The Ghost with Trembling Wings by Scott Weidensaul

In this book, you'll venture to distant lands including Peru, Madagascar, Indonesia, and Costa Rica and discover lost species and reason for hope despite the growing rapidity of extinction.

Details

The Ghost with Trembling Wings was written by Scott Weidensaul and published by North Point Press, New York 2002.

This book examines the grim realities of extinction yet through remarkable stories of rediscovery, it manages to sparkle with hope. Scott Weidensaul examines the fascinating stories of species thought to have been extinct but who are rediscovered.

Excerpt

"The stories I have to tell are about endurance against all the odds, about faith and longing and hubris, of grief averted and grief confirmed. They are tales about animals, but really they're about people, about how our species is, at long last, coming to grips with the consequences of its actions--scrambling in the embers of a global biological holocaust, hoping against hope to save something priceless." -Scott Weidensaul