Threads from the Web of Life: Stories in Natural History (Hardcover)

from VisibleGhost

This is a delightful little natural history book. A lot of science these days is focused on the very large and the very small. It's beyond our natural senses. Instead of being able to observe, hear, smell, and touch it, it becomes abstract out of necessity. Natural history remains one niche of sc...

from ulfhjorr

Threads from the Web of Life is a fine read. In vibrant and descriptive prose, Daubert creates quite nice pictures of different slices of the natural life of the Earth at many times and locales. For myself, I tend to look for a work that is more science-minded and -oriented than this work. It wou...

from Helcura

This delightful book is rather like a rich dessert, best ingested in small portions so that one can fully enjoy each bite. The book consists of short stories, each describing a moment in an ecosystem. Lyrical, but without anthropomorphism or sentimentality, these stories are densely beautiful sna...

from lg4154

I really enjoyed this book. The author is very descriptive and each chapter was really short. I loved the pictures and the writing equally well. I recommend it to students and adults alike, especially to those whom like environmental studies. This book is a very quick read, I read it in the after...

from Esta1923

"Threads from the Web of Life" (subtitled Stories in Natural History) is a wondrous experience in reading. Author Stephen Daubert's text (with illustrations by Chris Daubert) is enriched by the science notes and reference list that follow each story. Published by Vanderbilt University Press in 20...