ENGLISH

The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

By Diane Ackerman

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1997
ISBN
0679776230, 9780679776239
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1905656 bytes)
Pages
208\0
Time added
2015-09-20 19:39:36
Gardening Landscape Design By Climate Region Techn

Description

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.

Similar books