{"product_id":"the-race-to-save-the-phillip-hoose-9781250073716","title":"The Race to Save the Lord God Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. \"Doc\" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sibley Guide to Birds\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Race to Save the Lord God Bird\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition of the author's award-winning history features a new chapter about the endlessly debated 2004 Arkansas \"rediscovery\" of the ivory-billed woodpecker that made headlines around the world, as well as an expanded introduction and more than a dozen new images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phillip Hoose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250073715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250073716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Square Fish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 7.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Phillip Hoose","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991905829119,"sku":"9781250073716","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4208f205-0bb8-4827-a18c-dd191ff8726e.jpg?v=1683312919","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-race-to-save-the-phillip-hoose-9781250073716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}