Book description
Nature's Chaos presents 80-100 colour photographs by Eliot Porter, each highlighting a different element of his lifelong fascination with what he calls the jumble and disorder in nature.
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1 author picked Nature's Chaos as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I admire James Gleick’s Chaos. Who doesn’t? It’s a landmark book, a masterpiece of science writing. But let’s be real: it’s not exactly a beach read, is it? If Chaos is a complex aged wine, then this book is a simple autumn cider: a photographic collage of nature’s fractals, sweetened with a splash of Gleick’s lyrical prose.
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