The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805090406 (0805090401)
Publish date: January 4th 2011
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Ecology,
Animals,
Green
Heart-wrenching, eye-opening and exquisitely written. Safina has been compared to many of the giants in the natural history world, but he's a better writer than the lot of 'em. In this latest book, he waxes a bit more philosophical than he's done before. His philosophy fits my belief system like a g...
The Book Report: Carl Safina is an August Personage. He's a Guggenheim Fellow. He's a MacArthur Fellow. He's won at least two awards for literary merit in writing about science. He founded Blue Ocean Institute. He's been on the teevee, too! PBS, even Nightline! Here he chronicles the full twelve mon...