The Future of Life

Wilson, Edward O.

ISBN 10: 0679450785 / ISBN 13: 9780679450788

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2002

About this Item

229 pp.8vo. This is Professor Wilson's call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve that rescue. Stated First Edition. Tight and unread. Deckle fore-edges. Dust jacket is protected with a Brodart archival cover. Seller Inventory # 000326

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Future of Life

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: fine

Edition: First Edition. First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Presents an impassioned call for urgent action to save the Earth's biological heritage, identifying essential species that are threatened with extinction while identifying ways they can be saved and exploring the importance of conservation. 125,000 first printing.

About the Author:

Edward O. Wilson is the author of two Pulitzer Prize–winning books, On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as many other groundbreaking works, including Consilience, Naturalist, and Sociobiology. A recipient of many of the world’s leading prizes in science and conservation, he is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Renee.