Book features the best of Outside Magazine's "The Wild File", answering such questions as "Why do geese fly in a V formation.
- Edited by Hampton Sides
- Softcover; 217 pages; illustrations
- Outside Books; copyright 2001
- Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection ranges widely from the gothic to the comic to the cosmic
- Includes the questions about the strange doings of the natural world that most of us stopped asking when we were 8-years old
Answers such questions as:
- Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're gnawing down?
- What good are goosebumps?
- Why do llamas spit?
- How do penguins keep their feet from freezing?
- Can a sailboat go faster than the wind?
Made in USA.
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