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<p><P>Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels and poisonous foreign toads plague Australia; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of the homogenization of the world. Never mind bulldozers and pesticides&#58; the fastestgrowing threat to biological diversity may be nature itself. <p><i></i><i></i> <p><i>Out of Eden </i>is a dazzling personal journey through this strange and shifting landscape. Alan Burdick tours the front lines of ecological invasion in the company of world-class scientists&#58; in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rain forests, aboard an Alaska-bound oil tanker, inside a spacecraft-assembly facility at NASA. Wry and reflective, animated and provocative, <i>Out of </

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Author

Burdick, Alan

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374219734

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Biology, Science

Rating

3.78 / 5 (266 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14