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The Sixth Extinction

The Sixth Extinction 1

An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Publication Date: 13/02/2014
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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.

ISBN:
9781408851227
9781408851227
Category:
Endangered species & extinction of species
Publication Date:
13-02-2014
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x27mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe- Man, Nature, and Climate Change.

She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999, and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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Elizabeth Kolbert distills the theories and causes of extinction over the last billion years in practical explanations. The Sixth extinction is fascinating and enlightening read about the shocking affects caused on our world and environment.

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