A landmark collected edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist, illuminating the marvels of biodiversity in a time of climate crisis and mass extinction.
One of the world's preeminent natural scientists, Edward O. Wilson
(1929-2021) grew up in south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle,
where he spent his boyhood exploring the region's forests and
swamps, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants--the latter to
become his lifelong specialty. The author of more than twenty
books, including the Pulitzer Prize winners On Human Nature (1979)
and The Ants (1991), Wilson was a professor at Harvard University
for more than forty years. In retirement he established the E.O.
Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, which advances the "Half-Earth
Project," Wilson's vision for a healed world of restored
wilderness.
David Quammen, one of America's leading science and nature writers,
is the author of more than a dozen books including The Song of the
Dodo- Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (1996),
Spillover- Animal Infection and the Next Human Pandemic (2012), and
The Tangled Tree- A Radical New History of Life (2018). He lives in
Bozeman, Montana.
"This new addition to the still expanding Library of America series (his is volume #340) presents not only the 'essential Wilson,' if you will, but also a superb introduction to some of the most significant discoveries and concepts in modern natural history—all presented in Prof. Wilson’s delightfully learned yet invitingly down-to-earth prose." —The Well-read Naturalist
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