WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Washington Post -50 Notable Works of Nonfiction-
Science News -Favorite Science Books of 2018-
Booklist -Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018-
"A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents-. A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.--The Washington Post
In Eager, 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
