A GAP IN NATURE. Discovering The World's Extinct Animals.

FLANNERY, Tim & SCHOUTEN, Peter.

ISBN 10: 1876485779 / ISBN 13: 9781876485771

Published by Text Publishing, 2001., 2003

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4to, 184pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A GAP IN NATURE. Discovering The World's Extinct Animals.
• Publisher: Text Publishing, 2001.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1876485779
• ISBN 13: 9781876485771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History Art

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Synopsis

"Since humanity first wandered from its African birthplace over fifty millennia ago, it has radically altered the environment everywhere it has settled, often at the cost of the creatures that ruled the wild before its arrival. As our prehistoric ancestors spread throughout the globe, they began the most deadly epoch the planet's fauna have experienced since the demise of the dinosaurs. And following the dawn of the age of exploration five hundred years ago, the rate of extinction has accelerated ever more rapidly." In A Gap in Nature, scientist and historian Tim Flannery, in collaboration with internationally acclaimed wildlife artist Peter Schouten, catalogues 103 creatures that have vanished from the face of the earth since Columbus first set foot in the New World. From the colorful Carolina parakeet to the gigantic Steller's sea cow, Flannery evocatively tells the story of each animal and its habitat, how it lived and how it succumbed to its terrible destiny. Accompanying every entry is a beautifully rendered color representation by Schouten, who has devoted years of his life to this project. His portraits - life size in their original form - are exquisitely reproduced in this extraordinary book and include animals from every American passenger pigeons, Tasmanian thylacines, Mauritian dodos, African bluebucks, and dozens more.