David Quammen, "The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature"
ISBN: 0684836262, 0385295928 | 1998 | EPUB | 320 pages | 2 MB
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. This book contains tales of vegetarian piranha fish, voiceless dogs, and a scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.