The Song Of The Dodo - Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (2001) best-selling author of The Alchemist

best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery

revealing the hidden history of everyday objects we often take for granted

this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature

Melody reminds us

and details of inscriptions and art that few have ever seen

The Song Of The Dodo - Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (2001) best-selling author of The AlchemistDavid Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo , is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far reaching in its message a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders. In The Song of the Dodo , we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of