This is a book about life and time-all sorts of life and all kinds of time--the reader is taken into the field with a variety of scientists--slogging through the bush to find an animal no one has ever seen; descending into the depths of a submerged canyon in the Mediterranean; on an archaeological excavation under the torrid sun.There are more than fifty non-technical accounts of Smithsonian scientific work in the field, documented by more than 300 stunning photographs.