David Gessner is a nature writer who's sick of nature and most nature writing.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bill Bryson talks with Jim Fleming about the personal stories of some of the people who made great scientific discoveries.
Donald Waller is a deer hunter and teaches at the University of Wisconsin. He tells Steve Paulson about the role hunting has played in the conservation movement.
He traveled the Amazon in search of drug-induced visionary experiences. That wild adventure led to a lifelong study of hallucinogens.
Christopher Woodward talks with Steve Paulson about the English mania for ruins and why they inspired the Romantic poets. Woodward’s book is “In Ruins.”
Edmund Morris has written three books about Teddy Roosevelt; his third, "Colonel Roosevelt" picks up the story after TR left the White House.
Choreogapher Bill T. Jones recommends Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees."
We hear geo-political expert Charles Emmerson talk with Steve Paulson about the future prospects for the Arctic.
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