Woodslane | Book - 9781608937530

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ISBN-13: 9781608937530
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: DOWN EAST BOOKS
By Margie Patlak
Price: AUD $33.99
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Local release date: 29/09/2021
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 288 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions [RGBP]The Earth: natural history general [WNW]Travel & holiday [WT]Northeastern & North Atlantic states [1KBBE]

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Author Biography
Google Preview: For award-winning science writer Margie Pitlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast opens a door to deeper ties and insights. Watching a striped monarch caterpillar transform into a chartreuse pendant dabbed with gold, she realizes the limits of life and what passes between generations. She explores the violent geologic collisions that thrust up and fractured Maine's mountains; digs into the latest scientific thinking on how animals navigate; reflects on the dizzy dance of plankton under the microscope and the dogfish heart that continued to beat while held in the palm of her hand. She looks at moose, fox, fishers, and the tides as well, and shares a chapter about cleaning up the Maine coast by kayak. These facets of the natural world speak a hidden language that is translated by scientific knowledge and reflection. Nature begins to speak about the nature of life.; Margie Patlak is an award-winning science writer who has written over two hundred articles about the environment, neuroscience, biomedical research, and technology for popular publications such as Discover magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many others; and her personal essays have appeared in a number of literary journals and newspapers. She has degress in Botany and Environmental Studies and divides her time between Philadelphia and Corea, Maine.; Google Preview content