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Race to Save...
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Best Book
of 2004 lists:
Washington Post,
Miami Herald,
Chicago Tribune,
Boston Globe,
Kirkus Reviews,
Natural History Magazine,
many others.
"A groundbreaking book for readers of any
age. In a true story spanning two hundred years,
Hoose delivers a spellbinding mystery and a
haunting look at how a species can suddenly
lose ground...Above all, this is a story about
attitudes - toward birds, toward knowledge,
toward land and science and wealth, and about
the magical commonality of living things."
-- Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population
Bomb and President, Center for Conservation
Biology, Stanford University
"Phil Hoose uses his wonderful storytelling
skills to give us the most thorough and readable
account to date of the personalities, fashions,
economics, and politics that combined to bring
about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
I found myself thinking about The Race to Save
the Lord God Bird long after I finished reading
it."
-- David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley
Guide to Birds
"If all Phil Hoose did in The Race to Save
the Lord God Bird was tell the story of the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, that would be enough,
because he spins a mesmerizing tale - full of
vivid characters and wilderness landscapes so
real you can almost feel the humidity and hear
the bellowing alligators. But his underlying
message takes readers beyond the battle to save
one glorious bird, and shows why some people
dedicate their lives and hearts to fighting
extinction - a hopeful message that is more
important now than ever."
-- Scott Weidensaul, author of The Ghost
with Trembling Wings
"What a wonderful book! How we got into
a biodiversity crisis and how we might begin
to get out of it, all captured in the suspenseful,
many-threaded tale of the race to save the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker. Everyone interested in conservation
and ecology will be enthralled and informed."
-- Daniel Simberloff, Past President, American
Society of Naturalists
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The
Race to Save the Lord God Bird:
"There is probably more passion, sadness,
villainy, heroism and sheer suspense in this account
of the decline of the ivory-billed woodpecker
than in any other book, of any genre, destined
for young readers' shelves this year...a magnificent
book, and not just for kids."
--Washington Post Book World
The tragedy of extinction
is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary
bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those
who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell
it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful
saga that sweeps through two hundred years of
history, it introduces artists like John James
Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster,
and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's
Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young
ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest
to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the
first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history,
an early round in what is now a worldwide effort
to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades
in the United States, the bird is last spotted
in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in
the race to save it.
All this, plus Mr.
Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes
together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author
of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the
most thorough and readable account to date of
the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics
that combined to bring about the demise of the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker."
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now
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