The Song Of The Dodo
Author: Quammen, David
ISBN: 9780712673334
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 22 Aug 1997
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback / softback
This is a stunning book with graceful reverberations' Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
ISBN: 9780712673334
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 22 Aug 1997
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback / softback
This is a stunning book with graceful reverberations' Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge
Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
