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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger (Hardback, 2011)
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- DescriptionThe destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industries and agriculture is leading to the Earth's sixth great extinction of species. Current estimates suggest that the rate of extinction is w thousands of times that counted in the fossil record before the emergence of modern man. At the same time, human societies themselves are in a cultural extinction crisis, with experts anticipating that of the world's nearly seven thousand languages as few as ten percent may survive into the next century. Melanie Challenger's extraordinary book is an exploration of how we might live to resist these extinctions and why such disappearances must be of concern to us. Adventurous, curious and passionate about her subject, Challenger takes us on a very personal journey as she tries to restore her own relationship with nature. The narrative unfolds through a series of landscapes haunted by extinction. From the ruined tin mines of Cornwall and the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia to the Inuit camps of the Arctic and the white heart of Antarctica, she probes the critical relationship between human activities and environmental collapse. This is the first book to weave together the strands of cultural, biological and industrial extinctions into a meditation on the way we live beside nature in the modern world.
- Author BiographyMelanie Challenger is a freelance writer. She is the author of 'Galatea', her award-winning first collection of poems, and co-author, with Zlata Filipovic, of 'Stolen Voices', a history of twentieth century conflict compiled through war diaries. During her research for 'On Extinction', she was a Fellow of the AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity at University College London from 2007-2010 and International Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey for International Polar Year 2007-2008. Her work was also a recipient of the British Council Darwin Awards.
Key Features
- Author(s)Melanie Challenger
- PublisherGranta Books
- Date of Publication06/10/2011
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatHardback
- ISBN-101847081878
- ISBN-139781847081872
- SubjectNatural History: General
Publication Data
- Place of PublicationLondon
- Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
- ImprintGranta Books
- Content NoteIllustrations
Dimensions
- Width153 mm
- Height234 mm
- Spine32 mm
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