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Loading... Waiting for the macaws : and other stories from the age of extinctions (edition 2006)by Terry Glavin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A passionate and somewhat balanced description of the accelerating pace of extinctions. The most powerful and frightening chapter dealt with agriculture, monoculture, plant extinctions. Not much of a prescription for a cure other than "do what you can." ( ) no reviews | add a review
"Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting reminder of the scale and breadth of what can only be described as a catastrophe of the human spirit and imagination."--Wade Davis, author of Light at the Edge of the World and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting and beautifully written account of the age in which we live. Journeying around the world, Terry Glavin argues that all extinctions are related and that the language of environmentalism is inadequate to describing this great unravelling. But Glavin discovers that there is hope, finding it in the most unlikely places--a macaw roost in Costa Rica, a Small village in Ireland, a community of Norse whalers on the Lofoten Islands in the North Atlantic, the vault beneath the Royal botanical Garden at Kew, and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the Patkai Range of the eastern Himalayas. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)578.68Natural sciences and mathematics Life Sciences, Biology Microscopy in BiologyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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