality unrivalled in th field

Matt Ridley, Sunday Telegraph

Impressive and deeply moving...blends first-rate science journalism with superb travel and nature writing

Financial Times

David Quammen is a brilliant young star of nature writing... His book is an important example of the genre, written in an enchanting style. His knowledge, based on years of research and adventure around the world, is truly impressive

Edward O. Wilson, author of 'The Diversity of Life'

A moving book... Quammen is a good writer who has taken the time to master an important subject and do it justice

Richard Dawkins, The Times

Not only is this book compulsively readable - a masterpiece - it is maybe the masterpiece of science journalism

Bill Mckibben, Audobon Magazine
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