Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird

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JUNIPER, TONY Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
Atria Books/Simon & Schuster Inc, NY, 2002, 1st Ed 1st Pr. Hardbound. This book examines the slow and publicized extinction of the titular bird, which vanished from the planet forever on December 1, 2000, in Brazil. Known as ''the world's loneliest bird,'' the Spix's Macaw serves an example, the author writes, of what gets lost when human obsession and greed for the exotic and rare drives us past reason. Illustrated with color photographs. 287 Pgs. Description text copyright 2006 ISBN: 074347550X. Nr Fine in Good DJ. Gift dedication in ink inside front cover. Name blacked out. Paper DJ. 8vo..

Offered for EUR 16.85 = appr. US$ 23.66 by: Booksforcomfort.com - Book number: 11140
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