In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.
He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.