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Hungry Hollow
The Story of a Natural Place
by A. K. Dewdney
ISBN: 0387984151
ISBN-13: 9780387984155
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 233
Publisher's Notes
Dewdney takes us on a guided journey through Hungry Hollow's many dimensions of time and space - a multifaceted prism through which its present and prehistory, and its worlds large and small, are all refracted. We meet many plants, animals, fungi, and other life forms, guided sometimes by the raccoon called Lotor, sometimes by the biologist Dianne, who is just coming to terms with the real world of biological diversity. We encounter a Hackberry tree whose branches reproduce the taxonomic tree of life; learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba; watch a toad win the survival lottery; and see the world of Hungry Hollow from the viewpoint of plants, earthworms, rotifers, and even stones. We also learn about the geological forces that molded North America, the kingdoms of life, surface tension, genetics, the strange sex lives of diatoms and bacteria, and how everything is eventually recycled into the molecular building blocks of nature.
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New York, New York:: Copernicus / Springer-Verlag,. 1998.. First American edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xiv + 232 pages, blue quarter cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with an inscription from the previous owner on the front endpaper. In a near fine dust jacket, with light edge wear, price clipped. ( more information) Offered by Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop (United States)
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New York, NY: Copernicus Books, 1998. Hardcover, new. Illustrated. Dramatizes the life and death struggle between humans and other species in the natural world. Bibliography 233 pages. ( more information) Offered by M Hofferber Books (United States)
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Copernics, 1998. 233 pages, illustrated, A guided journey through Hungry Hollow's many dimensions of time and space - a multifaceted prism through which its present and prehistory, and its worlds large and small, are all refracted.. Hard Back. Very Good/Good. ( more information) Offered by Moody Books Inc (United States)
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New York: Copernicus. Hardcover. 1998. 1st Edition. 8vo . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. A natural history tour through an imaginary place called Hungry Hollow, which stands in a wider sense for all natural places which find themselves under increasing threat from humanity . ( more information) Offered by Chris Hartmann, Bookseller (United States)
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Springer. Hardcover. 0387984151 Hungry Hollow is a creek in a forseets east of the Rocky Mountains. But like all such places, it is also a vast and intricate web of life with extensions that reach around the planet. This is an excursion into natural history like no other. xiv, 233p. 25 cm illustrated. . Very Good. 1998. First Edition. ( more information) Offered by M Godding Ltd (United Kingdom)
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