
The Rarest of the Rare
Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
Diane Ackerman(Author)
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 14. January 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-679-77623-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-679-77623-9 (9780679776239)
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E-Book
07/2011
Vintage
€8.99
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Person
Diane Ackerman