The best American science and nature writing 2000
By: edited and with an introduction by David Quammen ; Burkhard Bilger, series editor.
Contributors: Quammen, David, 1948-; Bilger, Burkhard.
Series: The best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Science.; Nature.; Natural history.; Technical writing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction : The vine-tree / by David Quammen; title: Men, women, sex, and Darwin / Natalie Angier; title: Back to the land / Wendell Berry; title: Africa's wild dogs / Richard Conniff; title: http://www.wheni̲se̲noughe̲nough?.com / Paul de Palma; title: Something happened / Helen Epstein; title: Under water / Anne Fadiman; title: The cancer-cluster myth / Atul Gawande; title: Clock of ages / Brian Hayes; title: That sense of falling / Edward Hoagland; title: A new germ theory / Judith Hopper; title: Heavy grace / Wendy Johnson; title: The wisdom of toads / Ken Lamberton; title: The island at the end of the earth / Peter Matthiessen; title: Lulu, Queen of the Camels / Cullen Murphy; title: The demon in the freezer / Richard Preston; title: Brilliant light / Oliver Sacks; title: This is not the place / Hampton Sides; title: Gorilla warfare / Craig B. Stanford; title: String theorists find a Rosetta Stone / Gary Taubes; title: Contributors' notes; title: Other notable science and nature writing of 1999.