Melanie Challenger is the author of Galatea, an award-winning first collection of poems, and co-author, with Zlata Filipovic, of Stolen Voices, a history of twentieth-century conflict compiled through war diaries. She has received a British Council Darwin Award for her work. She lives in the Scottish Highlands.
"On Extinction is a strange hybrid of travelogue and natural
science, misted over with a wanderer's lonesome observations of a
world in the process of disappearing . . . Amid this solid
research, there is fine and truly poetic prose." —The New York
Times Book Review
"A deep look at the human capacity for extinction twined with
roamings to the far ends of the earth, from poet and fledgling
natural historian Challenger . . . She has a rangy curiosity that
extends well past ignorance and alienation as the sole agents of
the man-made extinction . . . A formidable inquiry into why the
marvels of nature and the distinctiveness of cultures are
constantly imperiled."—Kirkus Reviews
"Erudite and impassioned, Melanie Challenger's On Extinction is a
ruminative examination on the way our 21st century world is
changing quickly . . . A timely and important book, On Extinction
will make you think, one of the finest things a book can do." —The
Dallas Morning News
"[Challenger] has a keen awareness of how the past is layered
beneath the present, and how transient both natural and human
systems are... [On Extinction] lets the reader observe a creative
and intelligent mind at work on problems that face all of us."
—Columbus Dispatch
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