More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine
- ISBN-10
- 1608937542
- ISBN-13
- 9781608937547
- Series
- More Than Meets the Eye
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-05-01
- Publisher
- Down East Books
- Author
- Margie Patlak
Description
For award-winning science writer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast opens a door to deeper ties and insights. Watching a striped monarch caterpillar transform into a chartreuse pendant dabbed with gold, she realizes the limits of life and what is passed between generations. Tides show how fleeting time is, and clouds and weather reveal greater forces that take away all illusions of control. She also explores the continental collisions that thrust up and fractured Maine’s mountains; digs into the latest scientific thinking on how animals navigate; and exults in the dizzy dance of plankton under the microscope. Even moose, fox, and fishers reveal more than meets the eye.These facets of the natural world speak a hidden language Patlak translates with her scientific knowledge and reflection. Nature begins to speak about the nature of life.
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