David Quammen's "Wild Thoughts from Wild Places" turned me on to biogeography and the type of writing that combines natural history, autobiography and science writing using a plot-driven device and other popular elements of fiction.4/5(46). For the past two decades, David Quammen has followed winding trails and fresh lines of thought through the world's outback. This book is a collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces. In it you will meet seasoned professional kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and /5(7). · In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and /5(7).
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places David Quammen's collections of essays and longer work are all equally fine non-fiction pieces. He compares favorably to some of the very best non-fiction voices—John McPhee comes to mind. A slight warning, though. Quammen is slightly pessimistic in his view of mankind's impact on global ecology. In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes. David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places is a compilation of personal accounts that addresses different natural phenomena and looks deeper into the environmental and social justice behind human involvement in the natural world David Quammen's "Wild Thoughts from Wild Places" turned me on to biogeography and the type of writing that.
David Quammen's "Wild Thoughts from Wild Places" turned me on to biogeography and the type of writing that combines natural history, autobiography and science writing using a plot-driven device and other popular elements of fiction. Quammen even finds wildness in smog-choked Los Angeles -- embodied in an elusive population of urban coyotes, too stubborn and too clever to surrender to the sprawl of civilization. With humor and intelligence, David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places also reminds us that humans are just one of the many species on earth with motivations. In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces introduces kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw.