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Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction de Barbara Allen

Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction

Autor Barbara Allen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 aug 2025
A moving and motivating collection of portraits of extinct species, revealing the profound implications of their disappearance.
 
This book presents thirty-one extinct species through personal portraits. The intimate approach not only highlights each particular species but also explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honor 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. Through her poignant portraits, Barbara Allen not only tugs on the heartstrings but also aims to inspire readers to protect vulnerable and endangered species today, motivating us to play a positive role in conserving our planet’s biodiversity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781836390459
ISBN-10: 1836390459
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 27 color plates, 11 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books

Notă biografică

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

Recenzii

"This beautifully illustrated book serves as much as a simulacrum of private, deeply personal grief and loss as it is a repository of stories and histories. Allen has created a deliberate, well-documented archive. . . . Allen revivifies extinct animals so that, briefly, they seem to breathe. . . .  By giving voices and representation to 31 extinct species, Allen shows how these creatures lived and how to listen wholeheartedly to them and the other species (estimates range from 20,000 to two million) that went extinct during the last century."

"This is the sort of book you’d prefer didn’t have so many pages—the more there are, the less full our world is of great species. Those that have sadly gone from our lives should, and do, make us think harder about saving the rest, though—the book covers well known species like Dodo and Great Auk, as well as the likes of Spectacled Cormorant, with only seven stuffed specimens and two incomplete skeletons left on the planet. Other losses covered here include Heath Hen, Arabian Ostrich and Ivory-billed Woodpecker. There are many more lost species in here which we should never forget."

"This book brings together a selection of extinct species, many that have been pushed to global extinction in living memory or at least recently enough to have touched human culture, and tells their stories. . . . Extinct species slip from our collective memories unless books such as this one bring them back to our attention and make us wonder whether our species could have done better."

"These are challenging stories, not just for witnessing the suffering of another species but for seeing the human species reflected back at us."

“What would the last living passenger pigeon. . . have to say if he or she were alive today? Or the Tasmanian tiger? Or the Carolina parakeet? . . . This book is a fitting memorial to them.”

"Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction by Allen profiles the great auk, passenger pigeon, and Saint Helena earwig, among other extinct creatures, exploring how their disappearances affected their ecosystems and provide insight into humanity’s relationship with nature."

 "The fascinating trivia . . . [drives] home the wondrous biodiversity lost in the extinction of any species. For instance, Allen describes the remarkable reproductive practices of the female gastric-brooding frog, which would suspend the production of gastric acid before swallowing her own fertilized eggs and then wait for them to grow into frogs in her upper intestine and crawl out of her mouth about six weeks later. . . . This will hold the interest of animal lovers."

“There is a clear cultural appetite for extinction stories. . . Allen’s book, arriving in this cultural moment, seems poised to satisfy that appetite and help us think more deeply about what extinction means.”

"Allen’s Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds is an inventive and beautiful hymn to what we have lost, all the while shining an urgent light of hope for the future."

"These stories of extinct creatures are comprehensively researched and imaginatively written. This book will enlighten and inspire those familiar with the subject and perhaps many who don’t yet know that they are interested."

"A scholarly and meditative tribute to the remarkable species that humans have driven to extinction."