- Biogeography, Island ecology, Endangered species, Ecology
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world.
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Earnest, epic, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- David Quammen
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 704
- Publisher
- Claassen Verlag, Touchstone Books, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781448137404
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