Waiting for the Macaws : And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions

Glavin, Terry

ISBN 10: 0670044229 / ISBN 13: 9780670044221

Published by Viking Canada, 2006

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Synopsis:

Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting and beautifully written account of the age in which we live. A dark and gathering sameness is upon the earth, and while ecologists are calling this epoch the Sixth Great Extinction, the world isn t losing just the ecological legacy of animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, ways of living, ways of seeing, and ways of knowing.

Journeying around the world and drawing upon zoology, biology, ecology, anthropology, and mythology, Terry Glavin argues that all extinctions are related and that the language of environmentalism is inadequate to describing this great unravelling.

But Glavin discovers that there is hope, finding it in the most unlikely places—a macaw roost in Costa Rica, a small village in Ireland, a relic community of Norse whalers on the Lofoten Islands in the North Atlantic, the vault beneath the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the Patkai Range of the eastern Himalayas. In the history of extinctions, Glavin finds a hidden story, a long human struggle to conserve the living things of the world.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Waiting for the Macaws : And Other Stories ...
Publisher: Viking Canada
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.