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The Rarest Of the Rare:Vanishing animals, Timeless Worlds
[Paperback - 1997]
diane ackerman
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Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780679776239 | Pages: 208
Shipping Weight: .207 | Dimensions: 5.25 x .5 x 7.92 inches

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Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world's rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a warning to our own. Traveling from the Amazon rain forest to a forbidding island off the coast of Japan, enduring everything from broken ribs to a beating by an irate seal, Ackerman reveals her subjects in all their splendid particularity. She shows us how they feed, mate, and migrate. She eavesdrops on their class and courtship dances. She pays tribute to the men and women hwo have deoted their lives to saving them.

About the Author

Diane Ackermanhas been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestsellersThe Zookeeper’s WifeandA Natural History of the Senses.The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, became aNew York Timesbestseller, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as, "a groundbreaking work of nonfiction." A movie ofThe Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, releases in theaters March 31st, 2017 from Focus Features.She lives with her husband Paul West in Ithaca, New York.

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