__________________ Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive
of. The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet's most mysterious bizarre
and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating from the eyeless and tiny
dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle whose gender will be determined by the temperature of
the sand it is born in. These species may have survived for hundreds of thousands of years by
cleverly adapting to their environments but their future remains far from certain. The book
brings to life red cranes as they dance and bow for the sheer joy of movement trees that
breathe out a haze of misty atmosphere for insects that only feast on one kind of flower a
deep-ocean snail quietly building its shell from iron... and each one of them is illuminated
with an exquisite illustration. As you turn the pages there emerges a network of life that
stretches across and around the planet in a dazzling web of existence. This is both a love
letter to life on Earth and an urgent summons to protect what is precious and lovely in this
world.
