Wild Ones A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story about Looking at People Looking at Animals in America

Name: Wild Ones A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story about Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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ISBN: 9781594204425

ISBN-10: 159420442X

ISBN-13: 9781594204425

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Authors: Jon Mooallem

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Field notes from an age of extinction, tracking the ever-shifting meaning of America’s animals throughout history to undestand the current momentJournalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals—butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/16/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English