National Book Award Finalist The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and...

"The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions" ist ein faszinierendes, tiefgründiges und zugleich alarmierendes Werk von David Quammen. Das Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen der Fragmentierung und des Verlusts von...

"Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has...

"The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions" von David Quammen ist ein Sachbuch, das sich mit der Wissenschaft der Inselbiogeographie befasst und deren Bedeutung für das Verständnis von Artenvielfalt und...

The Tangled Tree von Quammen, David

In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon-in which a new pathogen comes to humans from...

A gripping and timely book about the transmission of highly dangerous diseases from animal to human populations. 'A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story' Walter Isaacson von...

The Tangled Tree von Quammen, David

The real story of AIDS-how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people-is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises...

Interweaving personal observation, scientific theory, and history, this beautifully written book takes the reader on a globe-spanning tour of wild places and ideas. "An epic adventure of the mind and spirit."--Robert Kanigel, The New...

From 1981 to 1996, Quammen recounted personal tales of adventure and wry observations in his popular "Natural Acts" column in "Outside" magazine. "The Boilerplate Rhino" brings together 25 of his best pieces, offering readers the...

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world" (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our...