Harry Thurston: 3 books

Winner of the Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Writing An authoritative and fascinating exploration of the natural history of the east coast of North America. The North Atlantic coast of North America -- commonly known as the Atlantic Coast -- extends from Newfoundland and Labrador...

THROUGHOUT the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the United States, though forming a political entity, were in everything but name divided into three separate nations, each one of which was quite unlike the other two. This difference sprang partly from the character of the population in...

In a part of Egypt so parched that decades might pass between rainstorms, amid a sea of sand, is a green island—Dakhleh, the “everlasting oasis”—that may contain the whole of human history. In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed science writer and journalist follows an international team...