Hungry Hollow

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Procyon lotor

   • A. K. Dewdney

   Pages 2-9

3. The Tippecanoe Sea

   • A. K. Dewdney

   Pages 10-16

4. Dianne sapiens

   • A. K. Dewdney

   Pages 17-22

5. The Hackberry

   • A. K. Dewdney

   Pages 23-29

6. The Ant’s Journey

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   Pages 30-39

7. Congress of Birds

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   Pages 40-48

8. Microperson

   • A. K. Dewdney

   Pages 49-60

9. Water

   • A. K. Dewdney

   Pages 61-67

10. Cymbella and the Hypotrich

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    Pages 68-76

11. On the Back of a Turtle

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    Pages 77-83

12. The Meadow

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    Pages 84-90

13. The Labyrinths

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    Pages 91-97

14. Prayer of the Mantis

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    Pages 98-103

15. The Hydraulic Plant

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    Pages 104-109

16. The Storm

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    Pages 110-116

17. Abundance

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    Pages 117-125

18. In the Forest

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    Pages 126-133

19. The Art of Decay

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    Pages 134-142

20. Bear

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    Pages 143-152

Hungry Hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. But like all such places, it is also a vast and intricate web of life with extensions that reach around the planet, back into prehistoric time, and within to a teeming, bizarre microscopic world. In dozens of short, wonderfully imaginative chapters, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to the denizens of this world. We encounter a hackberry tree whose branches perfectly reproduce the taxonomic Tree of Life, learn how it would look and feel to shrink by stages to the size of an amoeba while swimming in a river, watch a toad win the lottery, and see the world of Hungry Hollow from the viewpoint of bears, earthworms, and even stones. This is an excursion into natural history like no other.

• Meadow
• Planet
• forest
• lake
• plant
• tree
• water

"...220 pages explaining biological phenomena add up to a literary image of the magic of life." New Scientist

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