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.Įlizabeth 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. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. This is the big story of our age' - Sunday TimesĪ major book about the future of the world, blending natural history, field reporting and the history of ideas and into a powerful account of the mass extinction happening today It is a disquieting tale, related with rigour and restraint by Kolbert' - Observer 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed' - Al Gore, New York Times WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
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