Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
- ISBN-10
- 068485208X
- ISBN-13
- 9780684852089
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-03-16
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- David Quammen
Description
A collection of thoughts, essays, stories, and profiles from nature provides a look at such different places as the central Amazon, the South Pacific, and Cincinnati, detailing such adventures as kayaking on a Class V river in Chile and tracing the spread of the Ebola virus
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