num_pages: 320
description: The first in a new annual anthology of the finest science writing to be published in 1999 features such works as Richard Preston's "The Demon in the Freezer," John McPhee's "Farewell to the Nineteenth Century," "Brilliant Light" by Oliver Sacks, and other essays by Wendell Berry, Anne Fadiman, David Guterson, Peter Matthiessen, and other notable authors.
language: English
title: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
titlecomplete: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
genres: Essays, Science, Reference, Anthologies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 172
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt