The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
by Weidensaul, Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374246645
- ISBN 13
- 9780374246648
- Seller
-
King River, Western Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
North Point Press, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 341 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. All my books are available and are shipped from our Australian address.. A round-the-world detective story about rediscovering vanished species. Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. It is, scientists say, the worst global extinction crisis in the last sixty-five million years -- the hemorrhage of thirty thousand irreplaceable life-forms each year. And yet, every so often one of these lost species resurfaces, such as the Indian forest owlet, considered extinct for more than a century when it was rediscovered in 1997. Like heirlooms plucked from a burning house, they are gifts to an increasingly impoverished world. In The Ghost with Trembling Wings, naturalist Scott Weidensaul pursues these stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections. The search takes Weidensaul to the rain forests of the Caribbean and Brazil in pursuit of long-lost birds, to the rugged mountains of Tasmania for the striped, wolflike marsupial known as the thylacine, to cloning laboratories where scientists struggle to re-create long-extinct animals, and even to the moorlands and tidy farms of England on the trail of mysterious black panthers whose existence seems to depend on the faith of those looking for them. The Ghost with Trembling Wings is a book of exploration and a survey of the frontiers of modern science and wildlife biology. It is, in the end, the story of our desire for a wilder, bigger, more complete world. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; Natural History & Resources. ISBN: 0374246645. ISBN/EAN: 9780374246648. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3315. . 9780374246648
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3315
- Title
- The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
- Author
- Weidensaul, Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374246645
- ISBN 13
- 9780374246648
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Rare animals, Extinction (Biology), animals, birds, nature, science, Animals & Birds; Natural History & Resources. ISBN: 0374246645 EAN: 9780374246648 Weidensaul, Scott The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Se
Terms of Sale
Great Southern Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Great Southern Books
Biblio member since 2012
King River, Western Australia
About Great Southern Books
We are an independent online bookstore and have been in business since 2012.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....