The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds - Couverture rigide

Ackerman, Diane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679403469 ISBN 13 : 9780679403463

Editeur : Random House USA Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Ackerman Diane

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world's rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a warning to our own. Traveling from the Amazon rain forest to a forbidding island off the coast of Japan, enduring everything from broken ribs to a beating by an irate seal, Ackerman reveals her subjects in all their splendid particularity. She shows us how they feed, mate, and migrate. She eavesdrops on their class and courtship dances. She pays tribute to the men and women hwo have deoted their lives to saving them.

Revue de presse

"A life-changing excursion, pleasing, and provocative to mind, body, and soul."--San Francisco Chronicle
"This reader was left wondering which was more impressive, Ms. Ackerman's meticulous prose or her intrepid spirit."--New York Times Book Review
"A work to savor...Ackerman brings to her work a poetic sensitivity that enchants while it informs...entrancing."--Philadelphia Inquirer

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House USA Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679403469
• ISBN 13: 9780679403463
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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