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• ISBN: 0684837285
• ISBN: 9780684837284
• ISBN: 0743200322 (pbk)
• ISBN: 9780743200325 (pbk)
• Physical Description: 287 pages ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st Scribner trade paperback ed.
• Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2004, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Roadkill on the highway of time: Rattlesnake passion -- The narcotic of empire -- Hard parts -- Dubious certitudes, dauntless theories: Certainity and doubt in Baja -- Phobia and philia -- Who swims with the tuna -- Tropical passengers -- Spatula theory -- The great stinking clue -- The dope on eggs -- Flesh or fowl or what?: The cats that fly by themselves -- Local bird makes good -- One man's meat -- Either or neither -- Near sight: Beast in the mirror -- Pulpating the tumor -- Rethinking the lawn -- Half-blinded poets and birds -- Time-and-motion study -- Tricks of the light: The boilerplate rhino -- Limelight -- Gardening on Mars -- Impersonating Henry Thoreau -- God's weakness for beetles -- Limits of vision.

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Natural history.
Nature.