The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species

A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac thrilling and informative. ―Michiko Kakutani The New York TimesThree or four times an hour eighty or more times a day a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet every so often one of these lost species resurfaces. Having adventures most of us can only dream about (The Times-Picayune) Scott Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery of endurance against the odds and of surprising resurrections.