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

Ackerman, Diane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679776230 ISBN 13 : 9780679776239

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

Rarest of the Rare With the insatiable curiosity she brought to her bestselling A Natural History of the Senses, intrepid naturalist/poet Diane Ackerman journeys from the Amazon rain forests to a forbidding Japanese island in search of endangered creatures and their habitats. What ensues is both a rapturous celebration of other species and a warning to our own. "Startling and humbling".--The New York Times Book Revi Full description

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679776230
• ISBN 13: 9780679776239
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208