Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds

Stories of Extinction

Barbara Allen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2025
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-83639-045-9 (ISBN)

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Promoting awareness of endangered wildlife through intimate, personal portraits of extinct species.

This book presents thirty-one extinct species through the personal perspectives of those animals. This intimate approach not only highlights each species but explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honour such a loss? Can we grieve for species we never knew? These animals range from the well-known passenger pigeon, thylacine and great auk, to lesser-known creatures like the Arabian ostrich, Saint Helena earwig and Bramble Cay melomys. These poignant portraits tug on the heartstrings and aim to inspire readers to protect vulnerable and endangered species today, motivating them to play a positive role in conserving our planet’s biodiversity.

Barbara Allen is a minister in the Uniting Church in Australia. Her books include Pigeon (2009), Animals in Religion (2016) and Pelican (2019), all published by Reaktion Books.

PART ONE
Introduction
Chapter One: Extinction
Chapter Two: Memorializing Grief

PART TWO: THE PORTRAITS
The Aurochs
The Dodo
The Rodrigues Solitaire
Steller's Sea Cow
The Great Auk
The Spectacled Cormorant (or Pallas's Cormorant)
The Falkland Islands Wolf
The Quagga
The Tarpan
The Rocky Mountain Locust
The Japanese Wolf (or Honshu Wolf)
The Passenger Pigeon
The Carolina Parakeet
The Syrian Wild Ass
The Heath Hen
The Thylacine
The Xerces Blue Butterfly
The Arabian Ostrich
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
The St Helena Earwig
The Eskimo Curlew
The Tecopa Pupfish
The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog and the Northern Gastric-Brooding Frog/Eungella Gastric-Brooding Frog
The Dusky Seaside Sparrow
The Golden Toad
The Pyrenean Ibex
The Baiji (Yangtze River) Dolphin
The Pinta Island Tortoise
The Bramble Cay Melomys
The O'ahu Tree Snail

References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2025
Zusatzinfo	39 illustrations, 37 in colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-83639-045-9 / 1836390459
ISBN-13	978-1-83639-045-9 / 9781836390459
Zustand	Neuware