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The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
The Ghost with Trembling Wings Science Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
Author: Scott Weidensaul
“A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times — Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so often one of these lost ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780865476684
ISBN-10: 0865476683
Publication Date: 6/11/2003
Pages: 352
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Publisher: North Point Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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reviewed The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species on + 29 more book reviews
This is a highly readable account of the search for many of the more well known, and some less well known, crypto-zoological vanishing acts of the last century. The author does presents an open account of the likelihoods and problems facing rediscovering presumed extinct species. I thought this book to be very good especially when compared to other books in this area of research.
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A great read, I hope that someday maybe one or more of these lost species might be found!


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