History, philosophy, love, and friendship blend in this fictional journey through the science of ecology. Jewel learns to love ecology during its formative years at Chicago and pursues it and its scientists to Urbana, New Haven, and Vermont. Danny, her nephew, picks up her journey a generation later at Ithaca, where the quiet science is well along its subversive path into society. Along the way, there is a secret that needs to unravel. Real ecologists...