The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
Kolbert, Elizabeth2015
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Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on Earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species - including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino - some already gone, others at the point of vanishing.
Main title:
The sixth extinction : an unnatural history / Elizabeth Kolbert.
Author:
Kolbert, Elizabeth, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Collation:
319 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408851241 (pbk)
Dewey class:
576.8'4576.84
Language:
English
BRN:
234823