The endangered species road trip
Subtitle: a summer's worth of dingy motels, poison oak, ravenous insects, and the rarest species in North America
By: Cameron MacDonald
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Vancouver, BC; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781553659358
Subjects: Travel; Automobile travel; Family; Endangered species
Description: MacDonald details his four-month road trip across the U.S. and Canada to spot some of the endangered species that call North America home. Accompanied by his wife, two children, and the family dog, MacDonald travels from British Columbia, along the west coast of the U.S., through the Southwest and Florida, up the east coast of the U.S., and finally to eastern Canada and then back home to BC. Along the way, he offers fascinating details about the natural history of the endangered species he seeks, as well as threats like overpopulation, commercial fishing, and climate change that are driving them towards extinction.
Table of contents: title: Where have the owls gone?; title: Flight of the Phoenix; title: Desert love; title: Among the ancients; title: The loneliest road; title: Restless nights in grizzly country; title: Home on the range; title: Twitching for a rare bird; title: My old stomping grounds; title: The ghost bird; title: The siren's song; title: Alligator alley; title: The Eastern seaboard; title: Chumming for a right whale; title: The long road home; title: Out of place in a warming world.