David Quammen's Books
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The Boilerplate RhinoIn 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to...Read More -
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Wild Thoughts from Wild PlacesIn Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature...Read More
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Song of the DodoDavid Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in...Read More
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Sun Herald, April 10, 2013
...the dining room table; the two books (a copy of the Koran and a meditation on Darwin by David Quammen) that make up the Qs: To move them, to fit each title onto the shelves, was to engage with my library in the most concrete sense. In his essay...
New York Review of Books, April 5, 2013
...and probably a little less massive than our livestock—herded, fattened, and medically dosed just for us. Or, as David Quammen puts it in his masterful new book : we are an “outbreak,” a species that has undergone a “vast, sudden population...
New York Times, April 5, 2013
...Listen to previous podcasts from the Book Review. This week in The New York Times Book Review, David Quammen reviews Monte Reel’s “Between Man and Beast,” the story of the 19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who returned from Africa with...
New York Times, April 5, 2013
...In this week, David Quammen notes that part of what made the discovery of gorillas so sensational in the Victorian era was that they were too similar to humans for comfort. As for whether...
New York Times, April 4, 2013
...public discourse. Suddenly it was the gorilla in the room a synecdoche, not just a metaphor. 1 2 David Quammen’s most recent book is “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic...
Metro.co.uk, March 27, 2013
...victim himself, who had to assume to alias Joseph Anton. Spillover: Animal Infections And The Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen Everything you never wanted to know about the transfer of animal diseases to humans (from Aids to Ebola), written by...
Entertainment Weekly Online, March 1, 2013
...Coll. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Jim Holt. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story David Quammen. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic POETRY Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys by D.A....
St. Petersburg Times, January 19, 2013
...Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power; Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story; David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic; Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and...
Huffington Post, January 17, 2013
...of the scientists and authors he interviews, and then stepping out of the way. Listen to him interview David Quammen about his latest nonfiction thriller: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic . 2.Jeff Kline interviews business...
Wired News, January 16, 2013
...creating a new infectious age. It remains essential reading, with astounding prescience. Warm from the presses, meanwhile, comes David Quammen’s —one of the year’s best books of any kind. This rich, engrossing work entrances as much with its...
Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2013
...Mumbai Undercity," along with Steve Coll's "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power," Jim Holt's David Quammen's "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" and Andrew Solomon's "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...
Pottsdown Mercury, January 15, 2013
...Far from the Tree,” Steve Coll’s “Private Empire,” Jim Holt’s “Why Does the World Exist?” and David Quammen’s “Spillover.” In biography the finalists were Caro, Tom Reiss’ “The Black Count,” Lisa Cohen’s “All We Know,”...
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2013
...Far From the Tree, Steve Coll's Private Empire, Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist?, and David Quammen's Spillover. In biography, the finalists were Caro, Tom Reiss' The Black Count, Lisa Cohen's All We Know, Lisa Jarnot's Robert Duncan, the...
Individual.com, January 15, 2013
...Coll, "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power"; Jim Holt, "Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story"; David Quammen, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic"; Andrew Solomon, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children,...
