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by Diane Ackerman (Author)
With the insatiable curiosity she brought to her bestselling A Natural History of the Senses, intrepid naturalist/poet Diane Ackerman journeys from the Amazon rain forests to a forbidding Japanese island in search of endangered creatures and their habitats. What ensues is both a rapturous celebration of other species and a warning to our own. "Startling and humbling".--The New York Times Book Review.
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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.
Author Biography
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 York.
