William Bryant Logan

Air

The Restless Shaper of the World

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Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a square foot of summer air. The chemical sense of aphids, the ultraviolet sight of swifts, a newborn's awareness of its mother's breast-all take place in the medium of air.Ignorance of the air is costly. The artist Eva Hesse died of inhaling her fiberglass medium. Thousands were sickened after 9/11 by supposedly safe air. The African Sahel suffers drought in part because we fill the air with industri… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-34539-1
EAN: 9780393345391
Produktnummer: 13770526
Verlag: WW Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.6 cm 340 g
Abbildungen: 20 illustrations
Gewicht: 340
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of four acclaimed books on nature: Sprout Lands, Dirt, Oak, and Air. He is on the faculty of the New York Botanical Garden and lives in Brooklyn, New York.