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Into the Porcupine Cave William Warner
National Geographic 0792274555 / 9780792274551 1st Edition - April 1999 Hardcover, DJ
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beautiful Swimmers now recounts his own nature-centered adventures around the globe, from New England to Tierra del Fuego to the jungles of Guatemala; elegant, low-profile, life-shaping events in the outdoors, from naturalist Warner.
Collected here in ten essays are just the type of experiences that in their undramatic way quietly become the stuff of memory. For Warner, these indelible episodes took place in nature, and the why of this is explained in a moving introductory piece on his first forays into the wild under the tutelage of his irascible step-grandfather, who served in lieu of a father. The incidents cum adventures include digging for fossils in central Utah with a friend and a professor from Princeton in 1941 (said friend then shipping out after Pearl Harbor and dying in the Pacific), and hearing the thunderous slap of orcas flukes reverberate through the Patagonian hills. During the same war that killed his friend, he first viewed a coral reef community through a pair of Hawaiian spear-fishing goggles made of wood and glass and an inner tube, and began asking all the right questions: Why all the color? Why all the variety? Why does this phenomenon touch me so? Some of the locales are impossibly remote or just plain difficult to get to - Ellesmere Island, the Virginia barrier islands - while other places ensnare him in their force field, such as the Dry Tortugas, where amid the noddies and frigates and boobies of every persuasion a merlin dives and plucks a warbler from the air within inches of his ear. These essays have an equal understated beauty and display the same seasoned understanding of the natural world.
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