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The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions

Terry Glavin

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Description:Ecologists are calling the age we live in the Sixth Great Extinction. The world is losing more than animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, and with it ways of living, seeing and knowing.Glavin sets off in pursuit of the very things we’re losing – a distinct species every ten minutes, a unique vegetable variety every six hours, an entire language every two weeks. Along the way he encounters some of the world’s wonderful, rare things: a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language, a Malayan tiger (the last of its kind) and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream. And he finds hope in the most unlikely places – a macaw roost in Costa Rica, a relic community of Norse whalers and the vault beneath the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.A fresh narrative take on the usual doom and gloom environmentalism, The Lost and Left Behind draws upon zoology, biology, ecology, anthropology and mythology to uncover the hidden story of a long human struggle to conserve the living things of the world.Terry Glavin is an award-winning author and journalist, an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. His publications include This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape, which was a Governor Genral's Award finalist, and The Last Great Sea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions. To get started finding The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2007

ISBN: 0863566065

Description: Ecologists are calling the age we live in the Sixth Great Extinction. The world is losing more than animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, and with it ways of living, seeing and knowing.Glavin sets off in pursuit of the very things we’re losing – a distinct species every ten minutes, a unique vegetable variety every six hours, an entire language every two weeks. Along the way he encounters some of the world’s wonderful, rare things: a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language, a Malayan tiger (the last of its kind) and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream. And he finds hope in the most unlikely places – a macaw roost in Costa Rica, a relic community of Norse whalers and the vault beneath the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.A fresh narrative take on the usual doom and gloom environmentalism, The Lost and Left Behind draws upon zoology, biology, ecology, anthropology and mythology to uncover the hidden story of a long human struggle to conserve the living things of the world.Terry Glavin is an award-winning author and journalist, an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. His publications include This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape, which was a Governor Genral's Award finalist, and The Last Great Sea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions. To get started finding The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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