Real Mosquitoes Don't Eat Meat: This and Other Inquiries Into the Oddities of Nature, the Best of Outside Magazine's "The Wild File" - Softcover

Wetzler, Brad

 
9780393061574: Real Mosquitoes Don't Eat Meat: This and Other Inquiries Into the Oddities of Nature, the Best of Outside Magazine's "The Wild File"
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393061574 ISBN 13: 9780393061574
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Where does the white go when the snow melts? What's the maximum number of people the earth can hold? These and many other quirky questions about the natural world are answered in this all-new collection from Outside magazine's wildly popular "Wild File" columna space where readers' questions about natural science and outdoor lore are answered with the help of scientists, expert outdoorsmen, and professors. Both fun and thorough, these essays probe the curiosities that we never even knew we wanted to know, such as: Why can't bats fly straight? What are sea legs? Why don't woodpeckers get headaches? To answer these and many more questions, the author tracks down and interviews the experts behind each question posed: authorities in camelid biology, elephant psychology, leech behavior, ball lightening, and the biochemistry of "gamy" meat, to name a few.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brad Wetzler is a contributing editor to Outside and the author of the magazine's "Wild File" column. His work has appeared in the Best American Travel Writing series as well as in Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure. He has also written for the New York Times, GQ, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393061574
ISBN 13 
9780393061574
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
186
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