"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . "Having adventures most of us can only dream about" ( The Times-Picayune ), Scott Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of.
And yet, every so often one of these lost species resurfaces.
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. . . "A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction