David Quammen Audio Books

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases....

David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world.

Science writer David Quammen puts the Coronavirus into perspective.

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic-a "luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time.

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore....

Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions, said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts.

A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it.

A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.