David Farrier

Gebundenes Buch

Nature's Genius

Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing, this is the remarkable and mind-expanding story of how we shape the lives of animals and plants - and how they shape us - by professor David Farrier

Autor

David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, looked at the marks we are leaving on the planet and how these might appear in the fossil record in the deep future. It was published in March 2020 with both The Times and The Telegraph naming it a book of the year. Its fans include Robert Macfarlane and Margaret Atwood, and it has been translated into nine other languages. He has had pieces published in The Atlantic, BBC Future, Emergence, Prospect, Daily Telegraph , Orion, and Washington Post. He has spoken at numerous online events, has given an invited lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, and has appeared on radio and podcasts such as BBC Free Thinking and Little Atoms. @David_Farrier

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781837260539
• ISBN-10: 1837260532
• Artikelnr.: 71889371