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Ghost with Trembling Wings

Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
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A round-the-world detective story about rediscovering vanished species. - Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. It is, scientists say, the worst global extinction crisis in the last sixty-five million years -- the haemorrhage of thirty thousand irreplaceable life-forms each year. And yet, every so often one of these lost species re-surfaces, such as the Indian Forest Owlet, considered extinct for more than a century when it was rediscovered in 1997. Like heirlooms plucked from a burning house, they are gifts to an increasingly impoverished world. - In The Ghost with Trembling Wings, naturalist Scott Weidensaul pursues these stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections. The search takes Weidensaul to the rain forests of the Caribbean and Brazil in pursuit of long-lost birds, to the rugged mountains of Tasmania for the striped, wolf-like marsupial known as the Thylacine, to cloning laboratories where scientists struggle to re-create long-extinct animals, and even to the moorlands and tidy farms of England on the trail of mysterious black panthers whose existence seems to depend on the faith of those looking for them. The Ghost with Trembling Wings is a book of exploration and a survey of the frontiers of modern science and wildlife biology. It is, in the end, the story of our desire for a wilder, bigger, more complete world.

Author Biography

SCOTT WEIDENSAUL is the author of Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Mountains of the Heart
Release date NZ
December 1st, 2002
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
illustrations
Imprint
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Pages
352
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Dimensions
132x209x29
ISBN-13
9780374246648
Product ID
1666616

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