World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Cosmology devoid of any of those

devoid of any of those apparatuses-the baffling mirror

looks for mysteries

Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom

Though fairies in older tales usually flew on the backs of birds or on twigs used like witch's brooms

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Cosmology devoid of any of thoseFrom beloved, award winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of