On extinction
Subtitle: how we became estranged from nature
By: Melanie Challenger
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781847081872
Subjects: Environmental responsibility; Extinction (Biology); Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-325).
Table of contents: title: Beginnings : Natural History Museum, London; title: The first peregrination : West Penwith, Cornwall; title: 1. Wild flowers; title: 2. Tin; title: 3. Ghosts; title: The second peregrination : South Georgia, Antarctica, and the Falkland Islands; title: 4. Whales; title: 5. Ice; title: 6. Savages; title: The third peregrination : North Yorkshire, Manhattan Island and Baffin Island; title: 7. Bones; title: 8. Tundra; title: Endings : Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.