EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION for this brilliant collection of Porter's large format color photos. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He has been called "one of the great science writers of all time." Gleick is also the author of Chaos: Making a New Science (1987), which is about chaos theory. (He was also a Harvard-trained engineer & M.D.!) James Gleick (born 1954) is an American author and historian of science. Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990), famed American nature photographer noted for his detailed and exquisite colour images of birds and landscapes. Near square quarto (11 1/4" x 10 3/8") light gray-blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting seaweed by Eliot Porter, profusely illustrated with select color photos by Porter, light gray endpapers, 125 pages + Sources for Further Reading.
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