Book Description
Tales of human history at world's end -- of the explorers, adventurers and settlers who have ventured to the Galápagos Islands since their discovery four centuries ago.
Author : John Woram
Publisher : Rockville Press, Inc.
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Galapagos Islands
ISBN : 0976933608
Tales of human history at world's end -- of the explorers, adventurers and settlers who have ventured to the Galápagos Islands since their discovery four centuries ago.
Author : Eric Simons
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1590205421
This entertaining combination of history, biography, and travel adventure is “a bracingly fresh portrait [of] Darwin . . . Nothing less than exhilarating” (Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma). One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had just hiked the mountains overlooking Beagle Channel, and found himself engrossed in Darwin’s surprisingly relatable account. Like Simons, Darwin had been in his mid-twenties when he traveled to South America in search of adventure. Inspired, Simons went further into South America, exploring the histories, legends, and people that had fascinated Darwin himself two centuries before. In Darwin Slept Here, Simons journeys in the footsteps of one of the fathers of modern science, introducing readers to “a refreshingly different Darwin: a twenty-something traveler fond of hurling iguanas into the sea and charging up any tall peak he could find” (Outside Magazine). “Hard to put Simons’ book down—lighthearted adventures that keep a reader wanting more.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Naturalists
ISBN :
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Richard P. Brennan
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Profiles the lives of eight physicists and details their contributions to the field especially during the twentieth century.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Author : Eric Simons
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1468307584
In this accessible study, a journalist examines the science, philosophy, and sociology behind being a sports fan. Sports fandom is either an aspect of a person's fundamental identity, or completely incomprehensible to those who aren’t fans at all. What is happening in our brains and bodies when we feel strong emotion while watching a game? How do sports fans resemble political junkies, and why do we form such a strong attachment to a sports team? Journalist Eric Simons presents in-depth research in an accessible and brilliant way, sure to interest readers of Malcolm Gladwell. Through reading the literature and attending neuroscience conferences, talking to fans, psychologists, and scientists, and working through his issues as part of a collaboration with the NPR science program RadioLab, Eric Simons hoped to find an answer that would explain why the attractive force of this relationship with treasured sports teams is so great that we can’t leave it. Praise for The Secret Lives of Sports Fans “Adroitly mixing research with feature reporting, Simons unveils some intriguing discoveries. . . . There’s a lot of science to digest, but Simons’s affable writing style—and his great eagerness to profile actual people, including himself—infuses the data with heart and soul.” —Publishers Weekly “An intriguing ride through “all the wondrous quirks and oddities in human nature.” —Kirkus Reviews