The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer Prize winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a walk down memory lane–that is, if you’re the planet. She takes the reader all over the globe, from Iceland to the Great Barrier Reef. Kolbert presents each chapter, in this journalist’s account of life departed, as a multi-facetted story, at the center of which is usually the profile of a quirky scientist. Kolbert gives us a sense of what it is like for these insatiable truth-seekers to be in the f...