The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Couverture souple

Kolbert, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408851245 ISBN 13 : 9781408851241

Editeur : Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2015

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION

A major book about the future of the world, blending natural history, field reporting and the history of ideas and into a powerful account of the mass extinction happening today

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elizabeth Kolbert was a New York Times reporter for fourteen years until she became a staff writer at the New Yorker in 1999. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.

@ElizKolbert

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species - including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino - some already gone, others at the point of vanishing. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolbert's book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408851245
• ISBN 13: 9781408851241
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible