David Quammen
Goodreads Author
Born
Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States
Genre
Member Since
June 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/davidquammen
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
54 editions
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2012
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
27 editions
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1996
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
25 editions
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2018
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
25 editions
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2006
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
22 editions
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2003
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
21 editions
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2014
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
7 editions
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1988
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
11 editions
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1985
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
6 editions
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2015
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
8 editions
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2000
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
― The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
― The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the unintended results of things we are doing. They reflect the convergence of two forms of crisis on our planet. The first crisis is ecological, the second is medical.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
“Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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"July is a blind date with summer."
Hal Borland
Time to pick our next summer reads :)
Hal Borland
Time to pick our next summer reads :)
Mystery/ Thriller
In the Woods by Tana French
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
The Dry by Jane Harper



Young Adult/ LGBT
Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson
Malice by Heather Walter
Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman



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