With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors its long and distinguished history of publishing the best writers in these fields. David Quammen, together with series editor Burkhard Bilger, has assembled a remarkable group of writers whose selections appeared in periodicals from National Geographic, Science, and The New Yorker to Puerto Del Sol and Doubletake. Among the acclaimed writers represented in this volume are Richard Preston, John McPhee, Oliver Sacks, and Wendell Berry.
