by David Quammen | Dec 6, 2016 | Montana
December 6, 2016. BOHART RANCH, BRIDGER MTS. I wish I had a photo of tonight’s waxing crescent moon. Go out and look at it. That’s the warm reflected winter luminescence that guided me out of the modest backcountry of...
by David Quammen | Sep 26, 2016 | Yellowstone
October 24, 2016 It’s book-tour season for me again—this time on behalf of “Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart,” my new book (in collaboration with a team of wonderful photographers), which is just out. It’s an expanded version...
by David Quammen | Jan 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
from National Geographic online Scary new viruses emerge abruptly in our modern world, provoking stark headlines and demands for bold government action—but in most cases the causes are complex and have developed, unnoticed, over years or decades. That’s true again for...
by David Quammen | Jan 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Termas del Flaco is a tiny hot springs resort at the end of a long gravel road leading eastward into the Chilean Andes, eighty kilometers southeast of a town called San Fernando. The road is one-lane and dicey, as it follows the tumbling Tinguiririca River upstream,...
by David Quammen | Jun 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
One year ago at this time, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was just emerging from a lull, a falsely reassuring hiatus, like the “phony war” that settled over Europe in 1939, after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. During early April, 2014, there was optimism among...
