Out of Eden: an Odyssey of Ecological Invasion - Alan Burdick - Libros - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 9780374530433 - 2 de mayo de 2006
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Alan Burdick
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Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships? ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels and poisonous foreign toads plague Australia; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of ?the homogenization of the world.? Never mind bulldozers and pesticides: the fastestgrowing threat to biological diversity may be nature itself.  Out of Eden is a dazzling personal journey through this strange and shifting landscape. Alan Burdick tours the front lines of ecological invasion in the company of world-class scientists: in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rain forests, aboard an Alaska-bound oil tanker, inside a spacecraft-assembly facility at NASA. Wry and reflective, animated and provocative, Out of Eden is a search both for scientific answers and for ecological authenticity, from a writer of remarkable range and talent. Out of Eden is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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Publicado 2 de mayo de 2006
ISBN13 9780374530433
Editores Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Páginas 352
Dimensiones 140 × 213 × 23 mm   ·   453 g
Lengua Inglés  

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