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.
| ISBN: | 9780679776239 |
| Publication date: | 14th January 1997 |
| Author: | Diane Ackerman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Genres: |
Wildlife: general interest Conservation of the environment Nature and the natural world: general interest |
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.
The Rarest of the Rare features in the following genres: Wildlife: general interest, Conservation of the environment, Nature and the natural world: general interest
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The Rarest of the Rare was written by Diane Ackerman and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Rarest of the Rare has 184 pages