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 							No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal
Species August 10th 2004 by Richard Ellis (Author) 
  
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  Format: pdf
  
  Product Details
  Hardcover: 448 pages
  Publisher: Harper (August 10th 2004)
  Language: English
 
ISBN-10: 0060558032
  ISBN-13: 978-0060558031
  Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  Shipping Weight:
1.7 pounds
  
  
  A noted naturalist's fascinating inquiry into
the life and death of animal species. Just about every species that has ever lived on earth is extinct. The trilobites,
which dominated the ocean floors for 300 million years, are gone. The last of the dinosaurs was wiped out by a Mount
Everest-sized meteorite that slammed into the earth 65 million years ago. The great flying reptiles are gone, and so are
the marine reptiles, some of them larger than a humpback whale. Before humans crossed the Bering land bridge some 15,000
years ago, North America was populated by mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and cave bears. They too are MIA.
Passenger pigeons once flew over North America in flocks that numbered in the billions; the last one died in
1914.
  
  In this book you will meet creatures that were driven to
extinction even more recently, as well as some that were brought back from the brink. You will even encounter animals
not known to exist until recently -- an antidote to extinction.
  
  
  Amazon.com Review
 
In No Turning Back, Richard Ellis makes a survey of animals that have disappeared through
anthropogenic or other means. "Everybody knows what extinction is," he writes, but theories of why it happens are
hampered by "the inability of biologists and paleontologists to agree on exactly what a species is." Still, Ellis
manages to pick perfect examples to show how extinctions happen in the natural world, and how humans unnecessarily
contribute to some of them. It's hard to look at the careful illustrations of long-gone animals such as the Irish elk,
Steller's sea cow, quagga, or even the dodo, without feeling that the world would be better with some of them around.
Ellis also introduces little-known species currently close to extinction, such as the spot-tailed quoll, the bilby, and
the saiga, to add to the list of well-known threatened animals such as the white rhinocerous or the orangutan. Ending on
an optimistic note, Ellis tells how some animals have been brought back from the brink of extinction through hard work,
careful conservation, and lots of money. A master of the shocking ecological fact, and a thoroughly accessible and
engaging narrator of the natural world, Ellis has succeeded in explaining extinction and its causes by showing readers
what there was to love about creatures long gone. - Therese Littleton
  
  From Publishers Weekly
 
In his latest book, multitalented marine naturalist Ellis (Imagining Atlantis; The Empty
Ocean) broadens his attention from life in the oceans to an examination of the process of animal extinction. Readers
will be tantalized by brief descriptions of many odd species—some extinct, many endangered. They will learn about
the 50-foot-long megatooth shark; the 10-foot-tall duck known as Bullockornis, or "the demon duck of doom"; and the tiny
leaf deer of southeast Asia, so named "because it was small enough to wrap its body in a single large leaf." Ellis
condenses a century of research and postulation into one comprehensive volume of extinction; additionally, he discusses
recently discovered species ("The Anti-Extinctions") and offers future extinction-prevention techniques ("Rescuing
Animals from Oblivion"). Even with much compelling material, however, the book is not wholly successful. Although Ellis
presents some fascinating theories (among them, he casts doubt on Christianity's placement of "humans confidently
perched on the top rung" of the animal ladder), the text as a whole fails to develop a focused message, and lacks the
intrigue necessary to sustain reader interest throughout. While certainly a home run on information, this volume proves
only a single on entertainment. 70 line drawings. 
  
 
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