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 The Tapir's
Morning Bath
Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest
By Elizabeth Royte
Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover
$24.94, 328 pages
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Softcover (pictured)
$14.00, 336 pages
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Synopsis
Praise:
Solicited
E.O. Wilson and Bill McKibben blurbed the book.
Unsolicited
The New York Times Book Review named Tapir a Notable Book of 2001 and said, "Royte is a remarkable writer. Her book is a charmer; I loved it." |
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Citations
"On Language," New York Times Magazine, William Safire, August 7, 2005: "Other lexies have their eyes on the two words (that are sometimes written as one). Joe Pickett, executive editor of the American Heritage Dictionary, supplies us with ''Tapir's Morning Bath,'' a 2002 nature book by Elizabeth Royte: ''Whalers took out whales, plankton proliferated, pollack boomed, perch and herring went bust, seals and sea lions followed, and so orcas switched their diet to otter.'' Then comes a nice boosting: 'As the disappearing otter has a back story, so too does it have a front story, a cascade of effects rippling into the future.' "
Meet the beasts
Starring ants, bats, spiny rats ...
Meet the scientists
The Maverick, the Toolmaker, the Pigtailed Lepidopterist ...
The mold and cockroach page
Over and beyond the subliminal fear threshhold
Peter Arkle Goes Leafnose Bats
A cartoon from the canopy
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Elizabeth Royte's Bottlemania:
How Water Went on Sale
and Why We Bought It.
Also by Elizabeth Royte.
[Excerpt from the book]
The Zygote That Ate Me
"You're not digging around in the dirt, are you?" the nurse practitioner asked.
"Yes, I am."
She made a note. "Well, you're not touching any animals, are you?"
"Yes, I am."
"What kind of animals?"
"Spiny rats, and sometimes bats." I thought for a few seconds. "I also collect monkey fecal samples."
She shook her head and scowled. "You wear gloves, don't you?"
"I will," I said soberly.
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[Original essay from the author]
Uninvited Margaret Mead lived among her study subjects, but it's hard to imagine her lifting a coconut punch with the Solomon Islanders at the end of a 9-to-5 day of anthropology. When I first arrived on Barro Colorado Island, I didn't expect an open-armed welcome, but I was not prepared for the hostility of residents who wanted nothing to do with a writer.
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