But for every lion, expect a lamb. Stuffed front and back with puffs from
big-name ecologists, Yvonne Baskin’s The Work of Nature is dull in a way that
can only be achieved by a certain sort of highly-trained American science
writer. Surprise, surprise, nature is good for us. “Bringing ecology to life”?
It makes you want to go and set fire to something. Published by Island Press,
$25, ISBN 1 55963 519 3.
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