Research Catalog

Title

Watching, from the edge of extinction / Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns.

Author

Stearns, Beverly Peterson, 1946-

Publication

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stearns, S. C. (Stephen C.), 1946-

Description

xv, 269 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm

Summary

"In this book, Beverly and Stephen Stearns tell the stories of people who have worked directly with disappearing species in Europe, Africa, North America, and Oceania. They are stories of passion and commitment, of competence and selflessness. They are also stories that alarm, for even as unheralded heroes are working to reverse what often seems to be a species' inevitable march toward extinction, incompetent or self-interested parties are often working against them."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Case studies
• Fallstudiensammlung
• Artensterben
• Artenschutz
• Aussterben
• Nature conservation > Case studies
• Endangered species > Case studies
• Extinction (Biology) > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.

Contents

1. Extinctions in Perspective -- 2. Empty Shells -- 3. As the Hawaiian Crow Flies ... -- 4. Darwin, Ulysse, Rousseau -- and Brutus, Too? -- 5. Britain's Large Blue: A Star Is Reborn -- 6. Monachus Monachus, in Retreat -- 7. Introducing the Nile Perch -- 8. Handle with Care: A Wild Dog Story -- 9. SOS for a Salamander and Its Springs -- 10. Islands of the Living Dead -- 11. The Echo of Their Song -- 12. Watching, from the Edge of Extinction -- The Tropical Biology Association.

ISBN

• 0300076061
• 9780300076066
• 9780300084696
• 0300084692
• 058535104X
• 9780585351049

LCCN

98034087

OCLC

• ocm39464856
• 39464856
• SCSB-571672

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library