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Authors: David Quammen
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D
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is a two-time National Magazine Award winner for his science essays and other work in
Outride
magazine. The author of three novels and several other books, including
Moruter of God
and
The Song of the Dodo,
he is the recipient of an Academy award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Montana.
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1
Those weekly vigils would continue for at least seven years, serving as a public meeting point for all stripe of Tucson citizens concerned with issues of U.S. involvement in Central America.
2
As of May 1984. All the numbers have continued to grow.
3
Abrams later became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, and eventually achieved somewhat wider renown in the Iran-Contra hearings.
4
Later news of sanctuary indictments and prosecutions appears in “The Desert Is a Mnemonic Device.”
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quammen, David, date.
Flight of the iguana: a sidelong view of science and nature / David Quammen.â1st Touchstone ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York: Delacorte Press, 1988.
“A Touchstone Book.”
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Natural historyâMiscellanea. 2. ZoologyâMiscellanea. I. Title.
[QH45.5.Q358 1998]
508-dc21 97-30332 CIP
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83626-3 (eBook)
ISBN-10: 0-684-83626-2