Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, (Hardcover)

from pilastr

If you'd rather have your "news of the weird" buried under a pile of forced and mixed metaphors, this is your guy. Just awful writing, the painful attempts to include literary references make it worse still.

from Devil_llama

This author has a style that, at his best, is a cross between Stephen J. Gould and Edward Abbey. The problem is, while the book started out very promising, with the most enjoyable writing I've read all year, it soon loses steam. When he writes about the quirks and oddities of the animal kingdom, ...

from BeaverMeyer

This collection is hard to find, but it's a great one. Quammen's essays are phenomenal. He's the working man's biology writer. You don't have to have a degree to know what he's talking about, and I think that's because he took an English degree rather than biology. So he's just a great writer who...