World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Cosmology that it’s hard to believe

that it’s hard to believe that she

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

Packaged in a beautiful slipcase

and wonder that await us all

Accurate range maps

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Cosmology that it’s hard to believeFrom 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