Name: hungry hollow
SKU: 3417606
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Author: dewdney
ISBN: 9780387984155

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Physical Book

Publisher

Springer

Author

dewdney

Language

English

Pages

233

ISBN

0387984151

ISBN13

9780387984155

Synopsis "hungry hollow"

hungry hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the rocky mountains. but like all such places, it is also a vast and intricate web of life with extensions that reach around the planet, back into prehistoric time, and within to a teeming, bizarre microscopic world. in dozens of short, wonderfully imaginative chapters, a.k. dewdney introduces us to the denizens of this world. we encounter a hackberry tree whose branches perfectly reproduce the taxonomic tree of life, learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba while swimming in a river, watch a toad win the lottery, and see the world of hungry hollow from the viewpoint of bears, earthworms, and even stones. this is an excursion into natural history like no other.