![]() Quammen’s premise is precisely the opposite: we are nature, situated (obliviously) within complex, finely tuned ecosystems, which we all too blithely disrupt. People like me sometimes need our books ravaged by dogs (that most invasive of species) in order to puncture our notion of nature as something “out there,” beyond our insulated windows and caulked doors. Norton & Company, 2012 ) tracks the intrusion of zoonotic viruses into human populations. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic(W. I resurrected what I could, but I had to order a copy from the library. It looked like the work of Tiger, my omnivorous husky-terrier mix. ![]() But I returned later to a crime scene: the book splayed on the floor, its hard cover dismembered, and the first chapter merely shreds hanging from a naked spine. ![]() When the package containing David Quammen’s Spillover arrived on my doorstep one morning, I cracked the book from its cardboard shell and set it on my bed for evening reading. ![]()
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