Code: 04805811

Message from Martha

Name: Message from Martha
Brand: Bloomsbury Natural History
SKU: 04805811
Price: 25.77 EUR
Availability: BackOrder

by Mark Avery

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Bloomsbury Natural History, 2014
More about this

25.77 €

Availability:

50/50

We think title might be available. Upon your order we will do our best to get it within 6 weeks.
We search the world

Availability alert

Add to wishlist

English in Films for Classroom Teachers & Study at Home Students: Catch Me If You Can, The Matrix, The Firm, The Insider, Lord of War, ESL Exercises
57.92 €
Buy
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2
18.99 € -11 %
Buy
Bridging the Communication Gap
19.81 €
Buy
Rising Of The Shield Hero Volume 20: Light Novel
12.83 € -16 %
Buy
Sports Vision
77.44 €
Buy
Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner
17.14 € -6 %
Buy
Blood on the Tracks 1
11.91 € -18 %
Buy
I Who Have Never Known Men
9.85 € -27 %
Buy
Twisted Emotions
16.12 € -1 %
Buy
Other Words for Home
16.22 € -24 %
Buy
CMake Cookbook
64.09 €
Buy
Autoboyography
10.36 € -12 %
Buy
Problem Solving and Reasoning Ages 5-7
5.54 € -9 %
Buy
Working with Coders
46.52 €
Buy
Men of Honour
89.36 €
Buy
Elements of Modern Architecture
54.43 €
Buy
Spilled Water
7.69 € -34 %
Buy
No Surrender: My Thirty Year War
21.87 € -22 %
Buy
Problems from Kant
258.95 €
Buy
Employment and Health Benefits
78.67 €
Buy
Epic in Film
62.96 €
Buy
Fashionary Bag Design
31.22 € -23 %
Buy
Health Care and Information Ethics
57.92 €
Buy
Martian
15.60 € -13 %
Buy
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
8.52 € -29 %
Buy
Complete X-Files
35.02 € -18 %
Pre-order
Indice anteopometricos
38.72 € -9 %
Buy
Waldwege
16.22 € -4 %
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

Availability alert

We will watch availability for you

Enter your e-mail address and once book will be available,
we will send you a message. It's that simple.

You get 63 loyalty points

Book synopsis

September 1st, 2014 marked the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history - the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct on that fateful day, with the death in Cincinnati Zoo of Martha - the last of her kind. This book tells the tale of the Passenger Pigeon, and of Martha, and of author Mark Avery's journey in search of them. It looks at how the species was a cornerstone of the now much-diminished ecology of the eastern United States, and how the species went from a population that numbered in the billions to nil in a terrifyingly brief period of time. It also explores the largely untold story of the ecological annihilation of this part of America in the latter half of the 19th century, a time that saw an unprecedented loss of natural beauty and richness as forests were felled and the prairies were ploughed, with wildlife slaughtered more or less indiscriminately. Despite the underlying theme of loss, this book is more than another depressing tale of human greed and ecological stupidity. It contains an underlying message - that we need to re-forge our relationship with the natural world on which we depend, and plan a more sustainable future. Otherwise more species will go the way of the Passenger Pigeon. We should listen to the message from Martha.