The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Softcover

Elizabeth Kolbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408857111 ISBN 13: 9781408857113

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists...

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About the Author

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1999. Prior to that she was a reporter for the New York Times. She received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award for the New Yorker series on which this book is based. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts with her husband and three sons.

Review

"[The Sixth Extinction] is a wonderful book, and it makes very clear that big, abrupt changes can happen; they're not outside the realm of possibility. They have happened before, they can happen again." ―President Barack Obama

“Riveting . . . It is not possible to overstate the importance of Kolbert's book.” ―San Francisco Chronicle

“Arresting . . . Ms. Kolbert shows in these pages that she can write with elegiac poetry...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1408857111
• ISBN 13: 9781408857113
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336