Displaying 1 of 1 2000 Format: Book Author: Quammen, David, 1948- Title: The boilerplate rhino : nature in the eye of the beholder / David Quammen. Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, ©2000. Description: 287 pages ; 24 cm Summary: Twenty-six of the author's essays, never before printed in any of his earlier books and written in a fifteen year span, from his monthly column, "Natural acts," published in Outside magazine. Subjects: Natural history. Nature. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index. Contents: Roadkill on the highway of time: Rattlesnake passion -- The narcotic of empire -- Hard parts -- Dubious certitudes, dauntless theories: Certainty 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 -- Palpating 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. LCCN: 99056894 ISBN: 0684837285 9780684837284 Other Number: 42786284 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 75751 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: 508 Quammen Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
