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Also by Edward O. Wilson:

Half-Earth, March 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Meaning of Human Existence, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
A Window on Eternity, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Letters To A Young Scientist, April 2013
Hardcover
Anthill, April 2010
Hardcover
The Superorganism, November 2008
Hardcover
The Creation, September 2006
Hardcover

A Window on Eternity
Edward O. Wilson

A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park

Simon & Schuster
May 2014
On Sale: April 22, 2014
176 pages
ISBN: 1476747415
EAN: 9781476747415
Kindle: B00DPM7T4A
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Photography

A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back to its original state. Edward O. Wilson’s personal, luminous description of the wonders of Gorongosa is beautifully complemented by Piotr Naskrecki’s extraordinary photographs of the park’s exquisite natural beauty. A bonus DVD of Academy Award–winning director Jessica Yu’s documentary, The Guide, is also included with the book.

Wilson takes readers to the summit of Mount Gorongosa, sacred to the local people and the park’s vital watershed. From the forests of the mountain he brings us to the deep gorges on the edge of the Rift Valley, previously unexplored by biologists, to search for new species and assess their ancient origins. He describes amazing animal encounters from huge colonies of agricultural termites to spe­cialized raider ants that feed on them to giant spi­ders, a battle between an eagle and a black mamba, “conversations” with traumatized elephants that survived the slaughter of the park’s large animals, and more. He pleads for Gorongosa—and other wild places—to be allowed to exist and evolve in its time­less way uninterrupted into the future.

As he examines the near destruction and rebirth of Gorongosa, Wilson analyzes the balance of nature, which, he observes, teeters on a razor’s edge. Loss of even a single species can have serious ramifications throughout an ecosystem, and yet we are carelessly destroying complex biodiverse ecosystems with unknown consequences. The wildlands in which these ecosystems flourish gave birth to humanity, and it is this natural world, still evolving, that may outlast us and become our leg­acy, our window on eternity.

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