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The sixth extinction : journeys among the lost and left behind / Terry Glavin.
- Title
- The sixth extinction : journeys among the lost and left behind / Terry Glavin.
- Author
- Glavin, Terry, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2007.
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| Text | Request in advance | QH75 .G58 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 318 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A survey of the social "extinctions" taking place in the modern world draws on a variety of scientific disciplines to reveal how advances in globalization are contributing to the losses of languages as well as diverse cultural ways of living, seeing, andunderstanding.
- Uniform Title
- Waiting for the macaws
- Alternative Title
- Waiting for the macaws
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published as: Waiting for the macaws : and other stories from the age of extinctions / Terry Glavin. Toronto : Viking Canada, 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-306) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Prologue : The valley of the black pig : a village -- Night of the living dead : a tiger -- Waiting for the macaws : a bird -- The last giants in the river of the black dragon : a fish -- The ghost of the woods : a lion -- Drifting into the maelstrom : a whale -- An apple is a kind of rose : a flower -- The singing tree of Chungliyimti : a world -- Epilogue : The revenge of Kali : a god -- Notes and sources -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780312362317
- 0312362315
- LCCN
- ^^2007001068
- OCLC
- 78071799
- SCSB-10455360
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library