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The book's virtues include Quammen's vivid account of his treks to the world's wild places and interviews with the experts he finds there...There is much to glean here about the wonders, and also the fragility, of life on earth. -- Kirkus Reviews That a book on so technical a subject could be so enlightening, humorous, and engaging is an extraordinary achievement. -- Publishers Weekly In a wonderful weave of science, metaphor, and prose, David Quammen, author of The Flight of the Iguana, applies the lessons of island biogeography--the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape--to modern ecosystem decay, offering us insight into the origin and extinction of species, our relationship to nature, and the future of our world. -- Amazon.com The Song of the Dodo is a stunning work of scientific reporting and travel writing. Quammen's intelligence is so dependable, his narrative witty, compelling, acutely aware. -- Barry Lopez, New York Times bestselling author

The book's virtues include Quammen's vivid account of his treks to the world's wild places and interviews with the experts he finds there...There is much to glean here about the wonders, and also the fragility, of life on earth. -- Kirkus Reviews In a wonderful weave of science, metaphor, and prose, David Quammen, author of The Flight of the Iguana, applies the lessons of island biogeography--the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape--to modern ecosystem decay, offering us insight into the origin and extinction of species, our relationship to nature, and the future of our world. -- Amazon.com That a book on so technical a subject could be so enlightening, humorous, and engaging is an extraordinary achievement. -- Publishers Weekly The Song of the Dodo is a stunning work of scientific reporting and travel writing. Quammen's intelligence is so dependable, his narrative witty, compelling, acutely aware. -- Barry Lopez, New York Times bestselling author

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David Quammen is an author and journalist whose books include The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, Spillover, and the New York Times bestseller The Tangled Tree. Spillover was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Scientific American Book of the Year. He has received numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writingand the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. He has written for numerous magazines and is a contributing writer for National Geographic. Jacques Roy is a audio narrator and actor, known for The Lower Angels and Room and Board.

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