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Robert Twigger isn't your typical nature writer, focusing intently on the life habits of an endangered and misunderstood species. In The Extinction Club he rambles and reflects his way all around his ostensible topic--the nearly extinct Pere David's deer. In fact, he spends the first fifty or so pages telling readers why he wrote the book, and musing on everything from libraries to his grandfather. It's a slow start for readers curious about the deer, but once Twigger begins divulging details about how the species, native to China, has survived in Bedfordshire, England, you'll be hooked. Twigger has a hipster's sense of irony and a postmodern storyteller's keen sense of the absurd, allowing him to avoid a lot of nature-writing clichés. Critics have accused him of being self-referential, and he does spend too much time in The Extinction Club describing meetings with publishers, his time at a survival camp, and his life in Oxford. But the book works in the end, both as a history of a little-known chapter of wildlife biology and as a meditation on nature and truth. --Therese Littleton
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Penguin Books, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0140285040
ISBN 13: 9780140285048
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Minor cover creases and shelf wear, ink website adress and numerals to inside front cover, heavy foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Penguin paperback edition with number one, 2002. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Kate Allen. ; 192 pages; This was supposed to be a book about a small, badly designed deer that was hunted to the edge of extinction in its native China by the nineteenth century and only survived in posh parks and Western zoos. The Chinese know it as Milu, but in the West its called Pere David's deer. But the more the author tried to write the fascinating tale of missionaries, emperors and unreasonably cute, rare animals, the more he got distracted by other fascinating subjects. Including the existence of The Extinction Club, a band of maniacs who try to finish off endangered species - personally. 131 X 13 X 198 millimeters. Seller Inventory # 36622
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The Extinction Club : A Mostly True Story about Two Men, a Deer and a Writer
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