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By Bil Gilbert

ISBN-10: 0472114093

ISBN-13: 9780472114092

Bil Gilbert is one in every of America's such a lot preeminent and renowned essayists and nature writers. If you have ever opened a replica of Smithsonian, Audubon, or Sports Illustrated magazines, you have got most likely encounter a piece of writing by means of Gilbert. long ago 4 a long time, greater than 350 of his articles and essays have seemed in areas starting from Esquire to the New York Times.

Natural Coincidence collects a few of Bil Gilbert's best writing, masking a various diversity of topics that come with investigations of the biology of Tasmanian devils, the lives and loves of snapping turtles, and an appreciation of the intelligence of crows. completely suiting this eclectic selection of angles is Gilbert's exact writing variety, a mix of unprepossessing erudition, wit, and honesty that has been in comparison to Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac.

The assortment opens with a memoir of a adolescence Christmas in western Michigan, sooner than Gilbert's fascination with the flora and fauna drew him to extra unique locales like Tasmania, Alaska, Nova Scotia, and ny to put in writing approximately such themes because the javelina, bigfoot, buffalo, and ringtails.

"More than 50 years ago," writes Gilbert, "without a transparent idea approximately why or the place i used to be going, I trigger on a visit from Kalamazoo, Michigan. i'm nonetheless touring towards an unknown vacation spot. yet alongside the best way, even more for purposes of excellent success than considerate making plans, i've got met many exceptional beings and happenings. The essays showing in Natural Coincidence symbolize an try and describe a few of these wonders. i admire to imagine, or not less than faux, that the muse for and subject of this publication is gratitude."

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