The Best American
science & nature writing
Book Details
Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing.
Foreword
Introduction by Freeman Dyson
Section A. Visions of Space
Andrew Corsello
from Gentleman's Guarterly
Tom Wolfe
from The New York Times.
Steven Weinberg
from The New York Review of Books
Timothy Ferris
from National Geographic.
Timothy Ferris
from National Geographic
Section B. Neurology displacing molecular biology
Jonah Lehrer
from The New Yorker
Kathleen Mcgowan.
from Discover.
John Colapinto
from The New Yorker
Section C. Natural beauty
Gustave Axelson
from Minnesota Conservation Volunteer
Don Stap
from Living Bird.
Matt Ridley
from National Geographic
Tim Flannery.
from The New York Review of Books.
Kenneth Brower
from National Geographic
Jane Goodall
from National Geographic.
David Quammen
from National Geographic
Section D. The environment: Gloom and doom
Jim Carrier
from Orion
Felix Salmon
from Wired.
Dawn Stover
from Conservation Magazine
Elizabeth Kolbert
from The New Yorker.
Elizabeth Kolbert
from The New Yorker
Section E. The environment: Small blessings
Robert Kunzig
from National Geographic
Michael Specter
from The New Yorker.
Brian Boyd
from The American Scholar
Philip Gourevitch
from The New Yorker.
Section F. The environment: Big blessings
Richard Manning
from Onearth
Burkhard Bilger.
from The New Yorker
Evan Osnos
from The New Yorker
George Black
from Onearth
Contributors' Notes
Other Notable Science And Nature Writing of 2009
Other distinguished submissions on this topic, selected by the series editor Tim Folger.
A
Adam Levey
from Prevention, September.
Alan Burdick
from On Earth, Fall.
ALEC WILKINSON
from The New Yorker, March 30.
Andrew Curry
from Archaeology, May/June.
Anthony Aveni
from Archaeology, November/December.
B
Barry Lopez
from The American Scholar, Autumn.
Bill Sherwonit
from Isle, Fall.
Bucky Mcmahon
from Gentlemen's Quarterly, December.
C
Carl Zimmer
from November.
Charles Bowden
from Orion, November/December.
Charles Bowden
from National Geographic, October.
Chris Mooney
from Discover, June.
Christopher Solomon
from Outside, October.
Courtney Humphries
from Seedmagazine.com. April 14.
D
Daniel Goleman
from Tricycle, Summer.
Daniel Libit
from The Washington Post Magazine, April 5.
David Gargill
from Harper's Magazine, December.
David Noland
from Popular Mechanics, February.
David Wolman
from Outside, January.
Douglas Fox
from The Christian Science Monitor, December 2.
E
Elizabeth Kolbert
from National Geographic, April.
Erin Mccarthy
from Popular Mechanics, July.
F
Frans De Waal
from Discover, October.
G
Gary Taubes
from Discover, October.
H
H. Allen Orr
from The New York Review of Books, March 26.
Harrison H. Schmitt
from Scientific American, July.
Heather Pringle
from Archaeology, January/February.
I
J
Jerome Groopman
from The New Yorker, November 2.
Joel Achenbach
from National Geographic, August.
John Horgan
from San Francisco Panorama, December 8.
K
L
Lester R. Brown
from Scientific American, May.
Liza Mundy
from The Washington Post Magazine, April 26.
M
Marcia Angell
from The New York Review of Books, January 15.
Mark Dowie
from Orion, January/February.
Mark Slouka
from Harper's Magazine, September.
Mckenzie Funk
from National Geographic, May.
Michael J. Heckenberger
from Scientific American, October.
Michael Pollan
from National Geographic, September.
N
Natalie Angier
from National Geographic, August.
Neil H. Shubin
from Scientific American, January.
O
Oliver Broudy
from Men's Health, December.
Oliver Broudy
from Men's Health, July/August.
P
Q
R
Richard Lewontin
from The New York Review of Books, May 28.
S
Seth Lloyd
from Scientific American, October.
T
Taras Grescoe
from Best Life, May.
Tom McGrath
from Men's Health, January/February.
U
V
Verlyn Klinkenborg
from National Geographic, January.
Virginia Morrell
from Science, August 28.
W
William T. Vollmann
from San Francisco Panorama, December 8.
