Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

by Michelle Nijhuis

Book Overview

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 protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today's global effort to defend life on a larger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324001682
• ISBN13: 9781324001683
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"