Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art - Hardcover

Greene, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520232755 ISBN 13: 9780520232754

Publisher: University of California Press, 2013

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Title: Tracks and Shadows( Field Biology as Art) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: HarryW.Greene <>Publisher: UniversityofCaliforniaPress

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Review:

"Fiercely honest and fascinating."--Jules Pretty"Times Higher Education" (10/24/2013)

"As packed with people and drama as a novel."--Stuart Pimm"Nature" (10/24/2013)

"Greene has created a rare bridge between [artists and scientists] and told us what it feels like to be a deeply sensitive research scientist, working in a world where the ecosystems are falling to bits around us."--Rick Shine"Current Biology" (11/08/2013)

"[Reminds] us that appreciation of the natural world is important to us as individuals and collectively."--Hollis Walker"Santa Fe New Mexican" (02/14/2014)

"As beautiful and nuanced as the landscapes it evokes."--The Scientist (11/15/2013)

"No one reading this paean for a respect of the outdoors and its inhabitants could fail to be enthused."--International Journal of Environmental Studies (03/21/2014)

"Harry Greene's exuberance for life infuses this scien- tific autobiography, which overflows with his passion for herpetology, the wild places that his beloved reptiles inhabit, and very human friendships."-- (04/01/2014)

"Achingly beautiful. . . . Greene succeeds in illuminating the world as a place of beauty, harmony, and danger, deeply interconnected and worthy of cherishing and preserving." Starred Review.--Publishers Weekly (08/19/2013)

"This scientist has a poet's heart. . . . Tracks and Shadows is a sweet surprise; rarely has science been so tender."--Booklist (11/01/2013)

"What a pleasure it is to read these meditations on a 'personal quest for wildness.' . . . What makes this book so rich is [the author's] gift with language along with his thoughtful appreciation of what it means to study nature and to travel, if ever so briefly, on a living planet."-- (03/01/2014)

About the Author:

Harry W. Greene is the Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and a recipient of the E.O. Wilson Award from the American Society of Naturalists. His book Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature (UC Press), won a PEN Literary Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0520232755
• ISBN 13: 9780520232754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255