The Ghost with Trembling Wings - by Scott Weidensaul (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Three or four times an hour a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so often one of these lost species resurfaces. "Having adventures most of us can only dream about" ("The Times-Picayune"), Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." --Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b></p><p>Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so often one of these lost species resurfaces. "Having adventures most of us can only dream about" (<i>The Times-Picayune</i>), Scott Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Part natural history, part adventure story (starring Mr. Weidensaul as a kind of ecological-minded Indiana Jones, roaming the world in search of missing species)." --<i>Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times</i></p><p>"At the core of Weidensaul's book are fundamental questions about who we are, the state of our planet, and the faltering health of our ecosystems . . . [It] is as much about people as the animals they search for." --<i>Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe</i></p><p>"Scott Weidensaul ranks among an elite group of writer-naturalists--Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee and David Quammen come to mind--whose straightforward eloquence elevates ecology to the level of philosophy." --<i>Janice P. Nimura, Los Angeles Times</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Scott Weidensaul</b> is the author of <i>Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds</i>, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and <i>Mountains of the Heart</i>. He lives in the Pennsylvania Appalachians.</p>
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