On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Challenger, Melanie

On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781640094635)

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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Challenger, Melanie

On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature

$16.95
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Challenger, Melanie

On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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."

Author: Melanie Challenger
ISBN-10: 1640094636
ISBN-13: 9781640094635
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2021
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Melanie Challenger
By Melanie Challenger
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Melanie Challenger is the author of Galatea, an award-winning first collection of poems, and co-author, with Zlata Filipovic, of Stolen Voices, a history of twentieth-century conflict compiled through war diaries. She has received a British Council Darwin Award for her work. She lives in the Scottish Highlands.

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