false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179847421m/962851.jpg 962851 1 <div><b>A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?</b><br><br>Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; disruptive European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, are infiltrating aquatic ecosystems across the United States; parasitic flies from the U.S. prey on Darwin's finches in the Galapagos. Predatory American jellyfish in Russia; toxic Japanese plankton in Australia; Burmese pythons in the Everglades-biologists refer fearfully to "the homogenization of the world" as alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence. Never mind bulldozers and pesticides: the fastest-growing threat to biological diversity may be nature itself.<br><br><i>Out of Eden</i> is a journey through this strange and shifting landscape. The author tours the front lines of ecological invasion--in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rainforests, through underground lava tubes, on the deck of an Alaska-bound oil tanker--in the company of world-class scientists. Wry and reflective, animated and richly reported, <i>Out of Eden</i> is a search both for scientific answers and for ecological authenticity.<br></div> 947752 18 5 2005 Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion total:60|5:6|4:28|3:20|2:6|1:0| 60 214 91 11 962851 0374219737 9780374219734 60 11 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179847421m/962851.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962851.Out_of_Eden_An_Odyssey_of_Ecological_Invasion 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 11 20:33:44 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 20:33:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 962851 0374219737 9780374219734 60 11 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179847421m/962851.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962851.Out_of_Eden_An_Odyssey_of_Ecological_Invasion 4 0 false Fri May 30 23:38:30 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 00:00:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 962851 0374219737 9780374219734 60 11 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179847421m/962851.jpg 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