Eager av Ben Goldfarb

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<p><strong>WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award <br/></strong></p><p><strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong><strong> ¿50 Notable Works of Nonfiction¿</strong></p><p><strong><em>Science News</em></strong><strong> ¿Favorite Science Books of 2018¿</strong></p><p><strong><em>Booklist</em></strong><strong> ¿Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018¿</strong></p><p><strong>"A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents¿. A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.¿¿<em>The Washington Post</em></strong></p><p>In <em>Eager</em>, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America¿s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coa