Lost Wonders
10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
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Product details:
- Edition number Main Market Ed.
- Publisher Picador
- Date of Publication 4 September 2025
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9781529047950
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 198x130x27 mm
- Weight 302 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b&w integrated 769
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Short description:
What happens when the delicate balance of life is disturbed? Lost Wonders tells ten remarkable stories of species which have become extinct since the turn of the millennium and the people who worked to save them.
MoreLong description:
Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing.
In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.
'Timely, elegiac' - The Daily Mail
'Superb storytelling . . . an exhilarating and vital book' - Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild
Lost Wonders is a series of fascinating encounters with subjects that are now nowhere to be found on Earth. From giant tortoises to minuscule snails the size of sesame seeds, from ocean-hopping trees to fish that wag their tails like puppies, Tom Lathan brings these lost wonders briefly back to life and gives us a tantalizing glimpse of what we have lost within our own lifetime.
Drawing on the personal recollections of the people who studied these species, as well as those who tried but ultimately failed to save them, and with beautiful illustrations, Lost Wonders is an intimate portrait of the species that have only recently vanished from our world. It is also an urgent warning to hold on all the more tightly to those now slipping from our grasp.
Illustrated by Claire Kohda
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