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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 round-the-world detective story about rediscovering vanished species — Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. It is, scientists say, the worst global extinction crisis in the last sixty-five million years -- the hemorrhage of thirty thousand irreplaceable life-forms ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374246648
ISBN-10: 0374246645
Publication Date: 6/15/2002
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: North Point Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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