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The Spirit of the Valley: Where the Light of Science Meets the Shadow of Myth (Sierra Club Books Publication) - Hardcover

Trautman, Baxter

 
9781578050611: The Spirit of the Valley: Where the Light of Science Meets the Shadow of Myth (Sierra Club Books Publication)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1578050618 ISBN 13: 9781578050611
Verlag: University of California Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

The author discusses the intersection between science and history, covering everything from the reproductive capabilities of gall wasps to the truth behind snake lore, in a collection of natural history essays. 10,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Baxter Trautman grew up in Latin America and upstate New York. She received a master's degree in biology from California State University at San Luis Obispo and wrote her master's thesis on the mythology and science of California's coastal grasslands. She lives in Pozo, California, where she works as a naturalist and writes poetry and fiction as well as natural history.

Aus dem Klappentext

ique book, the reader buys one ticket and takes two trips: one through the sunny and tangible realm of a California oak woodland, the other through the enchanting province of mythology. Both journeys lead into comfortable and charming country.<br><br>Writing with a deep reverence for nature, poet and biologist Baxter Trautman reveals how the world of science connects with the worlds of history, myth, and the human spirit. Why do magpies chatter and bluebirds whisper? What common roadside plant was used as a poison in medieval times and centuries later as medicine by U.S. soldiers? Can female gall wasps really reproduce without males? Why do lizards have an "inevitable affinity" with human beings, while their cousins, the snakes, produce terror? Trautman answers these and other fascinating questions with the black-and-white pen of science dipped in the colorful ink of myth. The result is a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining book of natural history and much, much more.

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1578050618
ISBN 13 
9781578050611
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
166
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