false <![CDATA[The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172859706m/225199.jpg 225199 6 How do bombardier beetles choose their mates? Why does a firefly's tail light up at night? What does a monk seal talk about, barking out there on the offshore reef? These questions all have some bearing on the way we humans live our lives, strange though they may seem. Diane Ackerman, a tireless explorer of the natural world, looks for answers among animals that are fast disappearing as their native habitats are destroyed--creatures such as the monarch butterfly, the short-tailed albatross, and the wonderfully named golden lion tamarin. She writes with grace and compassion, but also with a considerable command of science, which makes her work essential for students of nature writing. 1302130 1995 The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds total:55|5:23|4:17|3:12|2:2|1:1| 55 224 103 6 76612 0679403469 9780679403463 1 1 Rarest of the Rare, The: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899569m/76612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76612.Rarest_of_the_Rare_The_Vanishing_Animals_Timeless_Worlds 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Fri Jan 02 07:04:57 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 07:07:57 -0800 2009
Books are windows on the world. I rely on writers like Diane Ackerman to take me places that I perhaps will never get to go. Ackerman is a poet that likes to explore, as she writes in “Rarest of the Rare,” another collection of her adventures in faraway places.
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