Neptune's Ark : From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

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Neptune's Ark : From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

Wallace, David Rains/ Kirkland, Ken (ILT)

ウェブストア価格 ¥5,956（本体¥5,415）
University of California Press（2008/09発売）
外貨定価 US$ 26.95
ポイント 54pt

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.／サイズ 25 line illus.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780520258143
DDC分類 591.77

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Illustrated by Ken Kirkland. "Stands as a sweeping tribute to nature's inventiveness, which has always been most spectacularly on display in the seas." Doublas Chadwick, author of The Grandest of Lives.

Full Description

"Neptune's Ark" illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning 500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast of western North America. In an engaging narrative that artfully blends elements of science, history, folklore, and personal observation, renowned naturalist David Rains Wallace reveals a marvelous diversity of creatures, not only modern ones, but those from the far prehistoric past.Mysterious forms have abounded - from giant sea cows, oyster bears, and flightless toothed birds to the orcas, elephant seals, and sea otters of modern times. Wallace tells a story about evolution, as well as a tale of the storms, scurvy, and shipwrecks that plagued the coast's explorers, naturalists, and scientists, many of whom led turbulent or tragic lives, with themes reflected in the wonder and danger of the coast itself. "Neptune's Ark" is full of vivid characters - from explorers like Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook, to pioneer naturalists, including Georg Steller and Charles Scammon, to early paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, and to recent scientists and ecological visionaries.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. Steller's Sea Ape 1 / Reefs in the Desert 2 / Amphibious Ambiguities 3 / Bird Teeth and Reptile Necks 4 / Tail Tales 5 / Cope's Elusive Ophidians 6 / Hooves into Flippers 7 / Marsh's Deceptive Desmostylians 8 / Emlong's Whale 9 / Paws into Flippers 10 / Sea Cows and Oyster Bears 11 / The Long, Warm Summer 12 / Emptying Bays 13 / Punctuated Pinnipeds and Darwinian Sirenians 14 / Advent of Autumn 15 / Ice Age Invasions 16 / Hands into Paddles 17 / Pileated Woodpecker's Boat 18 / The End of the Earth 19 / An Industrial Interlude 20 / Intimations of Communication Epilogue. The Old Man of the Sea Notes Bibliography Index