false 225972 1 <div><div><i>The Sixth Extinction</i> is a haunting account of the age in which we live. Ecologists are calling it the Sixth Great Extinction, and the world isn&#8217;t losing just its ecological legacy; also vanishing is a vast human legacy of languages and our ways of living, seeing, and knowing.<br>Terry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented, catastrophic vanishing of animals, plants, and human cultures. He argues that the language of environmentalism is inadequate in describing the unraveling of the vast system in which all these extinctions are actually related. And he writes that we&#8217;re no longer gaining knowledge with every generation. We&#8217;re losing it. <br>In the face of what he describes as a dark and gathering sameness upon the Earth, Glavin embarks on a global journey to meet the very things we&#8217;re losing (a distinct species every ten minutes, a unique vegetable variety every six hours, an entire language every two weeks) and on the way encounters some of the world&#8217;s wonderful, rare things: a human-sized salmon in Russia; a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language; a Malayan tiger, the last of its kind; and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream. And he finds hope in the most unlikely places---a macaw roost in Costa Rica; a small village in Ireland; a relic community of Norse whalers in the North Atlantic; the vault beneath the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew; and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the eastern Himalayas. <br>A fresh narrative take on the usual doom and gloom environmentalism, <i>The Sixth Extinction </i>draws upon zoology, biology, ecology, anthropology, and mythology to share the joys hidden within the long human struggle to conserve the world&#8217;s living things. Here, we find hope in what&#8217;s left: the absolute and stunning beauty in the Earth&#8217;s last cultures and creatures.<br></div></div> 218871 3 4 2007 The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind total:28|5:7|4:9|3:10|2:2|1:0| 28 105 43 10 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 13 19:47:56 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 19:52:40 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 21:17:09 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 08:08:04 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Feb 18 12:15:37 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 12:15:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 28 10:26:59 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 08:58:30 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 10:26:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 21 19:18:01 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 19:20:08 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jul 15 17:59:32 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 18:01:53 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 08 13:56:37 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 13:57:52 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jan 27 09:21:48 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 09:22:55 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 17:54:31 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 20:06:07 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Mar 22 08:49:55 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 02:55:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 04 18:14:43 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:14:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 21 12:19:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:19:58 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 14:21:54 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 13 05:55:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 05:55:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 16 14:12:22 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 14:12:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 28 16:42:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 24 13:46:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 21:55:59 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 15:00:24 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 03 21:53:11 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 21:53:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 30 08:16:01 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 08:16:03 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Oct 10 15:12:16 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 15:12:16 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Fri Oct 03 08:39:16 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 06:44:58 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 08:39:16 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=225972