EAN: 9781640094635

ON EXTINCTION - MELANIE CHALLENGER KARTONIERT (TB)

Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to
a dramatic rise in extinctions  award winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of
the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an
Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations  from a sojourn in South America
to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada  she uncovers species  cultures  and industries
touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists 
biologists  and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as
firsthand witness and ancestral memory  Challenger traces the mindset that led to our
destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This
sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine why and what's next.

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