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Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction /

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A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement, told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to prot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nijhuis, Michelle (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Endangered species > Conservation.
Wildlife conservation > History.
Endangered species > Anecdotes.
Wildlife conservation > Anecdotes.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
SCIENCE / History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Aesop's swallows
  • The botanist who named the animals
  • The taxidermist and the bison
  • The hellcat and the hawks
  • The forester and the green fire
  • The professor and the elixir of life
  • The eagle and the whooping crane
  • The scientists who escaped the tower
  • The rhino and the commons
  • The few who save the many
  • Homo amphibius.