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Natural history

The Wisdom of Rats

From “Contested Ground,” which appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Orion. Trinity, a collaboration between Bowden and photographer Michael P. Berman, was published last October by University of Texas…

Useful illusions

by Durs Grünbein,Translated by Daniel Slager,

Readings

by Bill Burns,

Observations and experiments

by Annie Dillard,

Elephants of the sea

by William Beebe,

A week in paradise

by William Beebe,

Monsters of the swamp

by Archibald Hamilton Rutledge,

Mount Lololokwi the unknown

by Edmund Heller,

Climbing the shoulders of Atlas

by Charles Wellington Furlong,

Camps in China’s tropics

by Roy Chapman Andrews,

The frontier of the forbidden land