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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Belknap Press; Reprint edition (October 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674061624
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674061620
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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50 of 54 people found the following review helpful By Amazon Customer on May 21, 2002
Format: Hardcover
That's how one review in the media described this - the tenth and final collection of Gould's essays written for Natural History. Another commented on the fact that Gould knew when to move on - to give up writing scientific essays, even though he is widely recognized as being the first to "popularize" science using this format. Most scientists avoid writing essays, largely they argue, because it's inappropriate for science. You wouldn't be too far off however if you thought that perhaps it's also because Gould had already mastered the genre, and absolutely no scientist wishes to come second to Gould. If you know only one thing about the "science wars" it's a good bet it's you know that mentioning the name Stephen Jay Gould to many scientists is akin to waving a red flag at a bull.
Much of science reading will be that much duller now. Gould's death from cancer earlier this week makes this last group of 30 essays truly his final collection. It's thus likely to be much more popular that many previous ones. All the more so when you start reading and see here that Gould is much more personal, ranges further and deeper with his philosophical thinking, and refreshingly is less polemical in his views. Although on this last point in an essay on the Human Genome Project and its revelation that our genome contains only about a third of the number of genes predicted, Gould takes his mandatory swipe at the "Dawkinsian" scientists and says that the HGP shows "the failure of reductionism".
Another essay I enjoyed is Gould's discussion of recent feathered dinosaur finds and their significance to understanding the origins of flight.
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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful By guy richardson on May 20, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I'm crying as I write this because Steve Gould just died of cancer, and he was a friend. No, I never met him, but I've read his essays for years and he was a brilliant man who wrote to you as if you were smart, too, but you just didn't know the inside terminology. This is the last book of his collected science essays from Natural History magazine, but his subjects are much wider than science. There's a lot of biology here, and a lot of why you should care about biology, but the most important thing is that this book -- like all of Steve's books -- is like listening to a friend who's fascinating. Each chapter here was a Natural History column and the subjects range from baseball to evolution. I know this is rambling on and I'm sorry. I will miss him, my smart friend Steve. As much as you can love someone you know only from his writing, I loved him. That's the kind of writer -- and scientist -- he was. He cared passionately about knowledge.
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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful By Joe Zika TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on May 24, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould is his best to date... and I'm sorry to say his last, as he died May 20, 2002. God Rest Your Soul, Stephen.
I Have Landed is a collection of essays, (thirty-one to be exact), and the scope and breath of these essays is broad. Gould has a way with words to bring complex subjects, casting new light upon them and bringing them to the common man with understanding and enlightenment. The book is divided into eight segments or groupings all of which are compelling and forthright. We see Gould's musing narrative and storytelling ability which brings together themes that have defined his career, humanistic disciplines, his mini intellectual biographies, intellectual palentology, and topics that bring obvious delight to him.
As the reader goes from one subject to the next, we see that Gould has command and is ushering us on with his famous wit. This book is truly Gould's most revealing and personal opus. A brilliant mind, with good humor making the reader feel at home.
I've enjoyed reading Gould's essays through the years, as others have, and as all good things come to and end... let me say adieu my friend.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful By Dennis Littrell HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 31, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I was a little bit disconcerted when I saw the title of this, Stephen Jay Gould's last collection of essays. I thought: has he anticipated his own sadly premature death with the metaphoric "I Have Landed" or is this a kind of melancholy coincidence, or perhaps I am reading into the title something different from what it warrants?
As it turns out, "I Have Landed" is not a reference to the Lethe shore of the poet, but a reference to his grandfather's arrival at Ellis Island on September 11, 1901, exactly, to the day, one century before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. It is from this coincidence that Gould embarks upon some musings that form the touchstone for this, his tenth and last collection of essays.
He is a man who will be sorely missed, a complete original, at once the very embodiment of a meticulous scientist and an establishment New York liberal. He is one of our greatest essayists, a humanist and a quintessentially rational man who has often argued in favor of the value and importance of religious thought. Born in modest circumstance, descendent of Hungarian immigrants (as was another of our most prolific writers, Isaac Asimov) he fell in love (as he recounts in these pages) with the NYC Museum of National History as a child and never lost his love for "the odd little tidbits," nor his sense of himself as a natural historian. He is a "student of snails" (p. 324), a classical nerd "shorter than average" (p. 246) who spent more time at the Hayden Planetarium and the Tyrannosaurus exhibition than he did playing his beloved baseball, a paleontologist who became not only a gifted essayist but an international celebrity.
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