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Splendid. . . . Logan delivers vast amounts of science with brevity and elegance. -- Nature Logan's meticulously researched and engagingly presented treatise is a breath of, well, fresh air. -- Carol Haggas - Booklist (starred review) Logan is an enjoyable companion with which to explore his subject. He is erudite and thoughtful, with an agreeable mix of the personal and scientific -- David B. Williams - Seattle Times [A] delightful Wunderkammer of a book. . . . Air is... a spore-world of essays, essaylets, mini-biographies, gossip, whispers, lists, prose-poems and asides. ...Cheery, chatty and compulsively curious, Mr. Logan is able to draw the reader into pretty much any subject... In this lovely book, Mr. Logan makes the air airy again. -- Robert Macfarlane - Wall Street Journal As with his earlier works . . . [Logan] celebrates the union of the inorganic and organic realms that nurture life. . . . Logan celebrates the atmosphere as a medium of communication-transmitting pheromones as well as sound, bird calls, music-and notes that the breath of life separates the living from the dead. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

[A] delightful Wunderkammer of a book... Air is... a spore-world of essays, essaylets, mini-biographies, gossip, whispers, lists, prose-poems and asides. ...Cheery, chatty and compulsively curious, Mr. Logan is able to draw the reader into pretty much any subject... In this lovely book, Mr. Logan makes the air airy again. -- Robert Macfarlane Logan is an enjoyable companion with which to explore his subject. He is erudite and thoughtful, with an agreeable mix of the personal and scientific -- David B. Williams Starred review. Logan's meticulously researched and engagingly presented treatise is a breath of, well, fresh air. -- Carol Haggas Splendid... Logan delivers vast amounts of science with brevity and elegance.

Splendid. . . . Logan delivers vast amounts of science with brevity and elegance.

[A] delightful Wunderkammer of a book... Air is... a spore-world of essays, essaylets, mini-biographies, gossip, whispers, lists, prose-poems and asides. ...Cheery, chatty and compulsively curious, Mr. Logan is able to draw the reader into pretty much any subject... In this lovely book, Mr. Logan makes the air airy again. -- Robert Macfarlane - Wall Street Journal Logan is an enjoyable companion with which to explore his subject. He is erudite and thoughtful, with an agreeable mix of the personal and scientific -- David B. Williams - Seattle Times Starred review. Logan's meticulously researched and engagingly presented treatise is a breath of, well, fresh air. -- Carol Haggas - Booklist Splendid... Logan delivers vast amounts of science with brevity and elegance. -- Nature

Splendid. . . . Logan delivers vast amounts of science with brevity and elegance. -- Nature Starred review. Logan's meticulously researched and engagingly presented treatise is a breath of, well, fresh air. -- Carol Haggas - Booklist Logan is an enjoyable companion with which to explore his subject. He is erudite and thoughtful, with an agreeable mix of the personal and scientific -- David B. Williams - Seattle Times [A] delightful Wunderkammer of a book. . . . Air is... a spore-world of essays, essaylets, mini-biographies, gossip, whispers, lists, prose-poems and asides. ...Cheery, chatty and compulsively curious, Mr. Logan is able to draw the reader into pretty much any subject... In this lovely book, Mr. Logan makes the air airy again. -- Robert Macfarlane - Wall Street Journal

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William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of four acclaimed books on nature: Sprout Lands, Dirt, Oak, and Air. He is on the faculty of the New York Botanical Garden and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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