The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
1st Edition
Published on 13. February 2014
336 pages
978-1-4088-5123-4 (ISBN)
Description
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WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
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'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed' - Al Gore, New York Times
'Compelling ... It is a disquieting tale, related with rigour and restraint by Kolbert' - Observer
'Passionate ... This is the big story of our age' - Sunday Times
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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
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.
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.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
________________
'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed' - Al Gore, New York Times
'Compelling ... It is a disquieting tale, related with rigour and restraint by Kolbert' - Observer
'Passionate ... This is the big story of our age' - Sunday Times
________________
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
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.
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.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-5123-4 (9781408851234)
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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. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.
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Content
- Cover
- Praise for The Sixth Extinction
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter I: The Sixth Extinction
- Chapter II: The Mastodon's Molars
- Chapter III: The Original Penguin
- Chapter IV: The Luck of the Ammonites
- Chapter V: Welcome to the Anthropocene
- Chapter VI: The Sea Around Us
- Chapter VII: Dropping Acid
- Chapter VIII: The Forest and the Trees
- Chapter IX: Islands on Dry Land
- Chapter X: The New Pangaea
- Chapter XI: The Rhino Gets an Ultrasound
- Chapter XII: The Madness Gene
- Chapter XIII: The Thing with Feathers
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Photo/Illustration Credits
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Also Available by Elizabeth Kolbert
- eCopyright
