An edition of Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds (1995)

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An edition of Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds (1995)

The rarest of the rare

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In The Rarest of the Rare, Ackerman sets off on journeys that lead to, among other places, the habitats of the golden lion tamarind in the rain forests of Brazil, the monk seals of the Pacific's French Frigate Shoals, and the endearing short-tailed albatross on an almost inaccessible island off Japan, as well as the vital but threatened layover sites of the vastly traveled monarch butterfly.

She weaves together her own poetic observations of such invaluable creatures and landscapes with the informed, entertaining, and sometimes quirky or compulsive voices of the men and women who know them best. The result is a book that broadens our horizons by carrying us across them. It sings to us in the voice of that uncommon bird herself, Diane Ackerman.

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
184

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Subjects
Rare animals, Monarch butterfly, Endangered ecosystems, Migration, Endangered species, Monarque (Insecte), Ecology, Bedreigde soorten, Psychology

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July 28, 1998, Random House Value Publishing
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The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
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The rarest of the rare: vanishing animals, timeless worlds
1995, Random House
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Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
574.5/29
Library of Congress
QH75 .A32 1995, QH75.A32 1995

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Pagination
xxi, 184 p. ;
Number of pages
184

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OL1276848M
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0679403469
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95008499
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32276372
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202671
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76612

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"In daydreams I have seen its face: a bulbous head covered in silvery fur, with black buttonhook-shaped eyes, a snout on which springy nostrils open full like quotation marks, tiny tab-shaped ears, a spray of cat's whiskers, and many doughy chins."

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