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Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
Bloomsbury USA
July 2008
On Sale: July 8, 2008
304 pages ISBN: 1596912995 EAN: 9781596912991 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world’s
great predators has upset the delicate balance of the
environment, and what their disappearance portends for the
future, by an acclaimed science journalist.
It wasn’t so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous
fish and flying raptors ruled the peak of nature’s food
pyramid. Not so anymore. All but exterminated, these
predators of the not-too-distant past have been reduced to
minor players of the modern era. And what of it? Wildlife
journalist William Stolzenburg follows in the wake of
nature’s topmost carnivores, and finds chaos in their
absence. From the brazen mobs of deer and marauding
raccoons of backyard America to streamsides of Yellowstone
National Park crushed by massive herds of elk; from urchin-
scoured reefs in the North Pacific to ant-devoured islands
in Venezuela, Stolzenburg leads a startling tour through
bizarre, impoverished landscapes of pest and plague. For
anyone who has seldom given thought to the meat-eating
beasts so recently missing from the web of life, here is a
world of reason to think again.
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