{"product_id":"before-the-echo-essays-on-nature-paperback","title":"Before the Echo: Essays on Nature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePete Dunne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The natural world is a lot like a game of musical chairs,\" observes Pete Dunne. \"Everywhere you turn, everywhere you go, there are places where living things sit down, niches that support their specific needs. But just as in musical chairs, there aren't enough places to go around. Our species keeps removing them-forcing other creatures to leave the game.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these twenty-nine essays, one of America's top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world. Writing to infuse others with a sense of the richness and diversity that nature holds, Pete Dunne ranges over topics from the wonder of the year's first snowfall to the lost art of stargazing to the mysterious forces that impel people to hunt-and not to hunt. Running like a thread through all the essays is Dunne's desire to preserve all that is \"natural\" in nature, to stop our unthinking destruction of wild places and wild creatures before we humans find ourselves with \"the last chair, in an empty room\" on an impoverished earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePete Dunne is a regular columnist for the New Jersey edition of the Sunday \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where most of these essays first appeared. He is Director of the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May Point, New Jersey. A widely published writer on birding, he is also the author of \u003ci\u003eTales of a Low-Rent Birder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMore Tales of a Low-Rent Birder\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by UT Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45308561948774,"sku":"9780292735644","price":30.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dXJZajJ2R2V4RGVFV1FiaGMyZVJEQT09.webp?v=1774180237","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/before-the-echo-essays-on-nature-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}