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Profiles a variety of endangered animals including the golden lion tamarin, monk seal, and short-tailed albatross, revealing the factors that are contributing to their endangerment and describing preservation efforts. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
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"A life-changing excursion, pleasing, and provocative to mind, body, and soul."--San Francisco Chronicle
"This reader was left wondering which was more impressive, Ms. Ackerman's meticulous prose or her intrepid spirit."--New York Times Book Review "A work to savor...Ackerman brings to her work a poetic sensitivity that enchants while it informs...entrancing."--Philadelphia InquirerAbout the Author
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.
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0679403469
- ISBN 13 9780679403463
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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