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bup
Mar 26, 2018 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: audiobook, 2018
The Dewey Decimal system puts this in the 500's - hard science. Sure, yeah, I guess. It struck me more as Carson's love letter to the several ecosystems on the American Atlantic coast.

And Carson shows her love by enumerating and describing in grad-student field-notes-level detail all the species found there.

It's all important, and good, stuff, but came across as several laundry lists to me.
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