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The Boilerplate Rhino
Nature in the Eye of the Beholder  
By David Quammen
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction


I. ROADKILL ON THE HIGHWAY OF TIME

Rattlesnake Passion
The Narcotic of Empire
Hard Parts


II. DUBIOUS CERTITUDES, DAUNTLESS THEORIES

Certainty and Doubt in Baja
Phobia and Philia
Who Swims with the Tuna
Tropical Passengers
Spatula Theory
The Great Stinking Clue
The Dope on Eggs


III. FLESH OR FOWL OR WHAT?

The Cats That Fly by Themselves
Local Bird Makes Good
One Man's Meat
Either or Neither


IV. NEAR SIGHT

Beast in the Mirror
Palpating the Tumor
Rethinking the Lawn
Half-Blinded Poets and Birds
Time-and-Motion Study


V. TRICKS OF THE LIGHT

The Boilerplate Rhino
Limelight
Gardening on Mars
Impersonating Henry Thoreau
God's Weakness for Beetles
Limits of Vision


Bibliography
Index