Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World

by Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margulis

Explores the world of microorganisms by way of drawings and photographs, providing a framework for viewing life in the microcosm

Hardcover

First published March 1, 1988

About the author

Dorion Sagan (born 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American science writer, essayist, and theorist. He has written and co-authored many books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, most recently The Sciences of Avatar: from Anthropology to Xenology and Death and Sex, which won first place at the 2010 New York Book Show in the general trade nonfiction category. His Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.

A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has been a Humana Scholar at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and received an Educational Press Association of America Excellence in Educational Journalism Award for “The Riddle of Sex,” which appeared in The Science Teacher. His Death and Sex, a two-in-one hardcover published by Chelsea Green, won the 2010 New York Book Show in the competitive general trade nonfiction category. His current interests include philosophy and science fiction.

Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis. His younger brother is Jeremy Sagan and his half-brother is Nick Sagan.

Reviews

[Maria Andrade · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fascinating look at the small world of the subvisible world of bacterias, viruses, protoctists, and fungi. It was a bit academic in nature but an amazing look at the life of the tiny, intelligent world around us.

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Parts of it are a little outdated by now, but it's still a pleasure to read this tour of the microbial world written with so much love and joy.