| The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species Contributor(s): Weidensaul, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0865476683 ISBN-13: 9780865476684 Publisher: North Point Press OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2003 Annotation: Three or four times an hour a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so often one of these lost species resurfaces. "Having adventures most of us can only dream about" ("The Times-Picayune"), Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Endangered Species - Nature | Animals - Wildlife |
| Dewey: 591.68 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so often one of these lost species resurfaces. "Having adventures most of us can only dream about" (The Times-Picayune), Scott Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections. |
Contributor Bio(s): Weidensaul, Scott: - Scott Weidensaul is the author of Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Return to Wild America, The Ghost with Trembling Wings and Mountains of the Heart. He lives in the Pennsylvania Appalachians. |