More Than Meets the Eye - Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine

For award-winning science writer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast opens a door to deeper ties and insights. Watching a striped monarch caterpillar transform into a chartreuse pendant dabbed with gold, she realizes the limits of life and what is passed between generations. Tides show how fleeting time is, and clouds and weather reveal greater forces that take away all illusions of control. She also explores the continental collisions that thrust up and fractured Maine's mountains; digs into the latest scientific thinking on how animals navigate; and exults in the dizzy dance of plankton under the microscope. Even moose, fox, and fishers reveal more than meets the eye. These facets of the natural world speak a hidden language Patlak translates with her scientific knowledge and reflection. Nature begins to speak about the nature of life.

About the author

Margie Patlak is an award-winning science writer who has written over two hundred
articles about the environment, neuroscience, biomedical research, and technology for
popular publications such as Discover magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles
Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many others; and her personal essays have
appeared in a number of literary journals and newspapers. She has degress in Botany and
Environmental Studies and divides her time between Philadelphia and Corea, Maine.

Product details

• Authors: Margie Patlak, Patlak Margie
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2021
• EAN: 9781608937530
• ISBN: 978-1-60893-753-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Travel & holiday, Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions, Coastlines, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: New England