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6%OFFWilliam Bryant Logan - Air: The Restless Shaper of the World - 9780393345391 - V9780393345391
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Air: The Restless Shaper of the World

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Description for Air: The Restless Shaper of the World Paperback. The author of Dirt and Oak brings to life this quickest, most sustaining, most communicative element of the earth. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 340.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393345391
SKU
V9780393345391
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About William Bryant Logan
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.

Reviews for Air: The Restless Shaper of the World
" As with his earlier works . . . [Logan] celebrates the union of the inorganic and organic realms that nurture life. . . . Logan celebrates the atmosphere as a medium of communication—transmitting pheromones as well as sound, bird calls, music—and notes that the breath of life separates the living from the dead. "
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