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In a Patch of Fireweed A Biologist’s Life in the Field

Heinrich, Bernd
Heftet / 1991 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674445512
Publisert
1991-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
318 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Heinrich, Bernd

Biographical note

Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Man’s Owl, Ravens in Winter, and A Year in the Maine Woods, which won the 1995 Rutstrum Authors’ Award for Literary Excellence.

In a Patch of Fireweed A Biologist’s Life in the Field

Heinrich, Bernd
Heftet / 1991 / Engelsk
Heinrich, Bernd
Heftet / 1991 / Engelsk
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In this autobiographical reflection…[Heinrich] is intent on explaining why he became an insect physiologist and ecologist. In the process, he gives us a winning portrait of a fine scientific mind at work… There is a fine balance here between intellection and practical experience, speculation and discovery. This is a book that sends you right outdoors.

- Barry Lopez, New York Times Book Review

Heinrich’s stated purpose is to ‘tell about the natural links forged between one’s life and a life in science.’ He succeeds magnificently. His prose reflects Thoreau’s empathy with nature and the contemporary naturalist’s technical knowledge… This meticulously observed book will please scientists, but it will also delight non-scientist readers who wonder what, in this increasingly polymerized world, is truly human and truly natural.

- John Wilkes, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

[Heinrich’s] memoir explains, with great charm, how he came to devote his life to such projects as measuring the temperature of wasps and swindling gullible beetles with phony dungballs… [He is] delightful company.

The Atlantic

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In this charming volume, Heinrich combines biographical details with his economic-ecological approach to flora and fauna—embellishing the whole with precisionist pencil drawings… To be read and savored for the writing, the drawings, and the science.

Kirkus Reviews

Why would a grown man chase hornets with a thermometer, paint whirligig beetles bright red, or track elephants through the night to fill trash bags with their prodigious droppings? Some might say—to advance science. Bernd Heinrich says—because it’s fun.Heinrich, author of the much acclaimed Bumblebee Economics, has been playing in the wilds of one continent or another all his life. In the process, he has become one of the world’s foremost physiological ecologists. With In a Patch of Fireweed, he will undoubtedly become one of our foremost writers of popular science.Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist’s life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed into the process of discovery. For the reader, it is simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner workings of nature. Before his years of research in the woodlands and deserts of North America, the New Guinea highlands, and the plains of East Africa, Heinrich had a sense of the wild that few people in this century can know. He tells the whole story, from his refugee childhood hidden in a German forest, eating mice fried in boar fat, to his ongoing research in the woods surrounding his cabin in Maine.
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Part autobiography, part field-biology case study, this account of a scientist’s life and work is an opportunity to report not just results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed the process of discovery. For the reader, it is a chance to share the perceptions of a mind in tune with the inner workings of nature.
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Flight into the Forest Maine Tanganyika Bird Hunt The Thesis Hunt In a Patch of Fireweed Capitalist Bees Honeybee Swarms Africa Dung Beetles Whirligigs Caterpillar Diners Pit Trappers Bald-Faced Hunters Counting Yellowjackets Hunting Winter Moths Life on My Hill
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In this autobiographical reflection…[Heinrich] is intent on explaining why he became an insect physiologist and ecologist. In the process, he gives us a winning portrait of a fine scientific mind at work… There is a fine balance here between intellection and practical experience, speculation and discovery. This is a book that sends you right outdoors.

- Barry Lopez, New York Times Book Review

Heinrich’s stated purpose is to ‘tell about the natural links forged between one’s life and a life in science.’ He succeeds magnificently. His prose reflects Thoreau’s empathy with nature and the contemporary naturalist’s technical knowledge… This meticulously observed book will please scientists, but it will also delight non-scientist readers who wonder what, in this increasingly polymerized world, is truly human and truly natural.

- John Wilkes, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

[Heinrich’s] memoir explains, with great charm, how he came to devote his life to such projects as measuring the temperature of wasps and swindling gullible beetles with phony dungballs… [He is] delightful company.

The Atlantic

Se alle

In this charming volume, Heinrich combines biographical details with his economic-ecological approach to flora and fauna—embellishing the whole with precisionist pencil drawings… To be read and savored for the writing, the drawings, and the science.

Kirkus Reviews

Why would a grown man chase hornets with a thermometer, paint whirligig beetles bright red, or track elephants through the night to fill trash bags with their prodigious droppings? Some might say—to advance science. Bernd Heinrich says—because it’s fun.Heinrich, author of the much acclaimed Bumblebee Economics, has been playing in the wilds of one continent or another all his life. In the process, he has become one of the world’s foremost physiological ecologists. With In a Patch of Fireweed, he will undoubtedly become one of our foremost writers of popular science.Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist’s life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed into the process of discovery. For the reader, it is simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner workings of nature. Before his years of research in the woodlands and deserts of North America, the New Guinea highlands, and the plains of East Africa, Heinrich had a sense of the wild that few people in this century can know. He tells the whole story, from his refugee childhood hidden in a German forest, eating mice fried in boar fat, to his ongoing research in the woods surrounding his cabin in Maine.
Les mer
Part autobiography, part field-biology case study, this account of a scientist’s life and work is an opportunity to report not just results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed the process of discovery. For the reader, it is a chance to share the perceptions of a mind in tune with the inner workings of nature.
Les mer
Flight into the Forest Maine Tanganyika Bird Hunt The Thesis Hunt In a Patch of Fireweed Capitalist Bees Honeybee Swarms Africa Dung Beetles Whirligigs Caterpillar Diners Pit Trappers Bald-Faced Hunters Counting Yellowjackets Hunting Winter Moths Life on My Hill
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674445512
Publisert
1991-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
318 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Heinrich, Bernd

Biographical note

Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Man’s Owl, Ravens in Winter, and A Year in the Maine Woods, which won the 1995 Rutstrum Authors’ Award for Literary Excellence.

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