On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature - Couverture souple

From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, On Extinction is a passionate exploration of disappearances and why they should concern us. Challenger asks questions about how we've become destructive to our environment, our emotional responses to extinctions, and how these responses might shape our future relationship with nature. She travels to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia, the melting icescape of Antarctica and the Inuit camps of the Arctic, where she traces the links between human activities and environmental collapse. On Extinction is an account of Challenger's journey that brings together ideas about cultural, biological and industrial extinction in a beautiful, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book.

'A wide-ranging and often beautiful book ... Challenger is an exquisite writer' --Observer

'Challenger's courage is exemplary ... This book is an urgent attempt to understand how we got into this mess' --Guardian

`Lovingly crafted and beautifully executed ... a wonderfully thoughtful examination of the concept and reality of extinction' --Big Issue

`Challenger combines her meditations on our fragmenting world into a finely integrated study of loss' --Nature

`A rigorous and animated book convincingly tackling a topic many of us choose to ignore'
--Stylist

'Consistently thought provoking and enjoyably ruminative'
--Independent on Sunday