A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals - Hardcover

Flannery, Tim

 
9780871137975: A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals

Synopsis

An illustrated journey through a lost world introduces readers to the many species of animals that have become extinct over the past five centuries as the result of European expansion into various regions of the world, including the great auk, Carolina parakeet, thylacine, passenger pigeon, Tasmanian wolf, and others.

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Review

'Tim Flannery is in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' -- Sir David Attenborough

'fascinating because each story is different...a readable, captivating account of the effect of people on other species.' -- The Age, Australia

From the Publisher

An evocative and beautifully illustrated commemoration of the animals we have lost from the planet over the last five hundred years, by the author of The Eternal Frontier.

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