＂After years of crossing borders to see new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell’s exploration of lines between states, between time zones, and between species led him to consider the lines
that divide genders, seasons, musical genres, and just aboutevery other aspect of human life. His conclusion: most had something in common--they were largely imaginary. Nonetheless, this tour
of the tangled world of delineation attempts to address how we distinguish right from wrong, life from death, Democrat from Republican--and how the lines between came to be. Part storyteller,
part educator, and part smartass, Cashwell is unafraid to take readers off the beaten path--to the desert vistas of the Four Corners, a quiet breakfast among the redwoods, or a pumping station
in Cleveland: something amusing and/or educational awaits at every stop. And he’s not alone: the tricks and treats of the human instinct for drawing lines are revealed in interviews with
experts of all sorts. Learn about the use of the panel border from a Hugo Award-winning comics creator. Trace the edge of extinction with the rediscoverer of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Get
the truth about the strike zone from an umpire with a physics degree＂--
