Last Survivors: Natural History Of 48 Animals In Danger Of Extinction
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Slipcase: worn.
At the razor's edge between existence and oblivion, forty-eight of the world's most imperilled creatures are given their final testament in Last Survivors: Natural History of 48 Animals in Danger of Extinction. This compelling volume chronicles the lives, habitats, and behavioural patterns of animals teetering on the brink of disappearance — from the soaring majesty of endangered raptors to the quietly vanishing mammals of the world's shrinking wild places — presenting each species with the scientific rigour and visual richness it deserves. Drawing on the tradition of classic natural history illustration, the work argues powerfully for the urgency of conservation at a time when human encroachment, habitat destruction, and ecological imbalance are accelerating the pace of extinction beyond all historical precedent. Each portrait is both an elegy and a call to action, leaving the reader to wonder: of the forty-eight species documented within these pages, how many still survive today?
Author: Noel Simon & Paul Geroudet
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, World Publishing Company
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Slipcase: worn.
At the razor's edge between existence and oblivion, forty-eight of the world's most imperilled creatures are given their final testament in Last Survivors: Natural History of 48 Animals in Danger of Extinction. This compelling volume chronicles the lives, habitats, and behavioural patterns of animals teetering on the brink of disappearance — from the soaring majesty of endangered raptors to the quietly vanishing mammals of the world's shrinking wild places — presenting each species with the scientific rigour and visual richness it deserves. Drawing on the tradition of classic natural history illustration, the work argues powerfully for the urgency of conservation at a time when human encroachment, habitat destruction, and ecological imbalance are accelerating the pace of extinction beyond all historical precedent. Each portrait is both an elegy and a call to action, leaving the reader to wonder: of the forty-eight species documented within these pages, how many still survive today?