Lost Fish Author:Elizabeth Kolbert LOST FISH Published by Assouline. Hardcover/jacket 230 Pages 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 in 200 Illustrations ISBN : 9782759403929 With more than two hundred richly colored, painstakingly detailed antique illustrations, Lost Fish offers a chance to meditate on the dazzling beauty of marine life before it is too late. Culled from rare nineteenth-cent... more »ury scientific volumes, these stunning prints testify to the ages curiosity about the natural world, which spurred legendary writers to expound on the beauty of creation and naturalists like Linnaeus, Buffon, and his successor, the Comte de Lacépède, to catalogue the species around them. Today, only the very deepest crevasses of the ocean elude us. But many of these species so meticulously enumerated by Lacépède are lost forever, or pushed to the brink of extinction, put at risk by the planets changing climate. Acclaimed environmental reporter Elizabeth Kolbert provides an introduction that elucidates the perils facing the ocean todaya fate inextricably linked with our own. About the author: Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff reporter at The New Yorker and the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006). She is a recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences magazine writing award. Ships in 2-3 business days. Tell your friends! var addthis_pub="burkedecor";« less