Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death - Couverture rigide

Heinrich, Bernd

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0547752660 ISBN 13 : 9780547752662

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Heinrich Bernd

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Praise for WHY WE RUN:

“ [T]horoughly engrossing . . . As inspiring as it is fascinating, this book should have wide appeal both within and beyond the athletic world”—Publishers Weekly

 “The book operates on several levels: as a memoir, natural history, experimental training guide.... There is an unfailing wonder in [Heinrich’s] writing that gives the book a transforming visual quality.”—New York Times Book Review

“A meditation on humanity. It is the work of a mind that is restless in the most profound sense....”—Boston Sunday Globe

Praise for THE NESTING SEASON:

"Blending scientific research with memoir, Heinrich reveals the complex courtship and mating rituals of birds--along with the startling commonalities between certain human and avian domestic arrangements...Skillfully narrated and illustrated by the author's own photographs and watercolor sketches, this book offers a range of intellectual and aesthetic pleasures." --Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating exploration of the biological origins of bonding and emotional attachment."--Outside online

"Perhaps the best natural history book of the year! Heinrich illuminates one of the hottest topics in contemporary biology in a very accessible way. A great read.--Wayne Mones Audubon magazine blog

Praise for THE SNORING BIRD:

"Arguably today's finest naturalist author...our latter-day Thoreau."--Publishers Weekly

"Heinrich, who combines his keen scientific eye with the soul of a poet, enthralls." --New York Times Book Review

"One of the finest living examples of that strange hybrid: the science writer."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"[B]rilliant...there is in Heinrich's every page, wonderment." --San Francisco Chronicle

"[S]plendid nature writing...a fascinating glimpse of the growth of one scientist's mind. Heartily recommended."--Library Journal

Praise for RACING THE ANTELOPE:

"As inspiring as it is fascinating, this book should have wide appeal both within and beyond the athletic world."--Publishers Weekly

Praise for SUMMER WORLD:

"Bernd Heinrich-the object of my admiration-has been . . . writing about [nature] with brio, for decades. Perhaps his most attractive quality . . . . is his ability to find something intellectually stimulating whenever he steps out the door. . . . The man is irrepressible."--New York Times Book Review

"One of our greatest living naturalists...Heinrich, author of 15 marvelous, mind-altering books.is a national treasure." --LA Times

"This is hands-and-knees science at its most engaging...as the great greening occurs all around us, we can only hope to see half as much as Heinrich does."--Boston Globe

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle

When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at how the animal world renews itself? Heinrich focuses his wholly original gaze on the fascinating doings of creatures most of us would otherwise turn away from—field mouse burials conducted by carrion beetles; the communication strategies of ravens, “the premier northern undertakers”; and the “inadvertent teamwork” among wolves and large cats, foxes and weasels, bald eagles and nuthatches in cold-weather dispersal of prey. Heinrich reveals, too, how and where humans still play our ancient and important role as scavengers, thereby turning—not dust to dust—but life to life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547752660
• ISBN 13: 9780547752662
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256