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Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

By Diane Ackerman

By Diane Ackerman

By Diane Ackerman

By Diane Ackerman

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Category: Science

Category: Science

Paperback $15.00

Jan 14, 1997 | 208 Pages

Ebook $10.99

Jul 13, 2011 | 208 Pages

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    About The Rarest of the Rare

    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.

    About The Rarest of the Rare

    The renowned author of A Natural History of the Senses takes readers in search of the "rarest of the rare, " species likely to disappear before most of us have ever seen them. From Brazil to the Pacific to Japan, Ackerman shares her concern at the animals’ plight, rejoices at the chance to experience them, and cheers those who work to save these fantastic creatures.

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    About Diane Ackerman

    Diane Ackerman has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to garnering many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestselling The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New… More about Diane Ackerman

    About Diane Ackerman

    Diane Ackerman has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to garnering many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestselling The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New… More about Diane Ackerman

    Product Details

    Category: Science

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 14, 1997 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679776239

    Category: Science

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 13, 2011 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307763358

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    Praise

    "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

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