The best of his books, The Song of the Dodo, renders the relatively arcane field of island biogeography as gripping as a thriller. He also adds a powerful measure of moral witness: ecological destruction is greatly to blame for our current peril.e, David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane. Quammen, a gifted science writer, combines physical and intellectual adventure.
It makes clear that animal diseases are inseparable from us because we are inseparable from the natural world., David Quammen's absorbing, lively and, yes, occasionally gory trek through the animal origins of emerging human diseases., David Quammen one of that rare breed of science journalists who blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling., eoeThat hasn't won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment.Timely and terrifying. Fascinating and terrifying, Spillover is a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all., delivers news from the front lines of public health. He also adds a powerful measure of moral witness: ecological destruction is greatly to blame for our current peril., Quammen balances the technical terms with gorily gripping description and scenes from his own fearless journeys.But his real gift is his writing, with its nice balance of reverence and whimsy., David Quammen has done it again. By explaining this growing trend, Quammen not only provides a warning about the diseases we will face in the future, he also causes us to reflect on our place as humans in the earth's ecosystem., Starred review.a frightening but critically important book for anyone interested in learning about the prospects of the world's next major pandemic., David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane., That hasn't won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment.Timely and terrifying.
David Quammen takes us on a quest to understand AIDS, Ebola, and other diseases that share a frightening commonality: they all jumped from wild animals to humans. Quammen does a beautiful job of showing how so much of scientific knowledge is provisional, with great unknowns about infectious diseases., This is a frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.
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